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Union representing Tacoma public works employees buys newspaper ads blasting budget cuts

A union representing City of Tacoma public works employees bought a $2,867 ad in today’s edition of The News Tribune to criticize City Manager T.C. Broadnax‘s 2013-14 budget plan that would slash the city’s streets funding.

LEWIS KAMB; Staff writer
Published: Nov. 12, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. PST
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A union representing City of Tacoma public works employees bought a $2,867 ad in today’s edition of The News Tribune to criticize City Manager T.C. Broadnax‘s 2013-14 budget plan that would slash the city’s streets funding.

The ad features a photo of the Pothole Pig — a figurine used as part of a regular Tacoma Weekly feature to identify neglected potholes — and states, ‘The Pothole Pig Is on the Loose in the City of Tacoma.”

Read more here: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2012/11/12/tacoma-union-representing-public-works-employees-buys-newspaper-ad-blasting-budget-cuts/

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