Coup at FOP Fails

Board Meeting today and some rumors started flying:

• Off topic but important: There is a FOP Board meeting today where Dougherty is rumored to make a motion to have Shields step down. Please remember Dougherty hired and refuses to fire Primary Counsel for FOP Paul Geiger, who is behind a lot of the problems plaguing the FOP.
• The coup is under way at the FOP Board meeting. Bye bye mikey. All the rats have turned on you.

A lot of fireworks, and then...:

• Maybe Dougherty doesn't have the stones to be FOP President. Afraid he did not have the votes he didn't call for Shields resignation. Shields said he did not know he had to send the letter. Donahue and Aguilar reminded Mike they told him to send the letter. Mike called them liars. One Board member says Shields is a idiot but Dougherty should have known better and e should be thrown out of the office. Great theatrics much like our city council. The whole Board s an embarrassment.
• No coup at the FOP today. Everyone on the board talked a good game but when it was all said and done, Kevin Graham was the only trustee to initiate charges against the President and he didn't have the votes.

So nothing until the General Meeting coming up with the potential for a bunch of loud talk and irritated coppers.

Fran Spielman and Frank Main add Rahm's voice to the mix, carrying water for City Hall:

• For the first time, Fraternal Order of Police President Mike Shields is apologizing to his members for paperwork mistakes that threaten to deny rank-and-file Chicago Police officers a retroactive pay raise.
  
  The Chicago Police contract expired on June 30, 2012. Shields missed an earlier deadline to notify the city he intended to terminate the old contract and negotiate a new one.
  
  So the contract automatically rolled over for another year — and unionized officers won’t automatically receive a retroactive pay raise for the first year after the contract expired.
  

It's like a giant soap opera, all paid for with our dues money. These are supposed to be adults looking out for 9,500 coppers. Time for a wholesale change?