Posted on 08/11/2010 3:00:07 PM PDT by Syncro
LET'S PLAY 'SPOT THE DEMOCRAT'!
August 11, 2010
In the greatest party-affiliation cover-up since the media tried to portray Gary Condit as a Republican, the media are refusing to mention the party affiliation of the thieving government officials in Bell, Calif.
There have been hundreds of news stories about Bell city officials' jaw-dropping salaries. In this poor city on the outskirts of Los Angeles, where the per capita annual income is $24,800 a year, the city manager, Robert Rizzo, had a salary of $787,637.
That's about twice what the president of the United States makes. (To be fair, Rizzo was doing a better job.)
Rizzo was the highest-paid government employee in the entire country, not counting Maxine Waters' husband -- pending further revelations. With benefits, his total annual compensation, according to the Los Angeles Times, came to $1.5 million a year.
Alerted to the Bell situation, the White House quickly added the Bell city manager to the list of jobs saved by its stimulus plan.
Not only that, but Rizzo was entitled to 28 weeks off a year for vacation and sick leave. To put that in perspective, that's almost as much vacation time as public school teachers get!
Reached in Spain, even Michelle Obama was outraged.
Rizzo responded to the anger over his preposterous salary by saying: "If that's a number people choke on, maybe I'm in the wrong business. I could go into private business and make that money."
(If he wants to grab one of those private-sector jobs that pays $1.5 million for 24 weeks of work, may I suggest the entertainment industry?)
Good luck to him. After leaving Bell, Rizzo will be lucky to land a job at Taco Bell. Before being anointed the King Tut of Bell, Rizzo was the city manager of Hesperia, Calif., where he was overpaid only to the tune of $78,000 a year.
The police chief, Randy Adams, was making $457,000 -- $770,046 including benefits. The assistant city manager, Angela Spaccia, had a $376,288 salary, with a total compensation package of $845,960. Being just an assistant city manager, Angela had to pay for her own yacht.
After the Los Angeles Times reported the stratospheric government salaries in little Bell, and the people of the town revolted, the millionaire government employees all resigned.
That'll show 'em! Oops, except upon their resignations, they qualified for lifetime pensions worth, by some estimates, more than $50 million.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
Ah, Ann. I laughed, I cried — I really cried at the last sentence.
The one newspaper to cough up party affiliations, The Orange County Register, admitted that the corrupt officials were all Democrats only in response to reader complaints about the peculiar omission.
Lots of news stories on the scandal in Bell used the word "Democrat" or "Democratic." But that was only to say that the DEMOCRATIC attorney general of California, Jerry Brown, who is running on the DEMOCRATIC ticket for governor, is investigating the Bell officials' salaries.
So we know the media are aware of party affiliations. They just chose not to mention it when it would require them to identify shockingly corrupt government officials as Democrats
Howie of course, writes about Massachusetts, but the Bay Colony is probably not the absolute worst, and each of the other 56 states has the exact same problem. Howie dishes the dirt every day on who's getting Huge salaries, the rampant nepotism that includes entire families down to third cousins, HUGE (50-60 Grand MINIMUM ... $200 Thousand ++++ MAX) pensions, and the astronomical and always increasing numbers of people on the government payroll at the local and state level.
Of course, Massachusetts has been under total Democrat control for decades.
I knew a young man - a boy really - who, in his twenties, no education or training whatsoever, was given a real hackorama flashdance to the top of the DSS in Boston. 80 Grand and it was part time at best. If I hadn’t known the guy and his family PERSONALLY I wouldn’t have believed Howie’s story about him when he broke it. It’s what the press is SUPPOSED to be doing.
Mug shot from recent DUI arrest. No, he's not dead. Too young for a pension, too drunk to employ. He hasn't worked a day since Mitt forced him to resign as big dig boss.
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