City Manager makes $800K per year

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Californ-yah, knows how to party. . .

This might not sound like a lot to you but Bell is one of the poorest cities in L.A. County. U.S. Census data from the year 2000 puts Bell's per-capita income at $9,905 while the Los Angeles Almanac more recently estimates it at above $12,000
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The Los Angeles Times reported last week that the city manager of Bell, Robert Rizzo, receives a salary of $787,637 as the top bureaucrat in a city of about 38,000 residents, mostly Latinos. Bell's Police Chief Randy Adams makes $457,000 a year while Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia gets $376,288.
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Nice.
 
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Managing a city is hard work. You have to...meet with people and manage stuff. You know hard stuff.
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Holy crap. What a rip off. Soo, it's harder to run that city of 38 k than the entire country?
 
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The Prez has a bunch of secretaries to do stuff for him plus his own private jet and helicopter. That poor manager probably only has one secretary and maybe a city car. I'd bet his car is an Impala or Taurus, not even fancy like the limo the Prez has. Plus he probably has to drive himself and Obama has a driver. What a tough life. :rolleyes:
 
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this was just tweeted by Jane Wells (a CNBC Cali correspondent)

Overpaid Bell officials lose severance, keep pension. Now recall may start of city councilmembers who work part time, make $100k.
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Part time Council Members make a $100K, Holy Mackerel!
 
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That is absolutely outrageous! And evidently he thought he'd get away with it -- I mean, how hard is it for people to go look that up? Someone was going to find out.
 
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dude is quoted that he would have made more in the private sector. i kid you not. if they fire him they have to give him a severance and his retirement. if he retires he immediately, he starts drawing a pension of $620K a year for the rest of his life (indexed to wage increases of course).
 
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and how it happened

Bell council used little-noticed ballot measure to skirt state salary limits - latimes.com

A state law enacted in 2005 limits the pay of council members in "general law" cities, a category that includes most cities in Southern California. That law was passed in reaction to the high salaries that leaders in South Gate had bestowed on themselves earlier in the decade.

But the year that law passed, the Bell City Council authorized a special election with only one item on the ballot — a measure calling for Bell to convert to a "charter" city. The move was billed as one that would give the city more local control. The ballot language included no mention of the effect the change would have on council members' salaries.
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they are basically thieves and should be treated as such
 
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news articles don't mention Rizzo's political affiliation, which means he's a democrat
 
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lawgator1 said:
Knew someone would make that utterly asinine observation. Glad you did not disappoint.
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Did not find history, but of the three districts (two state, 1 federal), all three current office holders are democrats.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Knew someone would make that utterly asinine observation. Glad you did not disappoint.
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How is it asinine when the vast majority of the press acts like greed is monopolized by republicans and business owners?
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The police chief there was making more than the police chief of LA.

I blame these guys for robbing the town; however, the people that live there also hold some responsibility. They did not watch or care about what happened in their local government.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Knew someone would make that utterly asinine observation. Glad you did not disappoint.
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you are are really arguing that a city with 5% white people isn't going to vote primarily democratic?
 
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Party affilitation has nothing to do with this. Its outrageous, no matter and invoking it needlessly distracts from the point.
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lawgator1 said:
Party affilitation has nothing to do with this. Its outrageous, no matter and invoking it needlessly distracts from the point.
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just as party affiliation has nothing to do with greed, but I haven't heard you *****ing about Bush and cronies being blistered roundly and routinely for their introduction of greed to America.

In fact, I am 100% certain that you push the Olbermann dumbass talking about about greed and Wall Street doing a dance on the little man in America. It's just as senseless then, too.
 
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