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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Guess the Party? A Game for All Ages.

Ann Coulter has noted something that I am proud to have commented on earlier when it was revealed that the poor town of Bell was paying it's city government officials outrageous salaries. 

Here's Ann:
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....

Not only that, but Rizzo was entitled to 28 weeks off a year for vacation and sick leave....

"But that's not all" as they say in the commercials:
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.

Now here's where you get to play the game: guess how many newspaper stories named the party affiliations of these officials. Was that too easy?
According to Nexis, there have been more than 300 news stories reporting on the Bell scandal. Guess how many mentioned the party affiliation of the corrupt government bureaucrats?

One. Yes, just one. 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
You see folks, if you see an outrage committed by a public official, and the MFM does not mention the party affiliation, the perp is ALWAYS a Democrat. You can bet your life on it.  Thieves cover for each other.

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