My Way News - Calif. town outraged to learn of officials' pay
My Way News reports: "Residents in this modest blue-collar Los Angeles suburb where one in six lives in poverty were angry: Their city manager was getting paid more than President Barack Obama and the police chief more than the commander of the nearly 13,000-member LAPD. [...] Their mayor and three of their four council members, people they see every day at the grocery store or church, approved the contracts, and put an obscure measure on the ballot that allowed council members to pay themselves any amount of money. And they did..."

Comment: A shocking display of greed and avarice by elected officials. Their greed was matched only by their stupidity in thinking they would get away with it.