County Supervisors Want To Pad Their Cushy Bottoms With Huge Raises

You've got to admire their audacity. Amid a state budget crisis, unfilled county job vacancies, and a lack of adequate funding for county services, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is recommending they give themselves a 25 percent pay increase, boosting the elected officials' salaries to $143,838. They also want to give county sheriff Bill Kolender, who already pulls in $85,000 in pension from the city as the former police chief, a nearly 24 percent raise. I suppose it's hard work attending task force meetings with special interest groups and still have to live on their current $115,000-a-year salary. As supervisor Bill Horn stated about his current dire financial straits, "It is true we are elected, but nobody who got elected took a vow of poverty. We're not Franciscans." Show me a Franciscan who couldn't live on $115K and I'll build you a new airport on county land! Not to mention the laborer who earns $20,000, has kids and shares an apartment with two other families. Read more about this largesse in this Union-Tribune story.

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