Just keeping up with the Joneses..
The lone dissenter is also the one pushing for the back room dealing, Hispanic-so-we-can't-touch-him Mayor of San Jose, Ron Gonzalez, to relinquish his duties because he lied and gave garbage contractors an $11 million contract behind the city council's back.
SAN JOSE (KRON)-- City councilman Dave Cortese, who is running for mayor, is asking people to sign petitions calling for further investigation into the mayor's secret deal with the city's garbage contractor, Norcal Waste Systems.
More than 1,000 people reportedly signed the petition in what some political observers say is a kind of barometer as to public confidence in the mayor.
The City Council is expected to censure, or formally reprimand Gonzales on Tuesday. Last week, an independent investigator said it appeared Gonzales violated city policies by repeatedly not disclosing what he knew about the deal until months later.
And this -- http://www.morganquitno.com/cit05pop.htm -- is a link to the site that ranks San Jose as the nation's safest city among those with a population over 500,000 people. So what are the officers being paid more for? Job risk is low in San Jose. And, the cops don't make the city safe, people do.
Highest paying job for only a H.S. diploma ??
The public employees' unions showed their power in the election and the politicians are listening. Deals like this will make the state's financial problems make the situation in San Diego look like child's play.
I find it really hard to justify paying them more than an engineer. An engineer has a far higher probability of actually earning that wage.