Will We Ever See This Type Of Fiscal Activism Around The Way?
on July 26th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Cities like Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, D.C., Chicago, Atlanta have to stop keeping the same bums in office and do what the people in this city are doing.
“BELL, Calif. (AP) – Several hundred angry residents from a modest blue-collar Los Angeles suburb marched Sunday to call for the resignation of the mayor and some City Council members in a protest sparked by the sky-high salaries of three recently departed administrators.
The residents of the city of Bell marched to Oscar’s Korner Market and Carniceria, owned by Mayor Oscar Hernandez, then to his home, demanding that he reduce his own six-figure compensation or quit.
They then did the same with some members of the City Council, with many marchers wearing T-shirts that read ‘My city is more corrupt than your city.’”
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“The protest was organized by Bell Association to Stop the Abuse, a group founded after the Times reported that Bell’s city manager, police chief and assistant city manager were all being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, with city manager Robert Rizzo collecting a check of $787,637. All three resigned on Friday.”
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I’m always glad to see us turn out in significant numbers when we protest neighborhood violence. But what about the economic terrorism that has kept our cities hostage for decades?
