[lbo-talk] Blame deficits on government employees - New database shows $12.2 billion in Bay Area public employee salaries - ContraCostaTimes.com

[Fernando Cassia]

"A hospital administrator in Alameda County, a deputy police chief in San Francisco and a physician 
in Santa Clara County grossed more than $500,000 each in pay last year — the top three 2009 
salaries in a database containing 200,000 public employees now available online."

"Count on us to keep updating this data often," said Pete Wevurski, the news group's managing 
editor. "It's vital in a democracy that taxpayers know how their money is being spent, particularly 
how much of that money goes to public employees."

"Disclosure of 2009 government salaries under the state Public Records Act comes three years after 
the California Supreme Court — in a case involving the Contra Costa Times — rejected privacy claims 
of employee unions and ruled that such data must be released"

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Let me know when those "upset taxpayers" start getting their torches and pitchforks...

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