A homeowner in El Segundo posted the salaries of the overpaid cops in his town, on his blog – and the next thing he knew he was being harassed at work, by a police captain who makes over $300K a year, according to the LA Weekly.
The blogger, David Burns, is in charge of emergency preparedness at UCLA. After this incident, the same police captain turned in a public records request at UCLA to find out how much Burns makes. It turns out Burns makes a third of what the overpaid captain pulls in, and his salary has been cut by 23% due to budget problems.
It should be noted that El Segundo has only 16,000 residents and barely any crime, but their cops and firemen make hundreds of thousands of dollars.
As for the issue of the police captain harassing a private citizen blogger, it sure sounds familiar to us, here at the Orange Juice. Our blogger Sean Mill was also harassed at work when he asked Supervisor John Moorlach to find out why Liberal OC blogger Chris Prevatt was reading blogs at work.
Prevatt has been quoted in a Voice of OC article, where he complained that he couldn’t read the Voice of OC blog at work. Mill and I wondered why Prevatt was reading blogs on his work computer, since Prevatt is an employee of the Orange County Health Care Agency.
Prevatt’s fellow blogger, Dan Chmielewski, retaliated by calling Mill’s boss, and by harassing Mill’s company public relations consultant – calling her at her home office.
Chmielewski admitted to this in an email he sent me tonight, “I contacted the PR consultant for XXXX XXXX (Mill’s employer) by phone and by email. The CEO responded to one of my queries.”
Creepy, isn’t it? Chmielewski had no business contacting Mill’s CEO, and he surely had no business calling his employer’s PR consultant.
Somehow Chmielewski and Prevatt don’t get it. Prevatt is a public employee. Mill is not. End of story!
It should be noted though that Prevatt has written in the past that he does not work for the taxpayers. Oh yes you do Prevatt!
Out of control and overpaid public employees have become a menace to us all. Kudos to Burns for outing the actions of his El Segundo police force.
The bigger questions here is did the Captain and the other person involved submit the public records request during working hours. If the Captain is getting paid over-time while he sits at work reading blogs and submitting public records act requests while at work for the sole purpose of retaliation, then this guy needs to be fired. Put in your own records requests and get the information!
I’m failing to see how exposing one public employees salary is good, and inquiring into a different public employees salary is “harassment.”
Further, why does every story have to be about the ridiculous antics of the OC political blogosphere?
I guess you didn’t read the link.
The harassment was that the police officer called the blogger at his work.
Dan and Chris are paper tigers.
But, most puzzling about these two “Liberals” are their friendship with Martin Wiskol and Frank Mikedeit along with Matt and Laura Cunningham. Prevatt, who is openly homosexual and who OPENLY AND PUBLICLY discusses his HIV status, is personal friends with the “Latino Outreach” director for Prop 8?
Help me understand how one can “Challenge Orange County’s Right Wing Noise Machine” when they are joking and joshing with the machine’s operator on FACEBOOK?
The obvious conclusion is this: Niether have principles nor agendas outside personal enrichment. That’s why guys like Sean Mill, who openly question their illicit, illegal and frankly immoral tactics are a threat.
Chris should be blogging in Long Beach where he lives and plays.
And for Dan, who runs a “Boutique PR FIRM” out of his spare bedroom, he should just pull the trigger and sign up with the other homebased scammer Jubal!
Please DO NOT STOP.
Remember, it is ONE THING to “out” such information and data…another to do something about it.
The problem is that America is drowning in this kind of information but subsequent actions against these public pigs at the trough is much less prolific.
Here in The Peoples’ Republic Of Wisconsin cum Madistan, we have MASSIVE problems with these terrrible horrible people called “public employe” including pigs, firemen, teachers, prison guards, politicians, judges, and general public scum sewer rats. We are choking on taxes and, no matter what you’ve heard and/or read, Walker did not do NEARLY enough to stop these bastards. We are drowning in state and local recalls and government in Wisconsin is completely broken…working only for itself and to save itself…and its unions.
Don’t stop with reporting…DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
The arrogance of public sector has gone beyond anything even my 77 year old Mother can believe olr remember any more. A public servant who states he doesn’t work for the taxpayers is committing fraud in office and should be held feloniously accountable.
You may have come to the wrong blog? WE chased your governor away! Singing:
Scott Walker ran away! Walker ran away, away!
When Move-On reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled,
When Occupy began to shout,
The Cross-Eyed Governor chickened out….
http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2011/12/all-hail-scott-walker-coming-to-scott-baughs-office-thursday-afternoon-let-us-go-pay-him-homage/