Last week the Register’s Watchdog Teri Sforza did a piece on members of the opaque Metropolitan Water District Board who had racked up huge travel expenses soldiering onward for you and me in the great water wars.
She's baaaaack!
Who’s well up on the list? Fullerton’s representative, Jim Blake, for one. Another is Fullerton resident wannabe Linda Ackerwoman who lives in Irvine but tried to carpetbag her way to fame and forune as our Assembly representative. This egregious pair racked up bills of $18,302 and $13,356 respectively, in 2009-2010. The biggest line item was lodging in for both.
Read the rest of “On the Water Gravy Train. Prima Ballerina Edition.”
The water game is rife with examples of the abuse of the tax dollar – some even techincally legal. I think that the most important legislation needed in California right now is to create a centralized reporting for all elected officials and public employees where their TOTAL compensation including benefits is reported in a single place. Between the layers of perks and benefits, and the combining virtually simultaneous “stipends” I think that the public would be truly appalled with the truth.