I don't have much to say. I don't want to feel happy when somebody dies but I'm not sad either.
For what he put Michael through, I have no empathy for that man. If that makes me a bad person so be it.
Exactly!
I really hate this man! But come on guys you feel happy when someone die ? Is that what MJ was teaching us ? i don't think so.
He was a monster.. yes! but he also was a human! Sadly his dead don't bring Michael back to us.
God help Santa Barbara.He was also a mentor to most of the deputy district attorneys in our county,
I am going to mourn people who deserve to be mourned. This guy twisted the law, helped a family to create false allegations and would have had no qualms about putting MJ behind bars and making his children grow up without a father. And remember what Mesereau said about that it would have probably been a death sentence to Michael because he would have probably died in prison. Heck, one of the reasons he died was this persecution of almost 20 years. So no, I'm not going to pretend to be sad about the death of such a bastard, sorry if it hurts someone's sensitivity. I reserve my empathy for better people than this. Let people feel whichever way they want to feel about him!
RedMaryFlint;4054664 said:A very cruel and destructive man.
God help Santa Barbara.
County Releases Pension Data
152 Former Employees Receive More Than $100,000 Per Year
The average pensioner getting money from the Santa Barbara County Employee Retirement System (SBCERS) receives $2,881.85 a month, or $34,582.21 a year, according to data provided by SBCERS last week.
Of the 2,904 people who receive a pension through SBCERS, 152 get more than $100,000 per year and 25 people — including ten who worked in the Sheriff’s Department — receive more than $150,000. Of the top 25, eight served as the heads of their respective departments at one time of another. Six retired prosecutors from the DA’s office are also in the top 25. The highest name on the list is longtime District Attorney Tom Sneddon, who rakes in a whopping $224,672.64 every year.
The information was made available after a public records request from multiple newspapers. Recent court decisions require retirement systems to identify members receiving retirement allowances.
On the other end of the spectrum, 167 people receive less than $500 a month. There are 28 people who receive less than $100 a month.
Former County CEO Mike Brown collects $10,151.48 a month, or $121,817.76 annually. Attached at the bottom is a PDF of all SBCERS retirees, their monthly benefit, and their last employer.
Here is a list of the top 15 names on the list:
1. Tom Sneddon, $224,672.64
2. Ken Shemwell, $206,803
3. Jim Anderson, $206,448.12
4. Jim Thomas, $190,045.32
5. Norman Horsley, $189,666.24
6. Patrick McKinley, $189,497.76
7. Kenneth Pettit, $186,071.52
8. Thomas Martinez, $185,062.32
9. Jim Laponis, $184,982.88
10. R. Scott DeuPree, $183,598.32
11. Tom Franklin, $178,773
12. Joseph Smith, $171,805.80
13. Malvin Parr, $167,856
14. Frederick Olguin, $167,335.44
15. Russell Birchim, $164,575.08
Chief of Police Deborah Linden Deborah – Total RIPOFF! She is retiring and getting $160,000.00 a year for life ripping off San Luis Obispo taxpayers to pay her only 9 year term!
Deborah Linden, the San Luis Obispo police chief will retire in December after nine years on the job. Linden, 49,
She earns $160,394 in salary and an additional $73,821 in benefits, such as retirement and health care. Wow that is amazing to make that kind of money on a town that is broke.
She is leaving just in the middle of meassure A & B to repeal on mandatory binding arbitration and pension reform. Yet $160,000.00 a year for life and she is only 49 years old. That’s nothing, how many people are making minimum wage that are over 70 years old with no pension that can’t even think about retiring at all? Take a guess Doborah.
Mandatory binding arbitration is unfair and wrecking the city’s budget and chief Deborah Linden leaving and wanting her pension as if she was not already making $233,883.00 a year, didn’t she save her money and to walk away with $160,000.00 a year. Her she drove around all the trailer parks in San Luis Obispo and seen how many people are living on low fix incomes? Probably not but so, do you think she cares if an older couple making $15,000.00 a year pension on an old trailer without a single dollar more in their 70′s? The recession crisis is bad from these people stealing Cities and the State of California with their greedy pensions and it is terrible as many leave the State or leave the Cities paying their pension contributing nothing back. Se didn’t even liv ein San Luis Obispo anyway, so what good it is to pay her pension?
An outside arbitrator — someone who doesn’t live here, doesn’t know us and is not accountable to SLO voters — has arbitrarily decided SLO police officers should be given a 30% pay raise. It’s costing $2.5 million annually that the city doesn’t have, forcing the City Council to cut vital services.
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 7/31/2011 5:20:42 PM and is a permanent record located here: http://www.ripoffreport.com/city-gov...nden-0673a.htm.