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Other people’s money

In an astonishing display of arrogance, Murrieta’s City Council has again thumbed its nose at taxpayers by ignoring a cap on public pay.

In 2010, more than two-thirds of Murrieta voters passed Measure E, which capped the total compensation of top administrators at 2.5 times the median family or household income in the city. The measure’s easy passage came after news broke that the city of Bell’s council was paying its city manager $800,000 a year and secretly raising property taxes to fund high salaries for a host of city officials.  More . . .

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