El Segundo City Payroll Gone Mad, featuring Charles Payne and Mike Robbins on Fox Business Network
El Segundo City Payroll Gone Mad, featuring Charles Payne and Mike Robbins on Fox-T1155
This video features a segment from the Fox Business Network Varney & Co. show that was broadcast on August 17, 2010. The segment is an interview of former El Segundo City Councilman Mike Robbins about the wildly excessive and unsustainable city employee salaries, especially those for the firefighter and police employees.
Note that all the salary figures quoted in the Fox interview are Total Earnings only, and DO NOT include the cost of benefits and CalPERS pension contributions. The much larger Total Compensation figures, which DO include benefits and pension contributions, are available from Mike Robbins at PublicSafetyProject.org.
This video is in part an answer to the totally discredited KCET SoCal Connected propaganda video by producer Karen Foshay titled, “Small Town, Big Oil” produced by Karen Foshay. That KCET video dishonestly and unfairly attacked Chevron and the very honorable City Councilman Carl Jacobson in a very classical news media hatchet-job.
Note that the Fox show was broadcast long before the KCET SoCal Connected propaganda video. The KCET video was based almost entirely on false statements made by fired El Segundo city manager Doug Willmore, whom I have learned is very likely a pathological liar and an unreliable person to use as a basis for any news report or video. In fact, I am quite certain that that Willmore’s habitual lying was one of multiple good cause reasons for which he was fired. The KCET video was also based in part on statements made by an out-of-town, anti-oil political activist that nobody in town has heard of before.
The Fox interview helps explain why the fire and police unions endorse candidates for City Council, and contribute thousands of dollars in cash, campaign mailers, and other campaign support to their approved candidates. The police and fire unions endorse and campaign for the candidates who will give them the biggest pay raises, no matter how excessive and unsustainable, and who will raise your taxes and fees to pay for it.
The fire and police unions are the primary cause of our financial problems in El Segundo, not Chevron, as the fire and police unions want us to believe.
Chevron is a taxpayer, and the fire and police unions are tax takers. Chevron pays plenty of taxes, and the fire and police unions take plenty of taxes – about $8 Million extra per year in wildly excessive and unsustainable salaries, benefits, and pensions. The city does not pay to provide city infrastructure and services on the massive 951-acre Chevron property that it pays a fortune to provide and maintain in the residential and other commercial and industrial areas of the city. In fact, for that reason Chevron’s taxes may actually be too high.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
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EL SEGUNDO CITY PAYROLL GONE MAD featuring CHARLES PAYNE & MIKE ROBBINS
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This is a special presentation of the Public Safety Project
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The following Fox Business Network Varney & Co. Show was broadcast on August 17, 2010
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Show Host Charles Payne interviewed former El Segundo City Councilman Mike Robbins
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The subject was the wildly Excessive & Unsustainable City Employee Salaries, especially for Firefighters & Police
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The wildly Excessive & Unsustainable Fire and Police Compensation & Pensions have been an ONGOING SCANDAL since at least June, 2010
In the following Fox Business show, all compensation figures are Total Earnings, NOT Total Compensation. They EXCLUDE Benefits and Pensions.
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Former El Segundo Police Chief David Cummings, who retired in 2009, was actually paid MORE than the $425,775 figure cited in the show
In 2009, El Segundo Police Chief David Cummings was paid $597,000 in Total Annual Compensation plus his Pension Income while working half-time for 11 weeks as Police Chief after his retirement
2009 POLICE OFFICER Annual Individual Total Compensation:
Average: $178,000
Maximum: $304,000
2009 FIREFIGHTER Annual Individual Total Compensation:
Average: $211,000
Maximum: $342,000
Number of Major Structure Fires per Year ( > $100,000 damage ):
2008: 1
2009: 0
2010: 1
2011: 1*
*Through April 30
Number of Paramedic Hospital Transports per year:
2008: 777
2009: 737
2010: 674
2011: 281*
*Through April 30
Number of Job Applications Submitted per Firefighter Job Opening in El Segundo in a Good Economy:
500 to more than 1,000
Number of Firefighter Union Members that Live in El Segundo:
ONE (Bryan Partlow, the one who sponsored Measure P)
The Fire & Police Unions have been behind efforts to RAISE TAXES on Businesses & RAISE FEES on Residents to pay for their huge pay raises given during the recession
The Fire & Police Unions were given more than 11% to 23% in pay raises
during the recession in their previous 3-year contracts, which were “negotiated” in secret . . .
. . . with City Council members they endorsed and provided with thousands of dollars in campaign support
The El Segundo Fire & Police Unions Contributed MORE THAN $10,900 to Mayor Eric Busch in 2008:
Fire Union: $5,447.23
Police Union: $5,491.05
TOTAL: $10,938.28
The Safety Unions got MILLIONS of EXTRA Tax Dollars per year in return for their ENDORSEMENTS & THOUSANDS of Dollars in Campaign Support
The Police Union Endorsed SCOTT HOUSTON and gave him a Large Campaign Contribution in 2010
The Police Union Endorsed SCOTT HOUSTON & CINDY MORTESEN in 2012, and sent an expensive endorsement campaign mailer to registered voters
SCOTT HOUSTON, CINDY MORTESEN, MARIE FELLHAUER, and CINDEE TOPAR — NEVER OPPOSED Measure P before starting their Campaigns and Seeing which way the Wind was Blowing
CARL JACOBSON, DAVE BURNS, and DAVID ATKINSON ALL ACTIVELY OPPOSED Measure P FROM THE BEGINNING
SCOTT HOUSTON, CINDY MORTESEN, MARIE FELLHAUER, and CINDEE TOPAR — NEVER OPPOSED the wildly Excessive & Unsustainable Firefighter and Police Union Salaries, Benefits, and Pensions . . .
. . . that have been costing El Segundo Taxpayers about $8 MILLION EXTRA PER YEAR
DAVE BURNS was an OUTSPOKEN ADVOCATE of COMPENSATION & PENSION REFORM from the BEGINNING
CARL JACOBSON has also worked for COMPENSATION & PENSION REFORM, but the Fired City Manager Doug Willmore followed Mayor Busch’s Direction, not the Council’s
The NEW 3-Year FIRE & POLICE UNION Contracts have NO SALARY REDUCTIONS
The NEW Contracts include 3 DIFFERENT TYPES OF PAY RAISES, & GUARANTEE NO LAYOFFS, EVEN if it BANKRUPTS the City . . .
. . . as the Fire & Police Unions BANKRUPTED the City of Vallejo, California
The City Budget is NOT “Structurally Balanced” as Mayor Busch, Councilman Fisher, and Fired City Manager Doug Willmore have Claimed
Otherwise, Mayor Busch and Councilman Fisher would not be trying to borrow $10 Million over 20 years to pay for Street Re-Surfacing and other ROUTINE Infrastructure Maintenance and Capital Improvements . . .
. . . that USED TO BE paid out of ordinary General Fund Revenues, before the Fire and Police Unions Ratcheted-Up their Compensation & Pensions, and claimed that money as their own
Scott Houston has been in LOCK-STEP with BOTH the Fire and Police Unions, promoting their political and financial agendas at City Council meetings
The Fire and Police Unions want TAX and FEE INCREASES to pay for their WILDLY EXCESSIVE Salaries, Benefits, and Pensions
That is why the Fire & Police Unions have been behind the Chevron Shakedown for $10 MILLION in new taxes per year, as newly released Public Record City emails show
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Scott Houston is OUT OF STEP with our Community
Scott Houston is in LOCK-STEP with the FIRE & POLICE UNIONS
Marie Fellhauer, Cindee Topar, & Susan Truax endorsed Scott Houston in 2010
Marie Fellhauer is a POLICE UNION MEMBER in Los Angeles . . .
. . . and will likely represent the local Police & Fire Unions, not Voters & Taxpayers
Cindee Topar was Campaign Manager for a FIRE UNION MEMBER
Topar is an official in a MILITANT UNION that TARGETS THE CUSTOMERS
For years, Cindy Mortesen has failed to show up for work in the El Segundo City Clerk’s Office
Mortesen works full-time in the Redondo Beach City Clerk’s Office, BUT Collects 2 Government Pay Checks
Please vote for Fiscal Responsibility, Transparency, and Control by Voters, . . .
. . . NOT Control by FIRE & POLICE UNIONS . . .
. . . that have been LOOTING the PUBLIC TREASURY . . .
. . . of the City they are Sworn to Protect.
Please VOTE FOR Carl Jacobson, David Atkinson, & Dave Burns
Please VOTE FOR Lisa Wood for City Clerk for more Transparency
Election Day is April 10, 2012 in El Segundo
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This has been a video production by Michael D. Robbins of the Public Safety Project
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