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Thread ID: 6874 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-05-23
2003-05-23 16:04 | User Profile
Complete Original Article At: [url=http://www.nj.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0408_BC_BRF--SupervisorsRaise&&news&newsflash-national]NJ.COM[/url]
**San Francisco supervisors get 300 percent pay raises
The Associated Press 5/22/03 12:32 AM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco supervisors will get $75,000 annual pay raises, catapulting them from relative paupers to the second-highest paid supervisors in California -- even as they mull cuts in city services.
Most of the 11 supervisors welcomed the 300 percent increase, from $37,585 to $112,320, and they may not have to take the political hit that can accompany such a hike.
In November, voters approved an increase in principle -- and on Monday the San Francisco Civil Service Commission acted generously on that mandate.
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Let's see.....In San Francisco taxpayers must pay for sex change operations for any city employee who wants one, and a lot do, They also provide full marriage benefits for not only homosexuals and lesbians, but for the transgendered. The city is a pit of corruption and payoffs, is deeply in dept and shutting down services to everyone except homosexuals, illegal aliens, and the homeless. Willie Brown is second only to Gray Davis in incompetance.
Yep sounds like they deserve a raise to me.
2003-05-23 16:29 | User Profile
Prime Example At: [url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/23/PSYCH.TMP]SFGATE.COM[/url]
**Street attack stuns visiting doctors Psychiatrists at S.F. convention get dose of reality on streets
Katherine Seligman, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, May 23, 2003
Members of the nation's largest psychiatric association discovered San Francisco's mentally ill homeless problem up close this week, as they stepped out of their annual convention and were surprised -- some say shocked -- by the legions of people living on the street.
The worst, however, came when an official of the American Psychiatric Association, a Baltimore doctor known for being an advocate for the indigent mentally ill, was assaulted by an apparently homeless man with a history of psychiatric problems.
Knocked unconscious by the seemingly random attack near Union Square on Sunday morning, the doctor spent the week recovering at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Geetha Jayaram, an associate professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the scientific program committee chairwoman of the psychiatric association, is expected to be released soon.
Police arrested Aaron Matthew Hull, 32, who has no local address and has a history of being detained for psychiatric evaluations, according to law enforcement sources. He was being held in the county jail on two felony counts of assault and battery and is scheduled to appear in court today to determine if he is competent to face charges.
The irony of the attack was not lost on the association's members and other convention goers, many of whom said that they'd been noting the large numbers of homeless people on the streets ever since they arrived Saturday. **
:thd: Yeah paying the political hacks more should help.
2003-05-23 17:25 | User Profile
America is definitely in that awkward stage.
2003-05-25 00:20 | User Profile
Any city with a mayor named "Willie" is already in trouble.