| Job Openings At City Hall; 2 Positions Open; Title: City Council Member January 11, 2005 Editor, WatchOurCity.com Huntington Park, CA - Eight candidates vying for two City Council positions filed their candidate statements and have reportedly been certified by the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder's Office. The candidates are: Elba Guerrero, Ric Loya, Ed Escareno, Elba Romo, Reuben Lopez, Efren Martinez, Rebecca Avila and Andres "Andy" Molina. (click on each name to see Candidate Statement) Job Qualifications and Education: Evidently, none required. The less you know, the better for others to manipulate your council vote. A university degrees helps, but some grammar school would be nice. Base Salary: $35,686 per year salary; paid even if you don't show up to work, or even if you leave in the middle of a council meeting. Sometimes you can get away with a sneaky pay raise here and there when nobody's watching. Hours of Work: 6 to 8 hours per month; you can work more hours if you want to, specially if you are not gainfully employed elsewhere. You can claim you're a "Businessman" but nobody will believe you. Travel Bonus: $6,000 travel bonus per year, but you can increase it to $12,000 and nobody will say anything. Your salary will reach $45,000 and the city's voters won't mind because they won't know. Cell Phone Allowance: $200 per month. But you can increase it to $600 per month and the city's voters won't mind because they won't know. You can even use the cell phone to call your friends... or Loved Ones... here or in Mexico. Nobody will find out. Those that will know, like your future council colleagues, won't mind it, since its not their money your spending. If after two years they make an issue of your cell phone expenses, its probably best to just pay any questionable expenses you owe. Language Skills: It helps if you know little English, because the less you know, the better for others to manipulate your council vote. And the city will get its money's worth from the Spanish interpreter during council meetings. Pad your resume and claim you speak many languages. Nobody will check. Not in this community. Social Skills: You will make many new friends very quickly. Some will give you campaign donations while others will give you free Taxi rides. Once your in, others will give you free low-flush toilets that you give to residents to make it seem like you care. Some may promise help with your budding political career if only you can help them get a city contract... or two. You may even get a Sugar Daddy to help out with your campaign fundraising who will get 5 or 6 of his closest friends to donate to you, say, $72,000, all from the goodness of their hearts, and just because your a nice candidate. Just don't ask about the source of funds or Uncle Sam will be asking you some very unpleasant questions. All you have to do is vote as you are told by the M.A.N. Don't forget: the best and highest use of public funds may not always benefit the greatest public good and public interest. |
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