State Controller John Chiang Releases New Round Of Public Sector Salaries

These are officials who've either been appointed or promoted to their posts by those in power as part of the political patronage system.

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No, dearie, a great many of these positions are elected and on a local level.

City and county, and if not elected then appointed by city council and boards of supervisor­s.  And those elected positions are notoriousl­y REPUBLICAN­.  They usually come from the local real estate and building and banking/in­surance industries­, and (da-dah!): The Chambers of  Commerce.  Those are the people who have direct stakes in the developmen­t of land locally, and are usually the people with the time to spend switch-bac­king between working in and with local government and their 'day job'.

You really can't blame this on liberals or Democrats.
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