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From our sponsors:

EXCLUSIVE TO ABO READERS, we have a SHOCKING special investigative report!

For the FIRST TIME EVER, courtesy of A BETTER OAKLAND, we bring you today NEVER BEFORE SEEN information about WHERE your TAX DOLLARS are going!!!

For years, many hardworking citizens have suspected that their ever increasing tax dollars are being SQUANDERED on BLOATED PUBLIC EMPLOYEE SALARIES! We believe that anger over the OUTRAGEOUS SUMS being paid to LAZY UNION WORKERS is one of the core causes of CITIZEN MELTDOWNS!

Now, here at A Better Oakland, we reveal THE SHOCKING TRUTH about the City of Oakland’s OBSCENE PAYROLLS.

Full report is available to paid subscribers only, but today we will offer you a taste of the SHOCKING SECRETS in our salary expose. Here is just a little of what you will see. No tricks! No gimmicks! No HIDDEN INCOME! No secret overtime.These are the REAL SALARIES of REAL CITY OF OAKLAND EMPLOYEES.

Get a glass of water and sit down before reading further, folks…it’s tough to take.

• CASE MANAGER I, PART-TIME, AGING/SENIOR AIDES: $23,949!!!!
• MAYORS PSE 14, PART-TIME: $22,585!!
• ACCOUNT CLERK II, CEDA: $$$38,329
• EARLY CHILDHOOD INSTRUCTOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $37,012
• MICROCOMPUTER SYSTEMS SPECIALIST I, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: $62,284

LIFEGUARD, PART-TIME, PARKS AND RECREATION: $5,247!!!

With salaries like these, who can be surprised about the meltdowns happening left and right?

From our sponsors:

One frustrated citizen got so fed up with the City Council’s corruption that she even tried calling in the ATF! Did it help? Sadly, no.

Heed her words, folks: You are being held captive by this Council, and nothing good can come of further interaction. Get out while you can, GO HOME AND RAISE YOUR BABIES, and perhaps if the ATF ever listens and our fair Council does find themselves in that “less comfortable bed,” we can resume our civic improvement efforts without endangering our mental health.

From our sponsors:

This local business owner has been driven to near madness by the Council’s shenanigans and incessant inability to LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE!

Happily for him, the Council, in a rare display of reason, saw the error of their ways and gave him what he wanted. (We think). Here’s to #WINNING!

From our sponsors:

Believe it or not, our research indicates that sometimes the meltdown can happen without even setting foot in City Hall.

Shocking, yes. But our special investigation has unearthed EXCLUSIVE public records proving it can happen!

Take, for example, the plight of one poor hills resident. A year ago, he sent the letter below outlining the clear, logic process by which he arrived at his anti-zoo position. His reasoning is hard to argue with. After all, no matter how much any of us might enjoy the zoo, I think we can all agree that it should not become a “center of the universe.”

Fast forward to a second letter, submitted a year later (the entirety of which is printed below). Gone are the carefully laid out arguments — the author has clearly, as so many of us have in the past, abandoned all hope of being listened to fairly, and has been reduced to incoherent spewing of venom.

So sad. Somebody get this guy some #tigerblood!

From our sponsors:

This poor doctor gets TEED OFF every time he comes down to City Hall! Most people would just deal with the problem by staying away, but not our fearless warrior! He endures the blood pressure spikes that come with any visit to Council Chambers so he can defend the rights of little old ladies to cross the street. Oakland is lucky to have such dedicated citizens!

Were you thinking of planting a tree in East Oakland? Well, now you know better. THERE ARE ALREADY TREES THERE!