See Spot Write: Laguna Honda Hospital Gets Handsy

This is the level of competency the City of San Francisco

pays out $132,000 to its Communication Director at Laguna Honda.

He must have received a degree in Braille Communications.

2009 San Francisco City Workers Pay.

CITY RANK 3572

EMPLOYEE NAME MARC SLAVIN

JOB CLASS DESCRIPTION SPECIAL ASSISTANT XVI

REG PAY $132,518.79

TOTAL PAY $132,518.79

I saw one really annoying guy getting under the skin of another really annoying guy.

Well played.

Generic:

I'll give you that perhaps both are annoying but only one

was annoying and professionally and socially clueless.

The question of where and how Mr. Slavin was raised comes

up and did he intermingle with other primates?

Mark Slavin's an asshole. Laguna Honda mistreats its patients and sucks up money for bullshit administrators. Noyes showed restraint - anyone else woulda busted Slavin's candy-ass jaw for his crap (and deservedly so!)

Noyes is awesome, he doesn't take shit from anyone, and he exposes these overpaid jerkoffs for the fools they really are. Too bad we're paying Slavin's inflated salary - his bullshit wouldn't play for very long in the non-subsidized world.

Hyper entitled bureaucrats like Slavin at LHH, Vinson at DTIS, St. Croix at Ethics, Badiner and Nikitas at Planning, the entire operations of the Library, Fine Arts Museums and Rec and Park are in place to ensure that all lucrative contracts are let to the properly politically vetted vendors, that the attentions of the agencies are devoted to the properly politically vetted constituencies through favorable treatment or private access to public facilities, to the exclusion of the non sanctified, and that government of San Francisco can be used as an enriching experience for those willing to spend unprecedented amounts of money in citywide elections. Bloomberg is the only candidate to spend the order of magnitude per voter that Newsom and Brown have.

Now that these six figure entrenched bureaucrats are being challenged by San Franciscans who participate in rather than buy democracy, they are beginning to go off the rails. Witness Newsom's efforts at Ethics to eliminate the city ban on dual office holding and shutting down on responding substantively to sunshine requests, so that he might appoint an acting interim mayor to serve out the last year of his term, lest the dirty stinky progressives get control of Room 200.

Progressives have our faults, to be sure. But the sheer scale of the vacuuming up of San Francisco's tax dollars into the pockets of the already rich should unite us all against this ongoing scam.

-marc