For at least a decade, officials in Bell arbitrarily required some businesses to make payments to the city totaling tens of thousands of dollars annually, in at least one case threatening a business owner with closure if he failed to comply, according to interviews and records reviewed by The Times.
The more I read about the city of Bell, the more I wonder. It seems clear that they weren’t just corrupt, but blatantly so. How did this go on for as long as it did?
Edited to add: I missed this. The Bell city council met last night. This is significant, since the council failed to make a quorum at their last meeting:
one council member resigned, another failed to make bail and two called in sick
And what was the primary piece of business at last night’s meeting?
When the council finally was able to get to the agenda, the members present unanimously agreed to accept the recall petition signatures and to hold a recall election in conjunction with the regular election on March 8, 2011. At that time, voters will be asked if Hernandez and Council members Artiga, Jacobo and Mirabal should be removed from office.
You’re going down in flames, you tax-fattened hyenas!
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