SF Elected Offiicals Take "Symbolic" Pay Cut

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, the Board of Supervisors, and other top-level officials will take a 2.45 percent pay cut this fiscal year. Which is more "symbolic" than anything, because they are and forever will be richer than most of you, creating the Green League of Justice out in Hunter's Point, having inane cake sales during workdays to get face time on the webs, mistaking themselves as wildly interesting in that special way that people who can buy property and have no credit card debt can. But we're not bitter. Anyway. According to SF Chronicle, "The decrease is largely symbolic and won't save the city much money. But under the City Charter, whenever city workers take a pay cut - as many unions did this year to help the city bridge a $438 million budget deficit - the elected officials must take a 'comparable' decrease." Before this recent pay decrease, Chron goes on to report, Newsom made $252,885, which is "the most of any elected official". When asked if Gavin would lose his shit over the cut, San Francisco spokesman Nathan Ballard said it was all good. "What's fair is fair," Ballard said, probably going on to say, "In fact, he wipes his bottom with pre-moistened $100 bills that are in a convenient resealable pack next to his toilet."