The Bell (CA) City Council disaster is changing hour by hour.

The Mayor, who last week LOUDLY defended the $800,000 annual salary of the City manager and the $450,000 annual salary for the Police Chief, today said the pay was outrageous, and that the $8,000 a month fees he was taking for one meeting a month will be stopped immediately.

Between the LA Times, and the John and Ken (KFI-LA) Show, the heat is way too much for the City Council. They officials are craw-fishing and scuttling rapidly.

The Attorney General of the State, Jerry Brown, never one to let a crisis go to waste, is seizing documents, serving subpoenas, and seeking to make charges.

There is a City Council meeting at 7 pm tonight.

Mostly, it is just an example of the attitude of many elected officials toward their constituents – and extreme example, to be sure but nevertheless, elected officials (like Congressman Charlie Rangel) have a sense of entitlement that is simply royal in nature.

If there ever was a time and place begging for a Tea Party, the Bell City Council is an example of why the citizens need to band together to end these excesses that are happening everywhere – and this Bell City is just the most glaring example, but the obscene benefits and retirements are by far the more economically dangerous.

By this time next year, those growing benefits and retirements will cause as much concern as does Bell, tonight.