Pay to play

Have you ever wondered why a resident of Milpitas has only 3 minutes give a talk before the city council meetings and companies have all the time they want? The reason is they pay for the privilege by contributing to the council members in campaign contributions. Most residents don't pay for campaign contributions they just pay the council members their salaries. Do you think the council members care about the people who are paying their salaries? Of course not. When there is a hot topic and more then 30 citizens what to speak, well then their time to speak is cut down to maybe one and a half minutes. So Milpitas residents are really second class citizens. The city council member get paid about $180.00 an hour for about 100 hours of work a year. If they had to work another hour then there pay would be only $178.22 an hour and of course they would get home an hour later maybe. The council members will tell you that they are doing you a favor by reducing the time you speak on an issue. The way they present it is by saying something like this  

"In order to hear everyone who wants to talk city council  members will reduce your time to speak"

They will quickly vote on the motion to reduce your time to speak and it is quickly approved by the majority of council member. Armando Gomez will introduce the motion and Debbie Giordano will second the motion( in less then a second) then other members Althea Polanski and Pete McHugh will approve it. If they had their way they would not want to hear what you have to say at all, just pay their salary and benefits and please be quiet and go away after 3 minutes or less.