Yeah you have to figure that if Aguirre had played his cards right he really could have championed this cause and perhaps pulled it off. However he just was a prick to everyone. I forgot the stat but the guy like had a HUGE turnover in his own office! He chased away many a city attorney and that certainly could not have helped.
Still at the very least he did bring the case to the courts. Of course our wonderful judicial system in thier peculiar wisdom found that the benefits were indeed not illegal. How that finding was made is very much beyond me but I guess that is why I am not an attorney. The final nail in this coffin is that the unions pretty much have a deathgrip on the city council. The only member I have any faith in is Carl De Mayo (probably misspelled). The rest of them all suck.
I forgot the original whistle blowers name but her husband ran for mayor and basically his platform was to declare bankruptcy then. He was the same guy who went through the Orange County bankruptcy. To bad people with good ideas either lose miserably or are aholes like Aguirre. As lame as he was I still did vote for him in a losing cause.
Pretty funny because we have tons and tons of OT posts here but really local city politics may affect San Diegans more then national issues but nobody seems to care much.