7 L.A. councilmembers have refused to take pay cuts

Thousands of Los Angeles city employees have been targeted for layoffs or had their pay reduced in response to the city's budget crisis. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has taken a voluntary pay cut; so have eight City Council members. But Michael Linder at KABC AM-790 reports that members Richard Alarcon, Bernard Parks, Greig Smith, Tony Cardenas, Herb Wesson, Bill Rosendahl and Paul Krekorian — the new guy — have so far declined to cut their highest-in-the-nation salaries. Parks, of course, also takes home a substantial city pension for his years of employment by the police department. Linder says the subject will be the main topic on Peter Tilden's show at 7:05 a.m. last Thursday.