Cooley to get raise

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to raise the district attorney's salary by $55,471 - about what an average county employee makes a year - to $292,300 effective Dec. 1. Troy Anderson in the Daily News.

The move means that if re-elected this year, District Attorney Steve Cooley would become the county's highest-paid elected official.

"He's rapidly approaching the pay level of the president of the United States, and that's not a good thing for anybody," said David Kline, spokesman for the California Taxpayers Association.