$472,255 to run a town of 20,000

The Chicago Tribune reports on someone who's job pays more than Mayor Daley or President Barack Obama:

For running a blue-collar western suburb, taxpayers paid Roy McCampbell $472,255 last year — the highest total compensation of any suburban municipal executive — and village officials now say they're not sure why.

McCampbell, known as one of the first suburban officials to push red-light cameras, said he did the work of 10 people for Bellwood

No word yet from political scientists who believe the public sector acts in the "public interest" on this one. Just a reminder for you taxpayers who live outside Illinois: stimulus money and future bailouts for states and municipalities means you are helping finance Roy McCampell.