Telling the truth is a reliable way to "offend" the duplicitous. 

In many other parts of the country, members of a city council (or staffers) who are as firmly in the grip of special interests as Sammamish's can usually pocket some pretty substantial compensation under the table for their trouble. Makes you wonder if these folks are just "giving it away." There's got to be some way to rationalize such dogged antagonism towards their constituents.