Posted on 11/25/2008 8:53:29 PM PST by SmithL
Termed-out Sen. Sheila Kuehl has landed a high-paying job on California's waste board, securing the $132,178 per year job despite a previous report that Sen. Carole Migden would land the gig.
Kuehl, who has chaired the Senate's Natural Resources and Health Committees during her tenure in the upper house, is leaving the state Senate after eight years and was appointed to the spot on the Integrated Waste Management Board by outgoing Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata.
Earlier in the day, Assembly Speaker Karen Bass named Assemblyman John Laird to a spot on the waste board, which has been a landing pad for politicos and ex-politicians for years.
Back on Nov. 16, the San Francisco Chronicle's Phil Matier and Andrew Ross reported that Migden, who lost a bruising primary to then-Assemblyman Mark Leno earlier this year, would get the lucrative waste board slot, courtesy of Perata:
Outgoing state Sen. Carole Migden of San Francisco - who was knocked off her perch in a contentious Democratic primary - has landed a new job and a raise as an appointed member of the California Integrated Waste Management Board.
Migden, who leaves office at the end of the month, was named to the $132,178-a year job by soon-to-be-termed-out state Sen. President Pro Tem Don Perata. As a state senator, Migden earned $116,208.
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Seems somehow appropriate. Her time in the legislature was mostly waste. Kuehl, BTW, is the former Zelda on the old Dobie Gillis Show and a radical lesbian who never met gay-friendly legislation she didn’t push.
Why in the hell is any government job "lucrative". And all you need to do to get this "lucrative" job is be appointed by a crony. California's government runs like Mexico's.
You noticed my keywords?
I still think Dobie should have taken one for the team.
I haven’t picked up the habit of noticing the keywords. I can be ver obtuse sometimes. LOL
Ms. Kuehl’s has her fingers on everything bad in California. She changed the unpaid family leave law to paid leave and now whole program is drowning in fraud. Short term disablity payroll taxes used to be around $150/yr. This year they were $650 and next year they go to almost $1000. It’s every lefty politicians favorite tax because it can go up astronomically every year and it doesn’t have to be voted on.
California has term-limits and we can all be thankful that the senator will now be assuming her “rightful” place...LOL
Back when unpaid family leave was proposed I argued against it, saying it was going to lead to paid leave because only “rich people” would be able to afford to take unpaid leave and those women usually had enough professional power to negotiate leave anyway. It was presented as a nice thing to do for new mothers and family members of the seriously ill but it was obviously a nose-under-the-tent ploy. I argued that it was a job killer for young women not already in the workforce because employers would presume they would be the most likely to take the leave and factor it into the cost of hiring young women of childbearing age.
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