Posted on 03/04/2010 5:53:50 PM PST by SmithL
Former Assembly Speaker Karen Bass quietly promoted 20 members of her Democratic caucus staff and gave them 10 percent salary increases that took effect her final days as Assembly leader.
Along with higher pay, staff members received different job titles, reflecting perhaps a change in duties, Assembly records show.
The pay hikes come at a thorny time, however, with the state facing massive debt and most state employees seeing their pay cut through furloughs.
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“You people keep quiet about what you saw. And here is some help keeping quiet.”
Why everyone in the nation isn’t rising up with torches and pitchforks, when we hear about something like this in each of our (57?) states each week is beyond me!
WTF is it going to take to wake people up?
Cutting off welfare checks? ;)
How generous she is.. with other people’s money.
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