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Obama Administration Named Holly Petraeus to $187,605-Per-Year Job
CNS News.Com ^ | November 14, 2012 | Penny Starr

Posted on 11/14/2012 7:26:02 PM PST by GridSquare

(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration named Holly Petraeus--wife of retired Gen. David Patraeus, who resigned last week as CIA director after revealing he had had an extra-marital affair--to $187,605-per-yer job in the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201101; 20110112; affair; benghazi; cia; doddfrank; federalreserve; happened2yearsago; hollypetraeus; hollypetreaus; paytoplay; petraeus; petraeusaffair; petreaus; readthearticle
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To: GridSquare
What the hell??!!!! This story just gets weirder each passing day. At this point ya gotta have a score card to keep up.
61 posted on 11/14/2012 8:44:22 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (I'm going Galt.)
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To: GridSquare

See: she’s a poor working class Joe like the rest of us.

Now go pay your taxes, your government is broke. :)


62 posted on 11/14/2012 8:52:42 PM PST by Tzimisce (Will there be anything to fight for in 2016?)
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To: GridSquare

Obvious payoff. Petraeus will support Obama regardless. There will be no revelation at the hearing. Our heroes have feet of clay.


63 posted on 11/14/2012 8:52:56 PM PST by kabar
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To: mojo114

One year - she is up for a raise!


64 posted on 11/14/2012 8:53:29 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: yarddog

You mean like an election was blatantly stolen, and more than half of the country knows it?


65 posted on 11/14/2012 8:55:25 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: mojo114
Does it really matter when she was hired. This is the way the Chicago thugs buy loyalty. Remember when Michelle got her big paying job at a Chicago hospital when Senator Obama got elected.

Combine that 187,000 with Petraeus general salary plus combat pay and you get a 1 percenter.

66 posted on 11/14/2012 8:58:15 PM PST by kabar
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To: Bshaw

I have no idea what it is unless it has something to do with Benghazi. It could just be something from his past finally coming out.

There just seems to be something in the air which I haven’t felt for a long time.


67 posted on 11/14/2012 8:59:55 PM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)
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To: GridSquare

I was actually feeling sorry for Holly Petraeus.


68 posted on 11/14/2012 9:10:03 PM PST by moovova
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To: scooby321

Another way to keep Petreus under the lid of not singing at the hearing scheduled Friday!!!


69 posted on 11/14/2012 9:15:29 PM PST by danamco (-)
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To: GridSquare

out of curiosity.... what did this general’s wife do in her last position?

what are her qualifications that allowed her to snag a plumb $190k/yr job?

I want to know... because I’M PAYING FOR IT !!


70 posted on 11/14/2012 9:16:38 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: GridSquare

It appears to be a cluster foxtrot in an elevator shaft — with no elevator.


71 posted on 11/14/2012 9:29:03 PM PST by TArcher
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To: GridSquare

Obama should feel so sorry for me. My husband was a rat too.

Oh wait.


72 posted on 11/14/2012 9:29:22 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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sfl


73 posted on 11/14/2012 9:35:44 PM PST by phockthis (http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm ...)
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To: Java4Jay
The CFPB, created by the Dodd-Frank law, was placed by that law under the umbrella of the Federal Reserve. The funding of the CFBP, which comes from the Federal Reserve, is not subject to congressional oversight.

She works in the gilded palace of sin. Her paycheck is not signed by the Treasurer of the United States which is what Federale "workers" get. Her paycheck is signed by Ben Bernanke or whoever signs  the paychecks at the Federal Reserve. Which is a private bank with some limited personnel appointed by the President to give it a veneer of accountability to the American people. But the people the Federal Reserve really answers to are the major banks that hold stock in it

74 posted on 11/14/2012 9:46:44 PM PST by dennisw ( The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: morphing libertarian

Yep. It sounds like she actually put in some years getting experience for this general area, and a little less than $200K is pretty much in line with that kind of standard bureaucrat director-type job. (Unfortunately.)


75 posted on 11/14/2012 9:51:51 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: GridSquare
Zero clearly thinks he can get away with anything.
76 posted on 11/14/2012 10:03:37 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party: advancing indenture since 1787.)
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To: SoldierDad

Well, well, well.. Looks like Holly becomes part of the ‘sex scandal’ investigation, although I think it’s more of a ‘White House corruption’ investigation. 0bama is a shameless CHICAGO THUG. How does anything ever get done with such widespread corruption, bribery, extortion, payoffs, kickbacks, blah blah blah...


77 posted on 11/14/2012 10:04:33 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: 9YearLurker

They create these agencies as a place to install those they want to payoff, IMO.


78 posted on 11/14/2012 10:13:20 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: GridSquare
Why would any woman take a job like that? Hasn't anyone seen Flash Dance?
79 posted on 11/14/2012 10:15:52 PM PST by firebrand
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To: GridSquare

Breathtaking in it’s corruptness. The General won’t say $hit at the hearings; they bought the wife, and they don’t care who knows it.


80 posted on 11/14/2012 10:16:33 PM PST by Mike Darancette (I don't understand why the Boomers are so passive.)
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