Posted on 06/15/2005 3:11:09 PM PDT by SmithL
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- Kootenai County commissioners have suspended a public defender who allegedly sent them a crude message in a greeting card about a mistake in her pay increase.
Public defender Linda Payne delivered the missive after the county miscalculated pay benefits and told county attorneys they could expect about $5,000 more per year than was actually approved — then retracted it the next day.
Payne's hand-delivered greeting card was accompanied by a jar of petroleum jelly and a tube of red lipstick.
"The next time you choose to give us something please lubricate and/or kiss first," she wrote in the June 9 note.
It went on to say that the commission had called the prosecutor and public defender a profanity and claimed that "monkeys could do our jobs."
Commission Chairman Gus Johnson said he knows of no one on the commission who has said such things.
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I wonder if she was suspended with pay.
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