Posted on 12/30/2014 1:27:17 PM PST by matt04
The holidays will be a little merrier for about 200 appointees of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other constitutional officers: They are getting raises ranging from three percent to 12 percent at an annual cost of $1.4 million.
The raises were announced by Ben Barnes, who oversees the budget as the secretary of policy and management. His salary jumps by 12 percent, from $186,999 to $209,439.
All the raises take effect on Dec. 26.
For Barnes and most of the other top officials, including the governor's chief of staff, Mark Ojakian, the raises are the first since joining the Malloy administration. Barnes came on board on Jan. 5, 2011, the day the governor took office.
He is the top-paid political appointee. After the raises, the highest-paid commissioners will be making a little more than $190,000 annually.
The raises were announced on the night before the night before Christmas, when hardly a creature was stirring, either in the House, the Senate or the Capitol press room.
A press release went out at 4:34 p.m. under the name of Gian-Carl Casa, the undersecretary of policy and management.
At the time, he was sitting on an airplane in Baltimore, connecting on a vacation flight to Florida. Reached by cell phone on the tarmac, he did arrange for the full list of raises to be forwarded to The Mirror.
The list shows that he will return to find his $135,000 salary bumped 12 percent to $151,200.
The raises come a month after the administration ordered $48 million in emergency spending cuts and restricted hiring and purchasing to help offset a projected shortfall.
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And the low information voters (idiots) still keep voting for the dems.
Mainly Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven.
Meanwhile median household income in CT has dropped $5K since 2009.
Mallory, re elected by the big cities... the small cities and small towns went red..my hometown went for the Darnell Moron. Not surprising, since the Marxist IAM controls the town (East Hartford, home of Pratt Whitney).
Ain’t that nice! Conveniently, right after the election.
Another elite liberal who thinks the public exists to fund his lavish lifestyle.
I'm right there with him.
I just received notice in the mail that my monthly Social Security payment will increase $12 in 2015!
Woo-hoo!!!
Oh wait. Twelve dollars. Not twelve percent.
Never mind.
You got $12.00 a month Social Security payment increase? I got $16.00. Will go a long way to my nearly $1,000 hospital bill I got last week (good insurance covered the rest), plus the $600 a year the local Dems added to my real estate tax plus the $517 + penalties for my car tax.
What is wrong with this picture? DEMOCRATS, the modern rat plague on America.
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