Taxpayers pay high salaries and more money to teach on state time ( Colorado double dipping )

Watchdog ^ | April 8, 2015 | Arthur Kane

[george76]

Taxpayers paid state Supreme Court Chief Justice Nancy Rice nearly $148,000 plus generous government benefits last year. But, since 2007, she collected more than $100,000 in public money teaching University of Colorado law school classes that began during normal judicial business hours, Watchdog.org has found.

Public Defender Douglas Wilson and one of his employees, Ann Roan, also were paid for teaching at the CU law school during normal work hours, despite taxpayers paying Wilson more than $138,000 and Roan more than $132,000 a year to do their public defender jobs, documents obtained under state open records laws show.

Steve Curtis, vice president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, said the double dipping is an abuse of taxpayer money

[pepsionice]

One of the great double-dipper stories of the past decade....was the campus security chief of some California state university. She’d hit the big time and was making in the $170,000 range. She retired, and was probably making around $120,000 in pension.

Oddly, they didn’t go and search around for a replacement...they simply shifted the number two person into the position for roughly a year. Then, he retires.

Having a full-year of retirement time....the original chief now submits her paperwork for the old job. They accept her, and she walks right back into the same job (with slightly higher pay) and continues to get her state pension check because she met the one-year rule. She’s collecting well over $300,000 a year now and continuing to build on her pension. When this all occurred...she was in her late 50’s, so she’s got several years before she even gets to social security age.

[Logical me]

This crap going on while the middle class can’t pay all their bills and the poor get huge welfare. Something wrong here. Smell government BS and one hell of a con job on us.

[Loud Mime]

I’m in California and I’m going to find Mike Rosen’s take on this.

[vette6387]

“One of the great double-dipper stories of the past decade....was the campus security chief of some California state university. She’d hit the big time and was making in the $170,000 range. She retired, and was probably making around $120,000 in pension.”

She was the chief of police for the UC Berkeley Campus. This stuff is one of the major disgraces of our PE pension “system.” I live over the hill in Contra Costa County. Our local Fire Protection District has had two Fire Chiefs retire in quick succession at 50 years of age and start collecting pensions that exceed their working salaries. These pricks ( and their wives ) will cost the taxpayers millions if they live to their life expectancies.

[cherry]

come on now folks....these are IMPORTANT people afterall, and besides, their govt workers so they should get everything....

[cherry]

this is your govt/military complex....I know that many freepers are double and triple dippers but I say its absolutely WRONG for govt to be used in this manner to the detriment of every single tax payer, especially those that are in private employment, much of which is MORE IMPORTANT than most of the govt jobs ever dreamt up.....there...I said it...