.Susan Ralston got a 25% pay increase working in Roves offices.

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"Susan Bonzon Ralston, Special Assistant to the President & Assistant to the Senior Advisor Karl Rove, was Jack Abramoff's executive assistant at Preston Gates and Ellis and later at the Greenberg Traurig law and lobbying firm, where "she served as the assistant director of governmental affairs. Before moving to the nation’s capital, she was an office administrator for M&J Wilkow, Ltd., a commercial real estate firm in Chicago, Illinois." <1> (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_09_18.php#006598)<2>"

Ralston, "who worked for Jack Abramoff, the K Street super lobbyist that allegedly swindled Indian tribes out of millions of dollars with the assistance of Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition, is a trusted Rove aide.

***The buzz is, Ralston is the tie that binds Rove to the Indian casino swindle as tightly as U.S. Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX)," Blogger "Amy" wrote (http://derrick.dx266.com/cgi-bin/mb5/789.html) August 4, 2005.***


"According to a White House report to Congress, Ralston's salary was $67,600. In an interview last September <2004> with Asian Week, she said that she took a 'significant pay cut' in 2001 from her job working with a prominent lobbyist," Sam Coates reported (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/12/AR2005091201630.html) in the September 13, 2005, Washington Post.

Alexis Simendinger reported (http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/0726nj_wh_dollar.htm) on White House Staff salaries in the July 26, 2005, National Journal. At that time, Ralston was shown as "Ralston Susan B. $92,100. Special Assistant to the President & Assistant to the Senior Advisor." There is no accounting for an approximately 25% annual increase in reported salary."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Susan_B._Ralston