SC Gov Haley Approves Huge Salary Increases

[The Straight Story]

So much for limited government …

With her state facing an estimated $1 billion budget shortfall, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley handed out huge salary increases to top gubernatorial staffers on her first full day in office. She also doled out big salaries to newly-created positions within the governor’s office.

Paying attention, Tea Partiers?

Haley started things off by giving her new chief of staff, Tim Pearson, a 27.5 percent pay raise. Pearson will make $125,000 a year – or $27,000 more than Scott English made while serving as chief of staff to former Gov. Mark Sanford.

Pearson will also have a full-time assistant who makes $60,000 a year.

Haley’s deputy chief of staff for communications and legislative affairs – Trey Walker – will be paid $122,775 a year. That’s a 42.3 percent increase over the second-highest paid staffer in the Sanford administration.

Haley’s top lawyer, Swati Patel, will be paid $102,000 a year – which is a 36 percent increase over the $75,000 a year that Sanford paid his top lawyer.

http://www.fitsnews.com/2011/01/13/haley-approves-huge-salary-increases/

[DrDan]

1. it's justified - plenty of money in the SC coffers

[Trajan]

2. ...

..... ? ........

[DrDan]

4. didn't think I had to spell it out . . .

:sarcasm:

[Trajan]

6. Nothing is definite and clear in this place ...

I dont know you ....

[Angry Dragon]

3. Being liars and scum pays well

and on another note all unemployment and social services will be eliminated,
because the big boys and girls can not be expected to work for peanuts, you know

This country is lost, one little piece at a time.........

[DCKit]

5. The Wingers must be too shocked to respond.

Almost every (R) ran on small government and fiscal responsibility last time around.

The teahadii are delusional masochists.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Where is your messiah now, tea-baggers?

[cbdo2007]

8. What's her boyfriend blogger have to say about all of this??

[digitaln3rd]

9. Didn't Palin endorse her?

Watch out, Haley, you might be on her next campaign poster.

[blindpig]

10. Not to worry...

Reinstating the sales tax on food will cover it, might even cover the shortfall from eliminating the Corporate Income Tax.