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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlabama governor under fire for giving massive pay rises amid financial crisis
Source: The Guardian
Alabama governor under fire for giving massive pay rises amid financial crisis
Governor Robert Bentley set against state legislature after giving
his advisers sizeable raises some of which topped $73,000 in
increased annual pay
Matthew Teague in Fairhope, Alabama
Tuesday 22 March 2016 12.47 GMT
Alabamas governor outraged his critics and disconcerted his allies recently by handing out gigantic pay raises to his advisers, while the state tumbles into financial crisis.
The maneuvers set the governor, Robert Bentley, against the state legislature just as it created the states general fund budget for 2017. So legislators took the opportunity to carve money equaling the pay raises some of which topped $73,000 in increased annual pay out of the governors own budget and put it toward Medicaid.
Bentley is expected to veto that general fund budget on Tuesday he has said its $700m Medicaid budget still falls short of the $785m needed to keep the program functional.
Meanwhile, workers around the state who have seen budgets and their own salaries slashed especially in education reacted with shock at Bentleys generosity to his inner circle.
Its disheartening as a teacher, said Jennifer Gilmore, who works at an elementary school in Baldwin County. She said this is her seventh year teaching, and that she has never had a raise of any sort in fact four of those seven years, she said, her pay went down. When I heard about these nice, fat raises for the governors people I was taken aback. Its a slap in our faces.
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Governor Robert Bentley set against state legislature after giving
his advisers sizeable raises some of which topped $73,000 in
increased annual pay
Matthew Teague in Fairhope, Alabama
Tuesday 22 March 2016 12.47 GMT
Alabamas governor outraged his critics and disconcerted his allies recently by handing out gigantic pay raises to his advisers, while the state tumbles into financial crisis.
The maneuvers set the governor, Robert Bentley, against the state legislature just as it created the states general fund budget for 2017. So legislators took the opportunity to carve money equaling the pay raises some of which topped $73,000 in increased annual pay out of the governors own budget and put it toward Medicaid.
Bentley is expected to veto that general fund budget on Tuesday he has said its $700m Medicaid budget still falls short of the $785m needed to keep the program functional.
Meanwhile, workers around the state who have seen budgets and their own salaries slashed especially in education reacted with shock at Bentleys generosity to his inner circle.
Its disheartening as a teacher, said Jennifer Gilmore, who works at an elementary school in Baldwin County. She said this is her seventh year teaching, and that she has never had a raise of any sort in fact four of those seven years, she said, her pay went down. When I heard about these nice, fat raises for the governors people I was taken aback. Its a slap in our faces.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/22/alabama-governor-robert-bentley-pay-rises-financial-crisis
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Alabama governor under fire for giving massive pay rises amid financial crisis (Original Post)
Eugene
Mar 2016
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Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,483 posts)1. Yet I'll bet his moronic supporters hate government spending. nt
librechik
(30,663 posts)2. "Jeeves, bring me the feathered paddle for Governor Bentley.
Last edited Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:43 AM - Edit history (1)
That man deserves a serious wrist-lashing, pro forma. Oh, and tighten the barbed collar on Governor Siegel. I believe he's still in solitary."
--His majesty Karl Rove of the Alabama/Texas Roves.
LettuceSea
(337 posts)3. Dr. Doctor Bentley was the governor who said he wouldn't take a salary
He also wanted his first name to be "Doctor" on the ballot.
Governor Dr. Doctor Bentley