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| White House releases staff salary data |
| 2010-07-05 |
| The White House on Friday released the salaries of its staff members ranging from its lowest-level employees to chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. Right before a holiday weekend, of course. Emanuel, press secretary Roberts Gibbs, senior adviser David Axelrod and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett make the top salary amount of $172,200 per year. Three staffers have their salaries listed as $0. Speaking of which, why don't the Big Four become dollar-a-year folks? Come on, Valerie, it's for the children. In total, the White House pays its staff $38,796,307. Wrong. The White House don't pay nuthin'. We The People pay. And We ain't happy. Conspicuously absent from the list is the brains behind the operation, TOTUS. I have to assume that he's in for a big share of the post-administration boodle |
| Posted by:Matt |
| #4 Meh, peanuts. The original dollar-a-year men were fabulously corrupt self-dealing dicks. It's not the salaries that are the scandal - the peculiarity of the situation is that WH staffers can't make more than the president and the presidential salary is fairly low by CEO standards - it's the power abuses and future lobbying paydays they're setting themselves up for that really will reek. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-07-05 19:39 |
| #3 In total, the White House pays its staff $38,796,307. I tell ya, the stimulus plan is working--at least for my people. Barack Obama |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-07-05 17:28 |
| #2 "Journalistic ethics" That's become an oxymoron in the last couple of decades, Frank. With the emphasis on the moron. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-05 13:32 |
| #1 scandal du jour at the Washington Post - they allowed opinion articles (as a panelist and blogger for the Washington Post 'On Leadership' website) by one of those upaid WH employees without disclosing: Patricia G. McGinnis, Advisor to the Obama White House on leadership programs for Presidential Appointees Journalistic ethics? We don't need that, right, Dave Weigel? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-07-05 12:29 |