Political analysts believe that in appointing his Cabinet, Mugabe will try to balance his appointments along tribal and factional lines.
Zanu-PF has two main factions, one led by Vice-President Joice Mujuru and the other by outÂgoing Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, although both deny leading any factions. Nearly nose-snorted my rooibos. Those M&G political analysts, minds like steel traps.
[LATIMES] Santa Ana has hired away Phoenix's city manager and has agreed to an annual salary and benefits package of more than half a million dollars, instantly making him one of the highest paid city employees in California.
David Cavazos, a longtime Phoenix employee who rose through the ranks from intern to city manager during his 26-year tenure, would have a total compensation package of $558,625 in his first year in Santa Ana.
If they hired a person who was 80% as good for half the pay, wouldn't they be ahead?
Only the city manager in tiny Indian Wells is listed as having a higher salary and benefits package at $677,172, according to the state controller's office, which most recently released data for 2011. That paycheck included a severance payout to the city manager, who was stepping down .
In Santa Ana, Cavazos will earn a base salary of $315,000, the same basic salary he made as the chief executive in Phoenix, which has a population of 1.47 million. Santa Ana has a population of about 330,000.
With benefits, the city expects to pay Cavazos $558,625 in the first year of his contract, with the figure dropping to $515,000 in his second and third year, according to a report prepared for the City Council. Among the benefits Cavazos will receive are $36,000 for housing in the first year and $24,000 per year after that. In addition, he will receive $7,500 in moving expenses, several sick and vacation days, and insurance benefits.
In an interview with The Times, Cavazos said he doubts he'll reap all of the benefits allotted to him in his contract.
"I haven't taken a sick day in 10 years. Some of those costs are not going to occur," he said. "I'm not leaving for the money. I'm not going there for the money. Just like I came here for an opportunity, I'm going to Santa Ana for an opportunity."
Though much smaller than Phoenix, Santa Ana is the county seat in Orange County and a political power base. But the densely packed city has struggled with budget problems in recent years.
Cavazos noted that he helped Phoenix emerge from a $277-million budget deficit and that it now has "the highest contingency fund in city history."
Santa Ana leaders praised Cavazos for his experience and said they believe he will help bring in economic development and federal dollars.
"You get what you pay for," Councilwoman Michele Martinez said. "We wanted the best and we didn't want to shortchange our city. He's very qualified; we didn't want to nickel and dime."
Phoenix officials gave Cavazos a $78,000 pay raise late last year, boosting his base salary to $315,000. The raise sparked controversy there. Defenders argued it would help retain a talented manager and put his pay in line with cities similar in size to Phoenix.
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I'm not leaving for the money. I'm not going there for the money....'
#2
For perspective, an installation commander, usually a colonel(O6), on a military post fills most of the same demands that a city manager does. The monthly pay is about $7,898, throw in housing (not something new and fancy), and medcare (military Tricare). That's a hell of a lot cheaper than 500K a year. Somebody doesn't know how to shop. Actually, they don't care. It's not their money. Play it safe, pay premium.
#4
We're talking installation commander. Whether the installation (vice city) or higher command (vice state/fed) are additional factors are applicable to any perspective. Those costs are 'sunk' and are generally not negotiable in individual hiring and firings.
#5
Marine Corps installation, it's also a Colonel. Same thing: base housing, Tricare, etc. Not called an installation commander here; actually the senior non-star on the commanding general's staff.
The difference between an installation commander and a city manager is that the former's authority stems from ability, rank and position. The latter is based on ability, resume, and connections (social and political.)
#8
Unless its an installation with line troops, the post commander has security (MPs etc), facilities engineers, etc, the full community requirements. The difference that the uniform operator has over the civilian is the ability to administratively 'kick off post' destructive influences before they become a UCMJ issue (or federal law if you dealing with civies).
#9
Unlike most installation commanders he will not be taking over a normally well run organization. He's taking on poorly run, in debt, politically created city. If he manages to turn it around he will have earned every penny. If not, I suspect there is a performance requirement for his employment.
Wonder how long it will take the politicians that hired him to start squealing about and resisting the measures he will have to take?
#10
total compensation package of $558,625 in his first year in Santa Ana.
I'm giving him 15 days of vacation plus 4 legal holidays by California law - includes Cesar Chavez Day (Mar 31) and Black Friday ( day after Thanksgiving )
works 242 days in a year.... does not take sick days ... "I haven't taken a sick day in 10 years. Some of those costs are not going to occur," he said.
So works say 50 hour work week - 5 days a week @ 10 hours a day.
He is paid 2308.37 per day or 230.83 an hour or
3.84 a minute.
[Washington Examiner] In a remarkable admission that is likely to rock the Internal Revenue Service again, testimony released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp reveals that an agent involved in reviewing tax exempt applications from conservative groups told a committee investigator that the agency is still targeting Tea Party groups, three months after the IRS scandal erupted. "Remarkable"....to some possibly.
In closed door testimony before the House Ways & Means Committee, the unidentified IRS agent said requests for special tax status from Tea Party groups is being forced into a special "secondary screening" because the agency has yet to come up with new guidance on how to judge the tax status of the groups.
In a transcript from the committee provided to Secrets, a Ways & Means investigator asked: "If you saw -- I am asking this currently, if today if a Tea Party case, a group -- a case from a Tea Party group came in to your desk, you reviewed the file and there was no evidence of political activity, would you potentially approve that case? Is that something you would do?"
The agent said, "At this point I would send it to secondary screening, political advocacy."
The committee staffer then said, "So you would treat a Tea Party group as a political advocacy case even if there was no evidence of political activity on the application. Is that right?" The agent admitted, "Based on my current manager's direction, uh-huh." The Nurenberg defense. Very impressive Might want to ask the ghost of Anton Dostler how that turned out...
#4
A father walks into a restaurant with his young son He gives the young boy 3 nickels to play with to keep him occupied.
Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realizes the boy has swallowed the nickels and starts slapping him on the back. The boy coughs up 2 of the nickels, but keeps choking. Looking at his son, the father is panicking, shouting for help.
A well-dressed, attractive, and serious looking woman in a blue business suit is sitting at the coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and places it on it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the restaurant.
Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants; takes hold of the boy's testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the last nickel, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand.
Releasing the boy's testicles, the woman hands the nickel to the father and walks back to her seat at the coffee bar without saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying, "I've never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor? "
"No," the woman replied, "I'm with the Internal Revenue Service."
#5
IRS Joke I heard years ago...
Big, burly, bigmouthed man in the bar is going around challenging people to things. Darts, Pool, whatever. Finally he takes an empty glass (and not a shot glass) and a single lemon. He squeezes the lemon over the glass - his muscles tighen, cords stick out of his neck and his face turns red but he finally manages to fill the glass with lemon juice from the single lemon.
People are astonished, "how he'd do that?" and the braggart went around challenging people to do the same - no-body takes him up on it. Finally he gets to this little wizzened old man at the end "I bet you can't fill a glass with lemon juice like that!" he challenges.
"Well I'll try...".
The burley man get another empty glass and lemon and slams it on the bar, "Lets see it. $50 says you can't do it!".
"Ok" says the wizzened old man who todders over to the bar. He takes the glass and the remains of the same lemon the big guy squeezed, positions it over the glass and gives it a slight little flex... and fills up glass easily. Everyone is flabbergasted!
"How the hell you do that?" the big guy demanded.
"Well, you see, Before I retired I worked for the IRS....".
#7
Every organization takes on the personality of its leader. At the top our leader is corrupt, unapologetic, a racist, egocentric, and disregards the constitution while holding democracy in contempt. The DOJ, IRS, State Dept., democratic party, and other agencies are a mirror the Obama soul. By the end of his presidency our economic system, legal system, tax code, health care codes, foreign policy, diplomatic processes, and political processes will be so corrupted and so fragile they might not survive. He will have proven himself to be the largest risk to national security since Stalin.
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Well, there's another election coming up in 2014. What did you expect?
#9
This is just a trial - just wait until they start delaying approval of life-saving medical treatment based on one's 'associations' (via that huge NSA database...).
"Oh... you visited Rantburg 20 times last week.... well we'll have to route this to 'secondary screening'" (which has a 18-month backlog....)
#11
This is just a trial - just wait until they start...
Of course you know the IRS will be running ObamaCare. It is a "constitutional" tax after all. So it'll be the same people with the same database and the same lack of scruples.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[LATIMES] Santa Ana has hired away Phoenix's city manager and has agreed to an annual salary and benefits package of more than half a million dollars, instantly making him one of the highest paid city employees in California.
