California be careful what you wish for...Arnie worse than Davis...

[greenbriar]

AP: Schwarzenegger Spends More on Payroll

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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES - Even as he calls for shared sacrifice to solve the state's financial crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) is spending more than his predecessor on salaries for his official staff, an Associated Press investigation found.


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Schwarzenegger has slightly fewer employees than Gov. Gray Davis (news - web sites) did toward the end of his term, but is spending nearly 8 percent more on salaries. He is also paying more six-figure incomes within his inner circle than Davis did.


"For a governor who came to office saying he would cut the government, he seems to have really pumped it up, at least salaries for his inner circle," said Jamie Court, a consumer activist with the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. "It doesn't show much respect for taxpayers."


The AP obtained the governor's office payroll records through a California Public Records Act request to the state Controller's Office.


Schwarzenegger's office points out that his staff is smaller than Davis' and that the Hollywood multimillionaire has refused to accept the governor's $175,000 salary for himself, instead returning it to the budget.


"The governor is proud of his staff and thinks they are part of what has turned this state around," spokeswoman Margita Thompson said.


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[anelson]

1. Republicans are hypocrites....

Tax and spend is what they say about democrats, but damn if they don't let their friends suckle at the public teat....

[greenbriar]

3. hehe

so true

[Fenris]

2. But he always emerged victorious in his movies!

California has a nasty habit of electing actors to run their state. If I lived in the fifth largest economy in the world, I certainly would not put my faith in someone whose life is spent in a pretend universe.

[fob]

4. RECALL!!

Nevertheless, the governor's office payroll has grown from $3.37 million annually at the end of Davis' tenure to $3.63 million as of last month, a 7.7 percent increase.

So that puts the "arnie is not taking his salary so it's alright" lie to rest. Note that he's still spending $270,000 MORE than Davis and with fewer people!

Schwarzenegger's office noted that he is requesting the same funding, $6.1 million, in the coming fiscal year that the governor's office had this year. (In addition to salaries, that budget covers equipment, benefits, travel and other costs.)

However, the AP obtained payroll documents for both governors' staffs that show spending on employee salaries is far higher than the official budgets indicate because dozens of employees are paid from the budgets of other state departments.

Nuff said there.

[greenbriar]

hope people in cali that wanted the recall

are happy

[greenbriar]

5. hope people in cali that wanted the recall

are happy

[greenbriar]

6. hope people in cali that wanted the recall

are happy

[ContinentalOp]

8. "the people that wanted the recall"?

Are you referring to voters? If so you should change "people" to "machines." And considering your triple post I think you should check out your computer because you may be posting from a Diebold machine as well :). But if by "people that wanted the recall" you mean the BFEE, Ken Lay, Rove, etc. then yes, I'm sure they're very happy!

On Edit: Maybe we should start referring to duplicate topics & posts as "Diebolds" instead of dupes!

[Piperay]

9. I'm sure they are

and if they aren't they will never admit it because after all they are repukes and they are never wrong. (sarcasm)

[tjwash]

7. The jerk is too busy campaiging...

...to even sit down and negotiate a decent budget. I hate that my beloved state has become a freakin' punchline.

[Cha]

10. Like Florida?

Sorry! I hope the best for California and Florida..Good Luck in getting the gop infested tyrants out.

[Beloved Citizen]

11. Steroid Arnie is just another borrow and spend Republican

Don't believe the hype. And let Germany serve as a warning as to just how bad things can get when you allow an Austrian-born foreigner to take control of key government functions.

[arbusto_baboso]

12. As a coworker of mine said just after the recall....

"When you choose an Austrian as your head of state, get used to the smell of smoke and falling ash." It was brushfire season at the time, btw.

Okay, I realize the statement was tastless, but it about sums up the situation.:shrug:

[Deja Q]

13. ROTFLMAO!!!

I can do nothing else but laugh, we live in bizarroworld. Whistleblowers get disgraced by the powerful, the powerful abuse the meek, they spout "everyone has to make sacrificies" but as with MINNESOTA "everyone" excludes the wealthy...

May society turn so that our money is worthless. Then those shit-for-brains will be as lame-ducked as us and maybe learn what it's like to be hurt, in the same way they hurt the rest of us. It hurts to think this but it's damn clear Americans have no TRUE sense of pride in their country. Just hubris. And greed.

[AP]

14. Apparently when he "opuhned dah books" money didn't fall out.

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