Jul 10 2008
Seriously, is it too late to Impeach this Clown?
A raise of nearly $80,000 that N.C. State gave to first lady Mary Easley has prompted UNC system officials to review the work contract and others like it, school officials said late Wednesday.
The 88 percent raise appeared to violate a UNC system policy intended to provide an extra layer of scrutiny to unusually large pay increases.
That policy requires the UNC system’s governing board to approve increases topping 15 percent or $10,000. Easley has held an executive-in-residence position at NCSU since 2005. Last week, the school raised Easley’s salary from $90,300 to $170,000.
The pay increase would dramatically raise Easley’s state retirement benefits, which are based on an average of an employee’s four highest-earning years. The raise came as Easley was in the news for having been part of a state delegation on two trips to Europe that cost taxpayers more than $109,000.
An 88% raise?!?! What the hell do you have to do to get an 88% raise… aside from having a husband in the governor’s mansion, that is?
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It must be so easy to be an Easley. Go on expensive trips to Europe, get chauffeured around Italy, get 88% raises… and all on the taxpayers’ dime. Nice work if you can get it.
the Sleazely’s are trying to get every taxpayer $ they can confiscate before they fizzle…we had hoped they would get the hell OUT of Rawleigh in January, but now it looks like they will still be around with her new big job. These people are corrupt trash.
Democrackkk*
*spelled with 3 Ks to HONOR the democrat heritage as the ORIGINAL ‘party’ of SLAVERY, as they continue to ENSLAVE us ALL daily!
On a more serious note, I’m currently reading “The Paradox of Tar Heal Politics” by Rob Christensen. Good read so far.
On your point, during the late 1800’s/early 1900’s, you would be shocked at the level of hatred and vitriol the state Democrats had for black citizens. Their complete dominance of the state began after a truly disgusting race-baiting strategy that bordered on domestic terrorism during the 1898 election. The incumbent Republican governor was nearly lynched, black politicians were driven from their homes, and Democrat “Red Shirts” paraded an early version of the Gatling Gun around Wilmington to scare away black voters.
Now this isn’t to say that today’s Democrats are the same, because certainly they aren’t. It is an interesting historical tidbit, however, that after 1898 Republicans were in the constant minority, and in many ways still are.