Saturday, 29 December 2007
Just a Snafu
I love how when Republicans make a hiring mistake it is a violation of the merit laws. But when the Democrats make similar mistakes it is just a snafu. All they need to do is "fill out the appropriate paper work" and it magically disappears.
Dan Egbers, the Personnel Cabinet's new general counsel, agreed in a letter issued Wednesday that the pay raises weren't properly documented, but said they can be resubmitted to the cabinet as a bonus known to state employees as an ACE, or Award for Continuing Excellence.
So let's see if we can get this straight. Miller hires Parker out of college in 2000 making 21,000 a year. And just seven years later she is making almost $79,000. That is an increase of nearly 280 percent. During those same seven years state government was under a hiring freeze and most employees saw few raises. But we are supposed to believe that nothing was inappropriate.
"Those people who are aware of the close friendship that Brooke and my wife Lisa have find this laughable, but it's not funny," Miller said.
So Miller even admits to a close friendship, but we don't even get an investigation into whether there was inappropriate favoritism.
The Republican Party of Kentucky yesterday called on the attorney general's office to investigate the raises offered Parker, but Attorney General Greg Stumbo said his office doesn't "have any reason to believe that criminal activity took place."
It hasn't taken long for the Democratic double standard to take hold in Frankfort.
