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Originally Posted by Resolute 14

General opinion is that her aides were wildly overpaid, which in turn overvalues their severance packages. This will fall into the same category as the flight expenses: There's a reasonable figure, and then there is Redford's figure. Being a Redford crony obviously paid well before the gravy train jumped the tracks.

I've read the stuff about her aides being overpaid, and I just think that these are pretty close to the going cost for top people. I know that the wages look bad compared to the "average salary", but in truth these aren't just average employees (or at least they shouldn't be).

Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful

First, this isn't a business, and it isn't the private sector, so you damn well can include the severance. Second, you're starting to look pretty desperate with your attempts to drag Wild Rose in to everything

Why shouldn't we compare this to the private sector? Its a cost of running business and these people could presumably go find work there, and likely came from there as well? Her Chief of Staff was a partner at a major law firm before taking that role. I doubt he would consider that for say $75k a year to keep in line with the average employee.

Originally Posted by darklord700

Ah, so much dirt dug up by the press in the last few days that I lost track on which one is which, the airfare farce, the million dollar severance, the free flights home for her staff, the premium suit ordering, could there even be more?

That story about the suite is ridiculous. I thought that I read that today is "garbage day" and basically the party was going to bring out everything. Then in a few weeks the candidates will all start to declare and when they do they will all be the "anti-Redford" and all be appalled at what has gone on. By the time 2016 rolls around the coffers will be full again and the electorate will have long since forgotten the transgressions under the "previous regime".