12/2/10

Rell's Big Spending Bureaucratic Republican Cronyism

Cementing Her Excellency, Governor M. Jodi Rell's legacy:

Connected Appointee Gets Immediate Raise
www.courant.com

Jacqueline Mandyck of West Hartford — a political appointee of Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's who had stood to lose her job as a $107,000-a-year deputy commissioner of consumer protection in January, but on Oct. 22 landed a position on the permanent state civil-service payroll — has experienced still another bit of good fortune.

Newly surfaced records show that the announced $103,580-a-year salary for her new job at the state Department of Economic and Community Development was immediately increased by more than $10,000, to $113,623.

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Mandyck, 43, knows Rell's powerful chief of staff, M. Lisa Moody, as well as Moody's longtime friend and golfing partner, the well-connected lobbyist Paddi LeShane. Mandyck was the focus of a Government Watch column in the Courant on Sunday about a number of Rell administration appointees being placed in jobs on the permanent state payroll rather than becoming unemployed after Democratic Gov.-Elect Dan Malloy takes office on Jan. 5. Other candidates scored higher than Mandyck on an examination, but an interview panel led by Rell appointees said she did better in her interview.
Emphasis mine, because lord knows GOP cronies should not have to suffer through the same unemployment problems - problems  they caused with their glibertarian* free-market-run-amok deregulation of financial industries out the ying yang - that the rest of America has to suffer through in the real world.

So Rell is using the taxpayer's money as an ATM to pay for her friends' parting gifts in the typical IOKIYAR "Big Spending Government Bureaucracy" the GOP likes to create and break when they are in power and then point to as the problem when they are not in power.

* Glibertarian and, again, emphasis mine:
a portmanteau of glib and libertarian, a person who affects libertarianism when it’s convenient. Used by those not ready to admit that all libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to “I got mine, fuck you”, or by those attempting to be polite to libertarians.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a joke. Not to mention the $250 K she doled out to Brookfield for their playground. Talk about a liberal spender!!!

Connecticut Man1 said...

Liberally spending has been a conservative trait for years, since the days of Reagan. I wish they would pick up liberal policies that were more conservative with our money. Hell? I wish Obama would pick up some liberal policies because, even though Dems had control of everything, they were/are still using the tired old Reaganomics of borrow and spending us all into poverty.

Next session will only get worse, IMHO, as "real conservatives" in the GOP take over the House and will just make the reckless spending worse.

CT Fair and Balanced said...

Interesting how this is playing out. The bonding for her projects (as she scoots out the door) was voted down by some state board (bonding board?). We'll see if it passes the next time around.

But, take notice of the towns in our area getting the money in this bond package. They're all governed by republicans. New Milford, Brookfield, and Danbury. Can you say "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?"

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