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Will Phil Ask Kisber To Give His Raise Back?

By Kleinheider Posted on May 1, 2008 at 8:06 am

Tom Humphrey points out that Governor Phil Bredesen has taken state employee pay raises off the table now that it seems layoffs are the only solution to the budget mess:

In his original budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning July 1, Bredesen recommended a 2 percent state employee pay raise that now will be eliminated.

“I would not lay somebody off and give somebody else a pay raise,” he said.

Luckily, for those at the “executive level” in the Bredesen administration, their 55% pay increases were appropriated in last year’s budget.

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2 Responses to “Will Phil Ask Kisber To Give His Raise Back?”

  1. The State Needs More Golden Parachutes? : Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee writes
    May 5th, 2008 10:50 am

    […] Indeed, B. would seem to have a point not only is the Bredesen bunker project continuing as the state workers so to are the hefty pay raises for the Governor’s top political appointees while your average work-a-day bureaucrat gets the proverbial shaft. […]

  2. TNGOP Engages In “Class Warfare” Over Budget : Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee writes
    May 7th, 2008 3:00 pm

    […] layoffs for workaday bureaucrats while leaving his top dog political appointees’ pay raises intact: “Upper management making out like bandits and getting lavish party facilities while the […]

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