More Crazy From Texas

April 01, 2019 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Okay, remember the new Texas Secretary of State who screwed up voter registration in Texas and announced that 95,000 potential noncitizens had registered to vote in violation of state law?  And the rightwing and Donald Trump were dancing around and drooling and local voter registrars were going to the expense of sending out letters to these people making them come into the office to prove they were citizens?

Remember that?

Well, the same thing happened to him that happens to every Republican who makes enormous mistakes that vilify people and waste taxpayer money: He got a 49% pay raise.

Yeah, he was in office less than five weeks, screwed everything up, and Governor Abbott rewarded him.

The day after David Whitley took office as Texas secretary of state on Dec. 17, he received a 49 percent pay raise thanks to his friend and political patron, Gov. Greg Abbott.

In a Dec. 18 letter to the Legislative Budget Board, the governor’s chief of staff said Abbott was using his authority to immediately raise Whitley’s annual salary to $197,415.

That’s almost $64,500 more than the $132,924 paid to Rolando Pablos, the Abbott appointee who was secretary of state before Whitley.

He’s a close friend and former chief of staff to Governor Abbott so he deserves it no matter how incompetent he is.

All the best people, all the best people.

 

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0 Comments to “More Crazy From Texas”


  1. Nobody in the current state government is worth even a tenth of that.

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  2. Buttermilk Sky says:

    But he has a pencil neck! Isn’t that bad?

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  3. An organ grinder can’t put on a decent show without his faithful monkey banging the cymbals together.

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  4. RepubAnon says:

    He earned that pay raise by lying in order to give Trump s talking point.

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  5. maryelle says:

    Republican corruption knows no bounds.
    The Monet these grifters have stolen woul feed clothe and
    house so many families. It’s so depressing.

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  6. Is there any sort of remedy that TX citizens can use to negate this sham?

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  7. Mark Schlemmer says:

    Hannah – Real manly Texans, and a goodly number of the God fearing women, do talk of a fabled “2nd Amendment Solution.”
    This fella here, with his scrawny neck and weak chin makes me think jes’ a BB gun might do the trick.

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  8. My pay and raises are based on the market and how well the company does. The crooks that get elected should have their pay & raises based on how well the gov’mint does and on the average raise of the country AND NO!!! the amount the top 2% gets should NOT count in this.

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  9. Hannah, I answered some of your questions over on this older thread:

    https://juanitajean.com/ok-i-give-up/#comments

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  10. Our Texas tax dollars at work… What, doesn’t it give y’all such a warm fuzzy feeling?
    You know that the whole scheme was intentional, and carefully planned from the start.
    If only the Democrats were as good at planning tactical and strategic stuff.

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  11. Grandma Ada says:

    Houston firefighters got pay parity with HPD, perhaps school teachers should go for pay parity with the Secretary of State!

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