Holy Diver

Lets see....

College Dropout --- Check
worked for a lobbyist -----Check
Multiple DUIs ------- Check
81k / year ----Check


With no degree and little expertise, Wisconsin Governor’s appointee pulls in big bucks | The Raw Story

Most guys in their mid-20s would be staring down a decade of riding the bus after a couple drunk driving convictions.

That one reason why Wisconsinites aren't necessarily happy to hear that the young Brian Deschane, the son of a lobbyist for the Wisconsin Builders Association and a major Walker donor, is now earning $81,500 a year on their dime.

And lucky him: In Brian's first two months on the job, he even landed a 26 percent pay raise, according to The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. It's a very generous percentage too -- unlike Wisconsin teachers, who typically make about half of Deschane's salary and see their pay increase only 21 percent every 10 years.

Mrs.PatsFanInVa

There's an even better, more detailed story here.

No degree, little experience pay off big - JSOnline

Patronage is alive and well in Wisconsin, apparently. I'll bet this goes over big with the average Joe and Jane.

I especially like the part where Walker's recently approved law that made all the collective bargaining changes also converted 37 top agency attorneys, communications officials and legislative liaisons from civil service positions to jobs appointed by the governor.

How much you want to bet none of those 37 guys will be taking a pay cut?

The Brandon Five

Cut? I'd put money on them getting raises.

Mrs.PatsFanInVa

Oh, I would to but I'm not allowed to say so because I am a "leftie" and it would be partisan of me to even suggest it.

patsfan13

Gee a guy who worked on pubbie campaigns got a political patronage job, What a shocker.

That never happens with dems.

__________________
"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

Mrs.PatsFanInVa

And that's one of the reasons you don't vote for them, remember?

Why aren't you as enraged at Walker as you would be at a democratic governor?

Isn't that just a bit hypocritical of you?

chicowalker

simply can't condemn a Republican, can you?

scout

It's one determinate of having credibility.

Mrs.PatsFanInVa

Do you think it's that or do you think it's because his father and his father's corporation donated $121,652 to Walker's campaign?

patsfan13

I don't vote for dems/progressives because they want to spend too much money. Walker is cutting the bottom line. That is good for the public overall, as to individual appt who cares.

If he were paying off the unions and continuing unsustainable growth in government spending you wouldn't care about this 'sin' either.

__________________
"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."