The Oklahoman
While boards and commissions generally set pay hikes, Gov. Mary Fallin personally has given substantial raises to state agency directors.
Fallin raised the pay for Oklahoma’s secretary of state by $50,000 when she appointed Chris Benge to the position a year ago. Benge is paid $140,000 a year. His predecessor was paid $90,000.
The governor approved an even larger $63,833 a year raise for Preston Doerflinger, director of the state Office of Management and Enterprise Services. She bumped his annual pay in July from $108,000 to $171,833.
Both raises were larger than any of the 48 agency director pay hikes approved by state boards and commissions that prompted the governor to express skepticism earlier this week. Thirty of those raises were $10,000 or more.
Oh the hipocrasy!!! She is incensed when someone else pays their leadership more money but forgets that she is the ring leader of paying out huge salaries to her buddies. When will we finally demand honesty and integrity in our elected officials??? Maybe November 4th will be a good time to remind them that we are tired of politics as usual.
Income tax cuts and hughmongus pay raises – I guess if you get those raises, you need those tax cuts.
Will we get four more years of that?