Arkansas Blog

Still do not understand why Arkies must pay Passailaigue over 40% more than So.Carolina for the same job in this smaller state. Is he getting relocation expense allowances too?

Pass on the extra start-up work. He did that in So. Carolina too at a lower salary.

I agree with eLwood. I think prior experience is important and we probably did have to go out of state to find it but....... Perhaps if this would have been an agreement for start up administrative/planning costs and we'd used a consultant's contract for this. Then, afterwards, staff it with salaries more congruent with others in the state system. This has got to be 2 X plus what John Selig makes as DHS Director and it would seem to me that his job is more challenging and at a much larger scope than this one. I'm just saying............

I thought everyone involved with Sanford and the South Carolina lottery eventually went to jail???

Why are we following South Carolina's model? at 324K a year no less?

Ya know, I think a REAL believer in the lottery system would take an offer of $80 grand base salary..like a department head ...and the remainder of his her compensation would be $100 in free lotto tickets every Saturday. If he hits, he hits.

Orval, I did not go to jail. I just accepted South Carolina public housing and meals for a short time.

Orval, I did not go to jail. I just accepted South Carolina public housing and meals for a short time.

Anyone have a clue how one pronounces Passailaigue? What does it rhyme with? Sounds sorta Episcopalian to me.

This is just the beginning of watching the predicted enormous "windfall" profits of a state lottery winnowed away by those running it and just a minimal actual benefit to students and scholarships to tempt the legislaturem to keep the lottery. The profits will not be as predicted, the costs will be more more than predicted or will be predicted, and the benefits to students and scholarships may not even equate to the actual benefits to students of the Murphy Promise gift.

After watching eight years of "greed is good" at the national level, now we get to see it here in Arkansas.

Cynical? You betch ya!

I just watched a job salary budgeted for a very generous $141,603 by the legislature be raised 228% without a single whimper or protest. So bend over and never protest about outrageous CEO salaries again, Arkansas. We have met the enemy and it is us!

Just remember while the deficit skyrockets to new heights along with unemployment, the old saying that was the theme of Busheviks and Neocons for so long although they never said it outright, "Greed is good!"