Move to ghost job and back gives (Wis) Capitol Police chief big raises
Source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Chief Dave Erwin — who has overseen a crackdown on Walker protesters at the statehouse — received an overall salary hike of 11.7%, to $111,067 a year, the same rate as his predecessor. That amounts to an $11,680 annual raise.
That hefty raise was possible only because Walker officials transferred Erwin on Feb. 5 to a ghostposition in the state Department of Administration, according to a copy of the transfer letter obtained by the Journal Sentinel. Then, on the same day, he was shuffled back to his real job as head of the Capitol Police force.
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Peter Fox — who served as employment relations secretary under then-Gov. Tommy Thompson, a Republican — said the moves were legal but a "charade" performed for favored employees. Fox said he was basing his comments on what he knew of state practices from his tenure more than a decade ago.
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Department of Administration spokeswoman Stephanie Marquis said that since Erwin and Blackdeer are considered civil servants, neither could have received such a large pay increase without the paper transfers. She said both men remained in their police roles and did not work in the jobs to which they were supposedly transferred.
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What the fuck?!
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