Being an F.O.T (Friend Of Timmy) pay$$$$$ …
It’s good to be a Friend Of Timmy™. Clayton Somers should know. He is the Democrat operative hired to be the Republican speaker’s chief of staff over on Jones Street. But he’s moving on up like George and Weezie. In January, a position was created for him in UNC administration.
Here we are in September, and things appear to be getting better and better for Somers:
A top administrator at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received two pay raises totaling $50,000 in June, just six months after being hired.[…]
Soooooo — a new job is created for you. You get a $50,000 raise six months into the gig. *Nothing hinky about THAT.* (*Um, right?*)
MORE:
Clayton Somers was hired to serve as Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill in early January. Somers come to the job from the North Carolina General Assembly, where he served as chief of staff to House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland).
The job Somers took was a newly-created vice chancellor position that expanded the role of the previous chief of public affairs at the university. The job includes managing local, state and federal relations as well as serving as the primary liaison between the UNC Chancellor’s office and the UNC Board of Trustees.
At the time he was hired in January, Somers’ annual salary was $280,000. […]
*Sigh.* Yet ANOTHER “job” with a bloated salary we wouldn’t miss if it got eliminated.
MORE:
[…] Emails obtained by WBTV show that salary was the high end of a salary cap set in place UNC System President Margaret Spellings when she agreed to approve the position that was being pitched by UNC-Chapel Hill leadership in summer 2016.
“Also, the President made clear to me this morning when she gave this the go-ahead that the salary for the new VC shall not exceed that of the new GA SVP for External Affairs, which is $280k,” UNC System Vice President for Human Resources Matt Brody wrote to Felicia Washington, Vice Chancellor for Workforce Strategy, Equity and Engagement at UNC-CH. […]
Vice-chancellor for Workforce Strategy, Equity and Engagement ???? Another ONE we wouldn’t miss!
MORE:
[…] “It may very well be less depending on who is elected, but you will want to make sure (UNC Chancellor) Carol (Folt) knows that it shouldn’t exceed that amount,” Brody continued in his email to Washington regarding the $280,000 salary cap.
The new position was approved by the UNC System Board of Governors in July 2016.
Information provided by UNC-Ch to WBTV shows Somers received two raises in June 2017, roughly six months after starting his job.
The first raise came on June 1, 2017, when his salary increased to $304,640. Later that month, on June 30, 2017, Somers’ pay was increased again to $331,448.
A spokeswoman for UNC-CH could not point to any increase in responsibility or additional roles Somers took on when receiving the roughly 18 percent pay raise. Instead, a spokeswoman pointed to two recent performance reviews that formed the basis of the five-figure pay raise.
“Since joining the University staff in January, Vice Chancellor Somers has received two excellent performance reviews, which are reflected in his current salary,” the spokeswoman said in a statement.
The university spokeswoman did not respond to multiple requests for an explanation as to why Somers’ pay was increased beyond the cap set by the UNC System at the time the new vice chancellor position was created.
This guy is making MORE than Roy Cooper AND Dan Forest combined. After six months on the job. (And his job is WHAT?)
Remember, back in the day, when Republicans used to bash Democrats for this kind of nonsense?
This, my friends, is not a Democrat vs. Republican thing. It’s statism. It’s the Ruling Class — the governing class — reaping the rewards we’re financing.
Outrageous!
Nobody has a perfect record, but I think it is safe to say that the State Senate leadership, (Phil Berger) has stuck to his principles for the most part and the State House leadership (Tim Moore) has been an absolute disgrace. It is worse than the democrats because Republicans campaigned on stopping this nonsense and now they are doing it to an even greater degree.
I used to feel that way about Berger, too, but then came the last long session of the General Assembly and that changed. First was Berger’s shameful betrayal and sellout to the corporate bullies on HB2, bathroom privacy and religious liberty. Then came his stalling of the gun rights bill in committee in the Senate. Then came his sellout of NC electric customers to the green energy special interests. Worst of all, on that last one, it looks like he was corruptly bought and paid for:
http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Articles-NEWS-and-COMMENTARY-c-2017-09-29-287435.112112-Money-in-the-wind.html
Now I am having very serious reservations about Phil Berger. Is he moving left because some incompetent jerk of a consultant told him he needed to do that to run for statewide office?
Wrong, Expose those responsible! Increase in Salary is too high!
Hey Brant, who do you suggest we start hammering to overturn this atrocity?
More reasons why people are leaving the Party but they refuse to see it or care.
The entire GOP Board of Governors should be fired and replaced. After eight years of so-called “Republican control” of the UNC system, it is still a cesspool of Democrat corruption and collusion. The leftists are still in charge and stronger than ever. Margaret Spellings has no idea what she is doing, which is to be expected from a “Bush” Republican. Conservative educational reform is just another forgotten Republican campaign promise.