The Daniels administration is backing away from Richard Rhoad’s sweetheart crony deal after they got caught giving him an $80,000 pay raise for doing the same job.
Said FSSA chief Mitch Roob, “And we would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling reporters and their dog.” Or maybe I’m confusing this with a Scooby Doo episode.
TDW’s Jennifer Wagner gets a quote:
“It’s too bad it had to take a public call for investigation to get the Daniels administration to understand the situation,†Indiana Democratic Party spokeswoman Jennifer Wagner said.
AFSCME union spokesman had similar sentiments:
Employee union AFSCME responded swiftly to the news Tuesday, saying it was unfortunate the Daniels’ administration only made changes after being caught.
“Governor Daniels should remember that he’s not running a corporation anymore, where you can make up the rules to serve executives at the expense of stockholders or employees,†union spokesman David Patterson said. “He’s serving Hoosiers who work hard to pay their taxes to fund important programs, not to pay for higher salaries for executives.â€
The Daniels administration primarily hid behind statements saying, essentially, we didn’t do anything wrong, but we’ll back off because it looks bad because the evil press mischaracterized the deal.
Its the first thing Daniels learned at the “Karl Rove School of Executive Action.”
Do what you want, until you get caught, and then blame the media. *Oh, and if the legislature is run by your party, continue doing what you’re doing, they don’t have the balls to perform oversight anyway.