Post by lilly on Jan 30, 2011 9:59:14 GMT -5
From today's Newsday:
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9 Hempstead Animal Shelter workers topped $100G
www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/9-hempstead-animal-shelter-workers-topped-100g-1.2646882
It's nice work if you can get it.
Nine Hempstead Animal Shelter employees - one-third of the full-time staff - were paid more than $100,000 in 2010. Eight of them have GOP ties. Of those, six were elected to Nassau GOP committee seats in 2009, the last year elections were held. Three hold or have held leadership posts at GOP clubs. All but one has donated repeatedly to the local party, to Republican Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray, or to both, records show.
The shelter's $3-million payroll dwarfs the total budgets of each of the eight other municipal shelters on Long Island, where only two employees - shelter directors in Oyster Bay and Smithtown - were paid more than $100,000 last year.
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There is plenty more to read in the paper. Apparently the shelter is well-staffed with leaders of the Wantagh and Seaford Republican Clubs.
And the operating #'s are shameful. Looks like lots of wasteful spending relative to the amount of handled animals.
Kate Murray not seeing anything wrong yet. The shelter has been under investigation since October by Rice's office and it is still unclear to me what is being investigated. Ouch.
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9 Hempstead Animal Shelter workers topped $100G
www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/9-hempstead-animal-shelter-workers-topped-100g-1.2646882
It's nice work if you can get it.
Nine Hempstead Animal Shelter employees - one-third of the full-time staff - were paid more than $100,000 in 2010. Eight of them have GOP ties. Of those, six were elected to Nassau GOP committee seats in 2009, the last year elections were held. Three hold or have held leadership posts at GOP clubs. All but one has donated repeatedly to the local party, to Republican Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray, or to both, records show.
The shelter's $3-million payroll dwarfs the total budgets of each of the eight other municipal shelters on Long Island, where only two employees - shelter directors in Oyster Bay and Smithtown - were paid more than $100,000 last year.
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There is plenty more to read in the paper. Apparently the shelter is well-staffed with leaders of the Wantagh and Seaford Republican Clubs.
And the operating #'s are shameful. Looks like lots of wasteful spending relative to the amount of handled animals.
Kate Murray not seeing anything wrong yet. The shelter has been under investigation since October by Rice's office and it is still unclear to me what is being investigated. Ouch.