Over at the San Francisco Chronicle, columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross report on the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. It seems the board members called a meeting to discuss Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneger's charge that the board wasn't "working hard enough to clear a backlog of 82,500 cases." But only two of the six members showed up, according to Matier and Ross.
We all know by now about these cushy jobs that are created for ex-politicians. They pay $128,109 a year and you don't have to do much.
Matier and Ross confirm that with this column item: "Former Republican Assemblywoman Sharon Runner, wife of state Sen. George Runner, was at a cabin near Lake Tahoe; George Plescia, the former Republican Assembly leader, was somewhere near his home in La Jolla (San Diego County); former Assemblywoman Cindy Montañez, the Democratic speaker's appointee, was in Washington, D.C.; and former Democratic state Sen. Liz Figueroa was working out of an Oakland satellite office."
Get rid of these jobs.
It is only the tip of the Ice Berg.
Giving people honary titles or make believe capacities is one thing. Paying them on top of that is another.
Comforting to know that our state government can be both inept and balanced in its approach to our problems...Good Grief!