Posted on 01/22/2006 4:20:21 AM PST by SheLion
The governor's annual salary, which is the lowest in the nation, was last increased in 1987 when it jumped from $35,000 to $70,000.
If the bill passes, the governor's pay would jump to more than $220,000, or 10 percent higher than $200,850 salary of the chancellor of University of Maine System, according to the Legislature's fiscal office.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Joining Maine at the low end of the pay scale are Arkansas ($75,296), Nebraska and Tennessee ($85,000), and North Dakota ($85,506), according to The Book of the States 2005.
The highest-paid governors come from New York ($179,000), Michigan ($177,000) and California ($175,000).
Seems like a lot of money for a part-time job.
Thanks for this link! I haven't checked the URL lately and didn't know the pictures was there. I'm surprized that Rep Tom Allen isn't with Baldy on this trip. I thought he went too!
Are these lefties trying to make Maine as successful an economy as Cuba or other bitterly failed communist regimes?
The photo shown above was taken at a reception for the Maine delegation, which Fidel Castro attended, and during which time a Proclamation was presented by the Governor which called for normalization of relations with Cuba. Seen in the photo are the President of Cuba, Fidel Castro, the Democratic Governor of Maine, John Elias Baldacci, Democrat House Speaker John Richardson, and Democrat Representative Edward Dugay.
Northeast liberals:doing well by doing good!
Didn't you read the article? Baldacci is on record as being opposed to the bill, and would never see the raise even if it were passed and he were re-elected.
You lay down with pigs you are going to smell like them.
I don't know who's stink is going to rub off on whom here. Castro onto Baldacci or Baldacci onto Castro. It's anybody's guess.
The trouble with this is: Baldacci brought that stink back to Maine.
Well, I thought his boyfriend, Rep Tom Allen went as well. Guess not.
Wonder if the Zombie. a rabid anti-smoker, had any fine Cuban cigars while he was there? Maybe he brought some back for Clinton.
That friggin' idiot of a Governor isn't worth the old salary!
My neighborhood's bigger than Maine.
(ahhh sticking up for the little man are we?)
If the bill passes, the governor's pay would jump to more than $220,000, or 10 percent higher than $200,850 salary of the chancellor of University of Maine System, according to the Legislature's fiscal office.
But Gov. John Baldacci does not support the bill, said his spokeswoman Crystal Canney. Baldacci would not be affected by the raise, even if re-elected.
Ok. Explain this: IF the bill goes through do you mean to tell me that Baldy will not accept the pay raise? Baldy talks a good game but I doubt very much if he would turn this raise down. Just looks good on paper with him saying this.
If he turns it down, IF the bill is passed, I will believe it when I see it. How's that?
I've seen photos of him with a big stogie hanging from his mouth.
No I believe it means that the pay raise does not apply to the current governor regardless of re-election. He won't have a chance to accept it or not accept it. He won't get it. If the GOP is behind the raise then they must believe that the next governor is going to be a Republican.
Your neighborhood is bigger then the state of Maine?
"But Gov. John Baldacci does not support the bill, said his spokeswoman Crystal Canney. Baldacci would not be affected by the raise, even if re-elected."
If Baldacci is re-elected why wouldn't it affect him? Why pass a bill and let it lay in limbo?
John BaldMarxist and his Minions are really trying to drive this old Train called Maine over the cliff, eh?
I believe you are right. And I heard tale that the MSM of Maine is on his side. So, not much that he does today makes it into the press. I guess the newspapers are trying to "protect" him from ridicule. ugh!
Well you live there, why not read your own state constitution? Article V, Section 6: "The Governor shall, at stated times, receive for services a compensation, which shall not be increased or diminished during the Governor's continuance in office."
Happy?
Happy?
What boggles my mind is how quick you are to defend him. Are you sure you are in the right forum?
What's worse, defending someone against unfair attack regardless of their party affiliation? Or condemning someone without reason just because of their party affiliation? If I'm going to err in your eyes then I prefer to err on the side of truth and not blind bigotry.
Next time do your homework and we won't disagree.
Next time do your homework and we won't disagree.
Listen, not to sound mean and nasty, but I checked my ping list to make sure you weren't on it!
Also, you have to LIVE under the Baldacci Regime to know how unhappy a lot of us are. Blind bigotry? LOL that's a good one. What state do YOU live in btw?
The Baldacci (D-ME) Psalm or The future of Maine
Governor Baldacci is my shepherd. I shall not want.
He leadeth me beside still factories.
He showeth me empty stores.
He restoreth my doubt in government budgets.
He guideth me to the path of unemployment.
He annointeth the legislative budgetmakers, so that my tax burden runnethover my income.
He giveth in to the MEA agenda for schools which teach not the three Rs.
He giveth in to the enviros who maketh a National Park of my home.
He giveth me jobs waiting table on people From Away who can afford vacations.
Surely, poverty and hard living shall follow the Baldacci Administration and
I shall liveth in a trailer forever.
May 21, 2005 Quote:"A source inside of
-She sounded pretty frosty in a soundbyte yesterday, regarding base closings...
Question: Is there even a remote chance that Maine got spanked because of our RINO's and irresponsible Governor?
I don't think so, but have heard that muttered here and there...
Base closings, Rummie snubbing Baldacci, I don't know what to make of it, but I do have this to say:
I love Maine, for the first time in 20 years I'm thinking about getting the hell out of this State because of the way it's run.
Maine needs a Governator, Baldacci -should- be getting a no confidence vote.
My opinion of him continues to plummet, as does his approval rating.
The scary thought is that he'll probably be reelected.
What a freaking mess."
"What do you mean funny, funny how?" :-)
Well then I'm sure that you have a lot of actual problems and issues that you can blame him for. Why slam him for something he has no control over? It's the GOP who submitted it, Baldacci can't profit from it. But you blame him for it.
What state do YOU live in btw?
Kansas. We have our own problems with our own governor out here. But I don't blame her for things she had nothing to do with.
BALDACCI AND ALLEN SEEK FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO ADDRESS INFLUX OF SOMALI IMMIGRANTS
June 6, 2002
Representatives Baldacci and Allen called for $100,000 in funding to enable Catholic Charities of Maine to provide needed services to Somali immigrants in Lewiston and other communities. Catholic Charities provides outreach and assistance to refugees and immigrants.
Maine has a hard time finding work and feeding their own. Yet Baldacci and Allen want an INFLUX of immigrants! What's up with this!
June 22, 2005
I just got a phone call that claims that 400 more Somalians have recently come to Maine, 200 in Portland and 200 more in L/A.
The caller also stated that they are receiving compensation in the 60K a year range.
Any one have any collaboration or corrections on this?
Thanks
It's Against Federal Law to be a Sanctuary State for Illegal Aliens (Maine)
Immigration lawyers supporting illegal aliens are pushing Governor Baldacci to sign an executive order that will stop state agencies from questioning a person's immigration status.
Even more unsettling is the title of the order: AN ORDER REGARDING INQUIRIES INTO IMMIGRATION STATUS. It reads, "I, John E. Baldacci, Governor of the State of Maine, do hereby order that no State agencies question any person about his or her immigration status and engage in any activities for the purpose of ascertaining the immigration status of any person."
Baldacci and Tom Allen) are big spenders of taxpayer dollars. (Unknown Maine Source).
You know, I have found that just downloading and distributing their immigration voting records is effective in converting most Democrats I know to the Republican side.
People just didn't know--and they are often shocked. No one wants more of the same, not to mention more budget problems.
They have voted in every way possible for:
1. annual net immigration of 1.3 million poor, illiterate people from third world countries, who are overcrowding American schools, depressing wages for American workers, contributing to one-half of all sprawl, overwhelming American hospitals, and reproducing babies at rates 3 to 45 times the rate of Americans, not to mention fiscally breaking the backs of American state and local governments and the American taxpayers.
2. They have repeatedly voted to extend amnesty to illegal aliens (8 to 11 million of them in the country now).
3. They have repeatedly voted in support of H1B visas, displacing 1 million American technical workers and resulting in no job opportunities for recent American college grads. And they continue to support an increase in the number of h1B visas.
4. They have each played a major role in preventing any efforts brought about by members of Congress who, in accordance with the wishes of 70% of the American people, sought to bring about even the slightest immigration reform in terms of lower refugee and immigrant numbers.
5. They have repeatedly voted in favor of chain migration, where the elderly, social-security-collecting parents, husbands, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, married children and so on, are guaranteed entry into America consequent to one migrant. (the young working Chinese have turned social security into a commodity industry for their elderly parents)
6.They have voted for automatic citizenship for any child born to illegal immigrants on American soil. This has resulted in foreign businesses where pregnant women from poor countries like China and Africa pay to be flown here just when they're about to deliver.
And then there is the Somali situation in Lewiston.
What a coward is Mr. Baldacci.
While I know that the base closing issue was used to political advantage by Bush Senior and by Clinton, one would still hope that the base closing decision was made on what was best for our national defense and not because of Snowe and Collins and Baldacci.
The scary thought is that he'll probably be reelected.
See? Now you have something to complain about that Baldacci DOES have control over.
Apparently the phony 'conservatives' who lurk at FR aren't confined just to the smoking threads.
You noticed that too, huh?
Well then what the heck, you two are thinking much too small. If truth means nothing to you then why not blame Baldacci for the Bird Flu or the spread of AIDs? Why not say that Saddam Hussain hid all his WMDs in the governors mansion in Augusta? Just think of the mileage you can get out of those.
I saved that pic to my hd so I can make up the new Baldacci campaign poster.
Which one? The one of Baldy with Castro?
What usually happens is the those sitting in power when a bill such as this is passed, don't receive the benefits of it. it is a pale attempt to keep people from reaping the profits of their own legislation.
Of course if they are re-elected, then they/he would get the raise.
That's what "I" thought. If the bill is passed and Baldacci is voted in again (heaven forbid), then he would get the raise. Why would that raise just sit in limbo? One man here said that Baldacci wouldn't get the raise, no matter what. ~sigh
Unfortunately, I don't see anyone on the horizon that can defeat Baldy. I would hope that the stupid legislature would be smart enough to kill this bill.
Unfortunately, I don't see anyone on the horizon that can defeat Baldy. I would hope that the stupid legislature would be smart enough to kill this bill.
I just read this morning but can't find the article now........that some woman switched from Democrat to Independent and she wants to run against Baldacci. Wish I could find that article.
The Zombie is a vile communist, as far as I'm concerned. But of course he will be re-elected-the majority of voters in the state(not people like you, She) are just like the ones in the other 'blue' states...sheep-to be sheared.
That would be Barbara MERRILL.
Another significant factor is the Dem. machine's talent for stealing elections; you know, the Post Office's penchant for delaying until the polls close (or "losing") absentee ballotts bearing registered Republican's return addresses (which may also be found on Voter Registration lists) or College Students patrolling around on Election Day voting 25 or 30 times each, Ballotts being "counted" in the basement of City Hall in a locked room with the windows covered over by partisan hacks - that sort of thing.
Witnesses are reluctant to go public with it as they fear (and justifiably so) loss of their jobs or other forms of union retaliation if they do.
Besides, it is unlikely that voter fraud cases against Dems would ever be prosecuted in this State.
And we are told by those who have been paying attention for much longer than I have that it's been going on with total impunity for years.
We currently have ten gubenatorial Candidates, apparently.
At least two of the Republicans strike me as being at least generally viable, and Rep. Merrill seems to be very bright and personable, and I think that she will appeal to a number of more fiscally conservative, socially liberal voters.
It ought to be interesting.
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