Posted on 06/18/2020 4:37:58 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted each said Thursday that they will return 4 percent of their respective government salaries to the state to match similar pay cuts DeWine has ordered for thousands of other state employees.
DeWine, who earned $140,989.84 as governor last year, said during a news conference that his legal counsel has told him he can’t take a pay cut directly. Instead, he said, he will write a check equal to 4 percent of his salary – which came to $5,640 in 2019.
In addition, the governor said he and First Lady Fran DeWine have decided that, going forward, he will donate half of his monthly gubernatorial salary to charity. DeWine -- a Greene County Republican who is independently wealthy -- didn’t specify which charity or charities he is giving the money to, and a gubernatorial spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for that information.
Husted, a Columbus-area Republican, said he signed paperwork Thursday morning to deduct 4 percent from his salary of $176,426 per year -- all of which comes from his post as director of InnovateOhio, as Husted foregoes the lieutenant governor’s usual $113,947 salary. Four percent of $176,426 is equal to about $7,057.
“We’re aligned with what we’re asking everybody else to do,” Husted said.
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Leadership.
Symbolic BS
Name a Rat Party...or RINO...Governor who’s done this.
Should have been minimally twice as much as others.
Both of these useless jackasses should return 100% of their salaries.
An epidemic is one way to reduce socialism.
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