Cut state worker pay, but not ours
Publicola posted a funny little irony the other day that I just noticed:
Last week, state Attorney General Rob McKenna editorialized on the Seattle Times op-ed page against planned state employee raises, co-writing (along with three other state GOP leaders): “Taxpayers should … be spared from funding $83 million in planned pay raises for 21,000 state workers.”
He was referring to a state employee incentive program known as “step increases.”
But last year, according to a recent report from the state’s Department of Personnel, McKenna himself gave nearly $600,000 in performance-based incentives (part of the step increase program) to 901 of his 1321 employees. That’s 68 percent of his staff.
Odds that someone in the mainstream media calls this out? 10:1? 10,000:1?
