Garden State Politics

Posted by admin on February 5th, 2010 in Uncategorized

You could almost see it coming:

Mayor Dana Redd has added at least five former aides to former Gov. Jon Corzine to her staff.

Redd, who was sworn in last month, has faced criticism from Republicans for pushing to increase the maximum salaries for some top staff positions.

Redd said she needed the higher guidelines to be able to hire the former state employees at their former salaries.

So she didn’t need higher pay to get qualified people. She just wanted to make sure her buddies didn’t have to take a reasonable pay cut. You know, it’s the old “friends-and-family” theory of hiring. Given that the new mayor is starting out with a rash of budget busting patronage moves, should we perhaps start wondering how long it will be until the state takes over (again) and the new mayor has to join the old one?

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