Every time I listen to NJ Chris Christie I want to stand up and salute. Today is no different.
Please watch this 4 minute video where Chris Christie blasts LeRoy Seitz, Superintendent of Schools for the Parsippany School District about Seitz's threat to leave the state if his salary is reduced to $175,000.
NorthJersey.com has more details in Governor sets sights on Seitz contract
Last week the Parsippany-Troy Hills Board of Education voted 6-2 to renew Superintendent LeRoy Seitz's contract, which included a 2 percent per year salary increase.I Applaud LeRoy Seitz
What made the contract noteworthy, aside from the dozens of people that spoke out against it and the tongue lashing the Board and the Superintendent received from Gov. Chris Christie was that the contract Seitz is currently working under doesn't expire until July 1, 2011.
The Board began contract negotiations during the summer, at about the same time the Christie administration released information about a plan to cap chief administrator's salaries and tying the numbers to the enrollment in the district.
By finalizing the contract now the Board effectively agreed to give Seitz a salary well above the governor's proposed cap for almost five years.
At the Board meeting Mark Tabakin, the Board attorney, told the gathering of about 90 people that the cap is still in the proposal form, that the contract was approved by the County Executive Superintendent Kathleen Serafino and that it is a legal action. "People are upset," he acknowledged, "but it's up to the will of the Board."
The controversial contract drew township residents and protesters from as far away as Clifton and Hackettstown, who were outraged over the Board's end run around the proposed cap.
At times the dissenters were so vocal Board President Anthony Mancuso, who remained calm and in control throughout the proceedings, had to call for a 10-minute recess to let the outbursts subside. The police were also called during one of the breaks though they never had the need to take action.
When the public was allowed to speak the floodgates opened. Taking a sarcastic tact the first speaker Roman Hoshovsky said, "How can anyone be expected to live on $200,000?" Then he produced an empty canister and proposed using it as a collection jar in businesses around town to raise money for Seitz.
Barbara Hackling pointed out the Board had laid off teachers and refused to negotiate with the paraprofessionals, "but found money for him."
Karen Blunt, a 36-year Parsippany resident and a paraprofessional in the district said, "He is looking out for his future. I haven't had a raise in 4 years who is looking out for my future?"
The day before the meeting Seitz is quoted in the Daily Record as saying, "Because of the proposed salary caps, I have to look at my future and the financial welfare of my family. I certainly would have options if I didn't feel the compensation in this district, or New Jersey, is appropriate."
The governor reacted to Seitz's veiled threats to leave New Jersey and go to a nearby state where there is no state salary. "I will say in response to Mr. Seitz, 'Let me help you pack.' We have real problems in our state that we have to fix and we don't have the time, nor the money, nor the patience any longer for people who put themselves before our citizens," Christie railed.
A tip of the hat goes to LeRoy Seitz for being such an arrogant SOB that that the meeting to discuss the new contract overflowed with citizens fed up with school board greed.
It is not easy standing up to thugs who want nothing more but to raise your taxes. But the voters did. That's how riled up they were.
I recommend voters in the Parsippany School District send a message to the ignoramuses who agreed to give LeRoy Seitz a new contract. Vote them off the school board.
Fortunately it takes approval from another level to agree to that raise, so the raise is not a done deal yet.
New Jersey taxpayers are fed up, and rightfully so. If LeRoy Seitz thinks he can get $212,000 elsewhere, more power to him. The same holds true for every public "servant". If you can get more in the private sector, shut up and do it.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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Dominic Pileggi, majority
leader of the Pennsylvania Senate, says privatizing the state's
liquor stores has "moved up to the top of the agenda" now that
Pennsylvania will have a Republican governor as well as a
GOP-controlled legislature. The New York Times notes
that incoming Gov. Tom Corbett (currently attorney general) "must
consider both a budget gap that could run as high as $5 billion and
his campaign pledge not to raise taxes." Getting the state out of
the booze business, the Times says, "would potentially
bring $2 billion for state coffers, but also layoffs of several
thousand state workers."
Allow me to question that but. The Times warns
that Pennsylvania's privatization plans are "endangering the jobs
of thousands of state workers." But if you believe states should
not participate in, let alone monopolize, profit-making businesses,
the fact that privatization reduces the public payroll while saving
on operating expenses and improving customer service hardly counts
as a disadvantage. Private businesses that sell wine and liquor do
employ people, by the way. But even if they were operated by
robots, how seriously can we take the argument that unnecessary
government jobs should not be eliminated because then there will be
fewer unnecessary government jobs? And if Corbett decided to
preserve the state stores and cover the deficit by raising taxes,
wouldn't that decision also have an impact on employment? Or is it
only government-directed money that creates jobs?
As I noted
in August, privatization advocates also have been known to argue,
with a logic
familiar to fans and foes of President Obama's stimulus package,
that the business of distributing alcoholic beverages should be
designed to maximize jobs—i.e., to be as inefficient as possible.
More on Pennsylvania's liquor distribution system
here. Reason coverage of liquor privatization in
Virginia
here.
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