Peter Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Wolfowitz apologizes for girlfriend's raise It is funny that he apologized for getting his girlfriend a big raise. When is he going to apologize for the war? P.S. Maybe he thought that the Iraqi oil revenues could pay for both the reconstruction and his girlfriend's raise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UConn James Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Photographic extrapolation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molson_golden2002 Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Wolfowitz apologizes for girlfriend's raise It is funny that he apologized for getting his girlfriend a big raise. When is he going to apologize for the war? P.S. Maybe he thought that the Iraqi oil revenues could pay for both the reconstruction and his girlfriend's raise. I think this guy was a true believer in the war. His girlfriend is a Palestinian. He doesn't seem like an evil man at all, just rather clueless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuntheDamnBall Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Pretty fascinating piece in last week's New Yorker on Wolfowitz. He was indeed a true believer and I'm surprised that this situation with his lady, which has been known about for awhile, is leading to his downfall just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Pretty fascinating piece in last week's New Yorker on Wolfowitz. He was indeed a true believer and I'm surprised that this situation with his lady, which has been known about for awhile, is leading to his downfall just now. You're kidding, right? Perhaps a coincidental timing with The World Bank's annual meeting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuntheDamnBall Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 You're kidding, right? Perhaps a coincidental timing with The World Bank's annual meeting. Right, but WB officials have been grumbling about this for awhile. That's all I was saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Right, but WB officials have been grumbling about this for awhile. That's all I was saying. Wouldn't you be grumbling if a new CEO came in with a stated purpose to clean up deadwood in your company? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Wouldn't you be grumbling if a new CEO came in with a stated purpose to clean up deadwood in your company? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finknottle Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 You're kidding, right? Perhaps a coincidental timing with The World Bank's annual meeting. No, the controversy had been bubbling along for some time, and the link just mentions the tip of the ice berg. If I remember correctly, beyond the promotion and raise issue there were questions about double-billing by drawing her regular salary and drawing a salary at where she was detailed. For those who are interested, she received $61,000 in raises *after* she was detailed to state, drawing a paycheck of $194k from the Bank. That alone is ~25% more than Condi Rice makes, it was reported in the Post. I thought I also read recently that there were questions raised about a previous posting, but I can't find the article (in the Wash Post, about 3 days ago). Finally, the issue first became public in the Post with the release of the minutes of a staff all-hands, or maybe a memo to the bank staff (my memory is shaky) addressing the controversy and dating a month ago, which means disgruntlement had been brewing internally considerably longer. FYI - Wolf's has two other aides drawing in the 250k range. I'm not sure how this is done, since the government used to have a salary pecking order: President > Senate > House > ... > Federal Employees (ironically, part of the reason federal employees hate when politicians vote down raises. It has a trickle effect.) *** EDIT - my mistake. Of course World Bank employees are not federal employees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Wouldn't you be grumbling if a new CEO came in with a stated purpose to clean up deadwood in your company? HECK NO! Can they come to where I work... So much dead would in the fed it isn't funny! Try to get people to work... A little manual labor is like pulling teeth out! Maybe the nation's infrastructure would be in a lot better shape... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastaJoe Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 He would have been better off asking Bush to appoint her as a District Attorney or ambassador to Belguim, where who you know is more important than what you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESPeculatioN Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Its amazing this story isn't front page news. It must be that damn liberal media again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Its amazing this story isn't front page news. It must be that damn liberal media again. Yeah, a unique story like this should be all over page 1, because cronyism never happens in government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 So, one would figure that if this was such a cut & dry case, that's been festering for two years, the bank's executive board would have tossed Wolfie over by now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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