Ulman donates raise to charity
My earlier blog criticized Howard County Executive Ken Ulman for taking a $7,000 raise at a time of fiscal austerity. My apologies to Mr. Ulman. He's giving the raise to charity, says spokesman Kevin Enright. That's the right thing to do. I should've done more research before posting. Now Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon should profit from Ulman's standup example, but there's no evidence so far that she has.
Comments
I don't get this as a good thing. He gave $7G of public money and gave it to a private charity? That's basically raiding the public treasury to benefit some private group. Why not keep it public and use it to pave roads or repair sewers or some other legit public business?
Posted by: Cheap Jim | December 11, 2008 8:52 AM
And now it seems Dixon will be siphoning the money to a church. When did we have a vote saying we wanted this particular church to be favored over any other? What I'm saying is that the net effect is a transfer of money from the public sphere to the pockets of a religious organization. And I have a problem with that.
Posted by: Cheap Jim again | December 13, 2008 1:57 PM
The general employees get screwed every year while the unions and politicians benefit. The fact that he gave this money to charity does not excuse a 7% raise while the rest of workforce gets a measly 3% which does not even pass as an adequate cost of living increase. The county should stop crying poor mouth. Maybe at the beginning of the next fiscal year the general employees can earn a little more then the scraps they are thrown year after year since they can afford to pay this chump 7%.
Posted by: Mr. Anderson | December 16, 2008 4:48 PM