"Retiring DeNucci increases staff pay; Auditor’s office defends 5% hike; move may stoke anger from voters" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | August 11, 2010
Despite an economic downturn and widespread job and wage cuts for many workers, outgoing state Auditor A. Joseph DeNucci has awarded a 5 percent raise to his staff, retroactive to July 1.
A DeNucci spokesman defended the raises, which he said would cost about $350,000 through the end of the year, as just compensation for a staff that has not seen a pay boost in nearly four years and has taken 11 furlough days over the last two years, a concession equivalent to a 4 percent wage reduction.
When people are being turned out of their homes and jobs they don't care.
Those people still working, right?
And now their taxpayer-funded pensions just got upgraded.
But DeNucci’s move as he prepares to leave office could anger state workers and many in the private sector workforce who have lost their jobs, seen their unemployment benefits run out, or been forced to contend with pay and benefit cuts.
Indeed, the state budget that took effect July 1 is expected to lead to scores of layoffs elsewhere in state government, which was hit hard by the recession....
Remember when they told you the sales tax increase would mean no cuts?
All right, well, who is replacing him?
"Confident Patrick rides tailwind; On top of the polls, hopes to reenergize activists at Democratic convention" by Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | June 4, 2010
The most contentious battle at the convention appears to be over the endorsement for state auditor, in which a colorful social conservative and pro-gun candidate, Worcester County Sheriff Guy Glodis, is running against former state representative Suzanne M. Bump, a social progressive, and political activist Michael Lake.
Glodis, a 41-year-old former state senator, has created some uproar in his political career, enough so that he is taking pains to tell delegates and the media that he has matured as a public figure. Many remember his offhand, at times insulting, remarks aimed at women, Muslims, and other political figures, including Boston’s mayor, Thomas M. Menino.
The Globe seems to trudge on day after day without much trouble.
“I have certainly grown and matured since I was first elected,’’ Glodis, who first came to the House at age 27 in 1996, said in an interview this week. He has accumulated more than $800,000 in his campaign account, compared with Bump’s war chest of about $50,000.
That explains all the signs around town. Haven't been Bumped yet.
His conservative positions on social issues differ from those of candidates that Democratic conventions traditionally back. But Glodis is also an affable glad-hander, and his dogged pursuit of delegates has put him a good position to do well at the convention, party insiders say.
Bump has strong support from the progressive wing of the party, but she appears to be getting little help from the governor.
That is the loser wing of the party.
A former secretary of labor and workforce development under Patrick, Bump alienated the governor and his circle when she flirted with a run for office while still in the cabinet.
Oh, how things (never) change.
Glodis, with a long list of union endorsements, also appears to have cut her off from some labor backing....
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Glodis need only look out for Boston Globe bumps in the road:
"2 more on ballot failed to pay tax; Timothy Murray, Glodis say they erred; As with Cahill camp, CD gains are at issue" by Frank Phillips and Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | September 2, 2010
Uh-oh!
Two high-profile Democrats, the lieutenant governor and a candidate for state auditor, acknowledged yesterday that they also had not paid required taxes on investment income earned on their campaign accounts.
The campaigns of Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray and state auditor hopeful Guy Glodis scrambled yesterday to explain their tax delinquencies, just a day after state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill acknowledged that he had failed to pay as much as $15,000 in state taxes that his committee owed on interest income over the past decade....
See: Globe's Governor's Race: State Treasurer Didn't Pay His Taxes
And these are the guys most responsible for looking after your tax dollars!?!?
State and federal income tax laws have previously tripped up Attorney General Martha Coakley. Her campaign staff disclosed yesterday that it had discovered in 2009 that it had failed to pay taxes on her political committee’s investments at Fidelity from 2006 and 2008....
Yeah, why not make it a hat-trick?
Also see: Who Bought Brown's Election?
Brownie had bigger backers.
The revelations about Glodis, who is vowing to hold Beacon Hill accountable for spending if elected auditor, comes at a tough political time for him. He is in a three-way race with a former state representative, Suzanne Bump, and political activist Mike Lake in the Democratic primary less than two weeks away.
It is the second controversy he has faced in as many weeks. The Globe previously reported that Glodis did not list on his state ethics disclosure forms the true source of a $20,000 loan from a controversial hedge fund manager who was later jailed for stealing $12.5 million of his clients’ funds.
Have fun making your choice, DemocraPs.
And this guy wants to be auditor?
Days after he got the loan, Glodis, who was then running for sheriff, gave his campaign $22,000. He said the money that he deposited in his account had no connection to the loan he received from the hedge fund owner....
Do yourself a favor, Democrats: VOTE REPUBLICAN THIS YEAR!
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Related:
"Murray campaign pays $936 in back taxes
Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray’s campaign committee has sent checks totaling $936 to federal and state tax agencies, after a review of the interest income it had earned for 2006 through 2009. Murray’s review was prompted this week after the Globe made inquiries to several major office holders, including state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, the independent candidate for governor, and Democratic state auditor candidate Guy Glodis, as to why their committees had not paid some of their taxes on interest earned on investments in bank certificates of deposit. Cahill’s committee said it paid the state Department of Revenue $15,000 in back taxes, calling its delinquency “just an oversight.’’ Glodis, the Worcester County sheriff, sent the state a check to cover $2,568 in back taxes.
Yeah, but we couldn't overlook the STINKING STENCH of CORRUPTION, sorry!
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So for whom will I cast my vote on primary day?
"The convention endorsed Mary Z. Connaughton, an accountant and former Turnpike Authority board member, for state auditor, with 85 percent of the vote. But her rival, Kamal Jain, a candidate inspired by Ron Paul, the libertarian conservative, slipped through to the primary by one vote on a recount, party officials said"
Yeah, I still have an R next to my name.
Haven't gotten around to changing it, and why would I?
