Day: December 3, 2009

Chris Christie Praises Fellow U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan

New Jersey Governor-elect Chris Christie, last night, at back-to-back fundraisers praised the character and other attributes of Pat Meehan who is the GOP nominee to represent Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District which is being vacated by Joe “Chicken Little” Sestak who is seeking Arlen “Henny Penny” Specter’s senate seat.

Hey Joe and Arlen, did you hear that the global warming scare is a scam and we don’t need to be impoverished by higher energy costs after all? Probably not since you both depend on the Philadelphia Inquirer and the obsolete network newscasts for information.

Christie got to know Meehan while both served as U.S. attorneys — Christie for New Jersey and Meehan for Eastern Pennsylvania.

“We proved on Nov. 3 against Barack Obama’s buddy John Corzine …that if your message is right and your candidate is strong and yourcandidate’s supporters are strong, that victory can be yours,” said Christie referring to his upset victory in that heavy Democratic state.

PoliticsPa.Com has a good story regarding the event, although I don’t know if I’d call the Concordville Inn “swanky”.

Pa Employees Who Make 200K

There are 25 state employees with salaries over $200,000, not including all the bennies of course.

Twenty-three of them are involved in education with five  of them from the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA); four of them  from the  Pennsylvania Public School Employees’s Retirement System, (PSERS); and three remarkably enough professors at Clarion University albeit the Clarion income includes compensation beyond base pay.

The jive 25 are:

1.  John C. Cavanaugh, chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, $327,500.
2.  James Preston, president and CEO of the PHEAA, $320,000.
3.  Scott Miller, Washington lobbyist for the PHEAA, $290,000.
4.  Stephen Curtis, president of Philadelphia Community College, $277,584 (includes housing and car allowance).
5.  Alan Van Noord, chief investment office for the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’s Retirement System, (PSERS) $251,542.
6.  Tony Atwater, president of Indiana University, $244,620.
7.   Brian Hudson, executive director of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, $240,006.
8.  John Winchester, chief investment officer of the State Employees Retirement System,  $236,265.
9.  Alex Johnson president of Allegheny County Community College, $222,525.
10.Thomas R. Vilber, psychology professor at Clarion University, $217,882.
11. Brian Lecher, chief information officer at the PHEAA, $217,757.
12. Timothy Guenther, chief financial officer at the PHEAA, $217,757.
13. Angelo Armenti, president of California University, $213,000.
14. James W. Blake, professor at Clarion University,$209,841.
15. Edna V. Baehre, president of the Harrisburg Community College, $209,600.
16. Keith T. Miller, president of Loch Haven University, $205,136.
17. Robert M. Smith, president of Slippery Rock University, $203,930 .
18.William Buchanan, professor of library science at Clarion University, $203,621.
19. Javier Cevallos, president of Kutztown University, $203,484.
20. Francine G. McNairy, president of Millersville University, $202,831.
21. Kelly Logan, executive director of public service, PHEAA, $201,178.
22. Gerard Smith, managing director PSERS, $201,018
23. Mark Heppenstall, managing director PSERS, $201,018
24. James Grossman, managing director PSERS, $201,018
25.  Linda Lamwers, interim president of West Chester University, $200,000

Photos of some of them can be found here.

A list of other highly paid state workers can be found at this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette page.

 

Pa Employees Who Make 200K

Pa  Employees Who Make 200K