[CORRECTION: It was a $45,000 raise, from $68,000 to $133,000. I'm not sure if I read the initial report wrong or if it was corrected later.]
Yeah, I know that sounds like a bad joke, but unfortunately for the city, April Fool’s Day has come and gone. The House approved a bill yesterday that will give Larry Langford an $88,000 raise (from $45,000 to $133,000) and an $800 a month car allowance. The bill would also allow the Birmingham city council to set its own pay. If it passes the Senate, Larry’s raise will go into effect a month later.
Rep. John Rogers (D-Race Course, Dome, Aquarium, anything that might get his name on it) sponsored this giant dump on the taxpaying citizens of Birmingham. Yeah, I know you get what you pay for, and I have no problem with reasonable compensation for someone who’s proven his or her competence. So far, Larry’s presided over at least two financial debacles (those would be VisionLand and the JeffCo sewer bond mess, although the second dwarfs the first), and since he became mayor he’s built his own private smoking deck, instituted Bible study on city time, alienated former allies, intimidated the city council, tried to intimidate local news media, twisted himself into a pretzel trying to explain numbers that don’t add up, bought burlap sacks for city leaders to wear…I could go on, but I need to finish this before our weekly Friday thunderstorm hits.
Funny, I can’t see anything on that list that would merit more than tripling his current compensation. So why on earth would John Rogers push this? Speculation, anyone?
Let’s hope the usual gridlock in the Senate puts this bill where it belongs — in the recycling bin.
h/t Jonathan
Well, at least your Mayor didn’t dump a Homeless Mission in your back yard and use 3.9 million of your tax dollars to dumb on you with. Have you checked out what is happening in Huntsville?
Guess he needs the money to pay for his clothes from Shaia’s and his glasses from Schaeffer’s–or he should at least get those free for being in the ad…ha ha.
Hey, if I run your campaign and get you voted in mayor of Birmingham, will you keep me on staff?? Ok, so I did those gay porn movies, but that was all last week and I”m a different person now. Literally different. And I love God. And all that.