Rep. Akin nearly doubled staff pay in final months
(CNN) - On his way out of the U.S. House, Rep. Todd Akin dramatically upped staff compensation.
In the final three months of last year, Akin's small congressional staff got more than twice what it had received in any of the previous quarters in 2012, according to records posted by legislative salary tracker Legistorm.
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Four staffers saw an increase of more than three times their pay in previous quarters. One employee, a part-timer, was paid more than 12 times the amount he had consistently earned in the first nine months of the year, according to a CNN review of the records.
In all, the Missouri Republican paid more than $388,000 to 14 staff members. In the previous quarters, staff salaries ranged from a total of $180,000 to $192,000.
His former communications director, Steve Taylor, told CNN Kansas City, Missouri, affiliate KMBC the pay increases were a severance package.
Akin sought to unseat incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, last year.
But his campaign was thrown off course by controversial comments he made in a local television interview about rape.
That will teach you guys to not vote for me!!!
-T. Akin
.......typical liar Republican
More waste by a rich out of touch politican. How is this news? They have all been doin it from our fearless leader to the bottom of the barrel they all give way too many benefits and pay to their staff. They don't even work every day like the rest of us do. They get far too many days off and get paid far too much.
Apparently Allen West did the same thing. So much for the Tea Party's desire to cut spending. Finally, proof
that this 'organization' is all talk and very little substance.
I can hardly wait for the defenders of these obstructionists to make excuses. When they do, they too, will
have lost all credibility. Not that they had any in the first place, but this nails it down.
Isn't that something conservatives and not only enlarging government but raising payroll as well ,how patriotic hypocrites..Posters here saying democrates love big government when it was Bushs administration that almost doubled in size and added different branches employing even more to show how low percentage of unemployed were under his watch..Pretty clever until Pres.Obama cut hundreds of thousands of useless jobs Bushs administration had hid as usual..Just check posters and see how many government jobs have been eliminated under Pres.Obama and you'll see he's doing something Bush or his administration couldn't ,their jobs!!!
Who cares? Any amont is not enough working for Akin.
Where is our national health care that all these politicians have ? Don't see any cuts from them in their salary.
No surprise here. Republicans are very good at wasteful spending and poor management.
The party of fiscal responsibility...My backside!
Yep, Akin's quite the piece of work ...
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Todd Akin / Rick Perry 2016
The true voice of the republican party.
so....14 people were paid 27k a year to work.... thank you ex sen akin for your generosity. lol. not a big deal, we all need a decent job in this current situation.
they get to earn $12 an hour! awesome an actual living wage
What happen people gave todd akin a pay hike raise for retireing whats the problem.
Follow the money in the Tea potty Express too. That Koch brothers money. Grassroots alright.
He had enough money to pay people. Too bad his brain is a tiny little nut!
A very conservative move. It's just another in many of the hypocritical moves by republicans. Then said republicans point the finger at democrats as the spenders of money. The hoax of the century, perpetrated with the help of Faux News.