Mary Easley got a $79,700 raise this week.
Easley, wife of Gov. Mike Easley, is an executive in residence and senior lecturer in the provost's office at N.C. State University. Her job duties have expanded and she will get more money for it.
Effective July 1, her salary went from $90,000 to $170,000, according to personnel records from N.C. State.
Mary Easley, 58, has been in the news this week because of the expense of trips she took to France in May 2007 and Russia and Estonia this May.
News of the raise appeared in a story in the Carolina Journal on Wednesday.
Mary Easley's job entails development and direction of the Millennium Seminars, the university's principal speakers program. She runs a spring semester course called Public Law for Public Administrators. She is a faculty member in the Administrative Officers Management Program teaching legal aspects of police supervision.
Her new responsibilities include directing the development of the Public Safety Leadership Initiative, expanding the existing program to include first responders and security professionals, co-directing
pre-law services at N.C. State, and acting as the University’s liaison for partnerships with the legal profession and area law schools, including the development of dual-degree programs.
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Keep it up, fellow Democrats, and see where we wind up
Gee, "merit," I think you might want to reconsider your own little mini-rant there. I don't think the matter of taxpayer waste is "ridiculous," nor are objections about special treatment given to politicians' friends or loved ones out of line.
As a Democrat, I'm disgusted by the example Mike Easley has set for arrogance and abuse of office. He has treated state employees with contempt while setting a terrible example, as the #1 state employee, for how to run state government.
He botched the state's effort at mental health reform, was "creative" in his explanations of the position taken by his office on the measures in question, fired a longtime, effective, hardworking employee for sheer spite, and has had his staff delete inconvenient emails on that and any other matters he didn't want the press to see.
As one who does not relish the prospect of a GOP takeover, I can't say I have much enthusiasm for Beverly "more of the same" Perdue -- especially given the good old boy culture that put her where she is. The gal has been primed and polished by Marc Basnight, David Hoyle and Tony Rand, who recently thumbed his nose at all of us by closing the door to an important budget meeting. Perdue's participation in the "business as usual" mode their leadership stands for is a big red flag.
There is good reason Richard Moore can't bring himself to endorse her, which is less about his loss in the primary than it is what we stand to lose if we keep electing the kind of politician whose indulgence in or toleration for unethical practices is an open secret.