Learning that Sneaky Pete gave his insider cronies a 16% raise is soooo not shocking.
…So it’s disheartening – make that infuriating – to learn that the bosses Delawareans have hired for our state government, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the General Assembly, are spreading scarce state dollars around among members of their political staffs, while keeping a tight rein on the salaries of those who keep us safe, nurse our sick, pave our roads, and do the other jobs that help make Delaware special.
To give favored legislative staffers pay hikes of up to 16 percent while denying rank-and-file state employees even the 1 percent raise proposed by Gov. Jack Markell is a grotesque abuse of power. Perhaps just as bad, we’re learning that all this happened months ago, engineered behind the scenes by lawmakers who doubtless took care to hide it because they knew voters would find it outrageous.