Chip Rogers’ price a cool $150,000
From Kristina Torres of the AJC:
Former state Sen. Chip Rogers will start his new job Tuesday earning a lofty $150,000 – making him the seventh executive at Georgia Public Broadcasting earning six figures annually, despite a rather pedestrian title: “Executive producer, community jobs program.”
The position, like others at GPB, is paid solely through state taxpayers’ money. But it is more than Gov. Nathan Deal and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle each make in their public jobs.
And it is more than what some of Rogers’ new colleagues made in the last fiscal year, including GBP’s vice president for radio and its chief information officer.
Rogers, of course, is the former Senate majority leader whose crank theories — land-use planning is a UN conspiracy to take over the country; Georgians must be legally protected from microchips being implanted in their brains — made him an embarrassment. His colorful business dealings — claiming that he could not be held liable for a major loan because it was the bank’s fault for being stupid enough to lend him the money — only added to his “charm”.
In effect, the governor is paying Rogers to go away to a place where he can do less harm, and he is using $150,000 in taxpayer money to do so.
Failing upward is more lucrative than most of us imagined.
– Jay Bookman
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Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:30 pm
Got to score more than 24 points to win in the NFL. And need to sore in the seond half.
Orange13
January 20th, 2013
7:30 pm
“Well the Falcons defense stunk up the Georgia dome”
Matt Ryan’s back to back turnovers is what killed the Falcons.
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:31 pm
OSCAR
A chicken in every pot and pot in every chicken?
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
7:32 pm
Oscar
I’ve had the flu twice in my almost 40 years of living. I have not gotten a single shot. There are many strains of the flu virus, and there has never been one shot to protect against them all at one time.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
7:32 pm
Two close games.
The Saints won the Super Bowl.
Just sayin.
Bill Orvis White
January 20th, 2013
7:39 pm
I just read up on this and from what I can tell, the honorable Georgia State Sen. Chip Rogers is giving what PBS needs the most: true diversity. Why is that it’s OK to put shows on that promote the gay agenda, but it’s not OK to put a true conservative on its board? What am I missing here? The honorable Mr. Rogers worked hard for the state and did a job that he didn’t really have to do as a low-paid public servant looking out for the common man. Then, He rightfully earned his way into a good paying TV job. By the way, the honorable Mr. Rogers has a background in TV which makes Him even more qualified to take on the job. Whenever I’m in town, I’m going to try to look up Chip Rogers on the television. Amen, Bill
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:44 pm
Josef – There is good news just around the corner. And a light at the end of the tunnel.
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:45 pm
Hey, BIll Orvis! Long time, no see. Hope all is well with you and Roosevelt down on the Leaf.
josef
January 20th, 2013
7:46 pm
OSCAR
And the only thing we have to fear is fear itself if we ask not what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country…oh, BTW, DID you have sex with THAT woman?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:48 pm
No, I did not have sex with THAT woman.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 20th, 2013
7:48 pm
Well I heard Mr. Rogers is bringing back a much more conservative Mr. Drummond. He’ll adopt Honey BooBoo this time.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
7:49 pm
Well, I may have, it depends on what your definition of is is.
Recon 0311 2533
January 20th, 2013
7:50 pm
http://player.vimeo.com/video/38356372?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0
Recon 0311 2533
January 20th, 2013
7:52 pm
My last is for Scout and others who know the truth.
stands for decibels
January 20th, 2013
8:00 pm
This country has a community organizer for president
Thanks for the reminder.
Since I never got around to saying it–yes, Hank Johnson was right.
josef
January 20th, 2013
8:00 pm
OSCAR
It is what it is.
josef
January 20th, 2013
8:02 pm
And sometimes they don’t just fade away.
indigo
January 20th, 2013
8:05 pm
joseph
Just as you want the very best jurists for the supreme court so you want the very best people for the House and Senate.
Unless, you’re like President Andrew Jackson who thought any average citizen was good enough for any public office.
indigo
January 20th, 2013
8:10 pm
TBS
Suppose you’re in a large shopping center.
Further suppose you must pick out 30 adults for high public office.
If you simply picked 30 people at random, without even talking to them, I hope you’re not thinking they would necessarly make good public servants.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
8:23 pm
Based on results so far, community organizer has proved to be an excellent background for presidents.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 20th, 2013
8:36 pm
Obama has set a target of $4 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years — a number that even many deficit hawk economists view as more than sufficient to stabilize the economy. Budget and spending deals he made in his first term are worth $2.5 trillion. So he’s already not too far from that target, and the GOP may be unable to stop him from getting the rest of the way there….Total U.S. debt is about $16.4 trillion — a scary, oft-cited number that’s about equal to the country’s total annual economic output. But that includes some $5 trillion that the government owes itself, primarily to the Social Security Trust Fund. The less-frightening amount that economists care about is what Uncle Sam owes the public, and that’s a little over $11 trillion, or about three-quarters of the GDP. Such a debt level is historically high, but nowhere near a record. And it looks even better next to the significant assets the government holds….Deficit concerns are usually raised as a proxy for unpopular ideological preferences, Galbraith notes. Instead of demanding cuts to Medicare because it constitutes what Ronald Reagan once called “socialized medicine,” conservatives now insist that such programs must be cut to avoid the supposedly greater pain caused by fiscal trauma.
Recon 0311 2533
January 20th, 2013
8:42 pm
Keep up the good flight sure gets sucked into bull shyte.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 20th, 2013
8:50 pm
Oh look Recon is pouting again.
appleseed
January 20th, 2013
8:54 pm
Old Faithful erupting again.I suppose birds of a feather support other same birds.
getalife
January 20th, 2013
8:59 pm
Too many facts in that one Keep.
Facts scare the cons.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 20th, 2013
9:02 pm
getalife, they sure don’t deal well with reality. It’s been shown time and time again. But we’ll get some more unskewed pouting.
Serious Robuck
January 20th, 2013
9:02 pm
Dear All,
Atlanta is Losersville. In every conceptual way, this place is now the CAN’T DO city. Our attitude: Elect Republicans. Give them a super majority. Enable their corruption. Buy into their ideas that we just have to cut spending and cut government jobs and reduce regulations and sell our souls to any industry who wants to come and play for a few years (e.g. Kia, Caterpillar) and play defense and pray that our schools will get better, that somehow traffic will get better, and perhaps we’ll win the lottery. We can never ever plan for or invest in the future again.
Losersville.
Georgia is my native state and my home. It is, however, Losersville. Period.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:04 pm
“That they apparently aren’t makes you wonder if the really good people are no longer in our political arena.”
-Indigo
Indigo must be 18 years old
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:05 pm
“I’ve had the flu twice in my almost 40 years of living. I have not gotten a single shot. There are many strains of the flu virus, and there has never been one shot to protect against them all at one time.”
You are one healthy resistant hombre
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:09 pm
Robuck
Love you pal and agree, but for different reasons
getalife
January 20th, 2013
9:10 pm
It is going to be a long four years of pouting
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:10 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 20th, 2013
9:02 pm
getalife, they sure don’t deal well with reality. It’s been shown time and time again. But we’ll get some more unskewed pouting.
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That economy you live in and the air you breathe, not real
Unfortunately
Sorry life is complex
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:11 pm
Get
I’m not pouting
Just entertained
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:12 pm
I wonder why jay never goes old school and posts some “old and in the way”
Would be apropos too
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:13 pm
I wonder how many posts I can stick in a row
TBS
January 20th, 2013
9:13 pm
Indigo
I’m just saying what it is.
Did not imply it was the optimal scenario
It is reality whether you like it or not
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:14 pm
Getting us to page 7 could take a while
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:15 pm
Optimal scenarios never occur
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:15 pm
page 7
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:16 pm
page 6.8
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:16 pm
Recon 8:42
If that’s what you eat sleep and breathe, hey man that’s just normal
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:16 pm
page 6.81
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:17 pm
Oscar
Nice try
What’s happenin?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:17 pm
page 8.2
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:18 pm
Oscar
Are you having difficulty counting?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:19 pm
drew barrymore and oprah on tv. i watched the game this afternoon. paybacks are hell.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:19 pm
If bro does a face smack post that may zip us right to 7
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:20 pm
page 6.3
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:21 pm
Drew Barrymore is talking to Oprah?
Hell. I had no idea doping was prevalent in the acting biz. Jk
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:21 pm
focus
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:21 pm
I thought they had stunt doubles….
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:22 pm
“focus”
On what?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:22 pm
really bad hair
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:23 pm
my problem with numers is lack of focus
Catfish John
January 20th, 2013
9:25 pm
Damn Nate silver
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/what-is-driving-growth-in-government-spending/
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:26 pm
Oscar
Which elixir have you been imbibing in?
(apologies for ending the sentence with a preposition, I’m too lazy right now)
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:35 pm
page 6.4
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:37 pm
You know
A few all male colleges are probably not a bad idea
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21569724-only-few-holdouts-survive-old-all-male-ways-die-hard
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:37 pm
Coca-Cola. That’s it for me these days.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:38 pm
Oscar
Step it up
7is a long way away at this point
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:38 pm
Oscar
All kinds of bad things in coke
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:40 pm
Oscar
It’s fair to say atl would be a backwater today absent coca-cola
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:40 pm
jm – the college I attented was 25 per cent co-ed. Would have preferred more women.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:42 pm
Oscar
Yes
But most dudes act like steak heads around women
I’m not blameless either
Nash equilibrium for guys might be at the bottom of the barrel
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:43 pm
I went to the Coca-Cola school. Coke makes a good mixer.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:46 pm
Oscar
Coca cola school?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:47 pm
coke helped, but Atlanta grew as a rail road, ware house and transportation center.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:49 pm
Oscar
Yes
But coke put Atlanta on the map
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:50 pm
i dated a lot of high school girls, nursing students and some from agnes scott.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:51 pm
page 6.5
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:52 pm
Emory
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:53 pm
Oscar
What did you major in at Emory?
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:54 pm
we only drank cokes. no other soft drink could be bought on campus
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:55 pm
psychology
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:56 pm
then i went to law school
Jm
January 20th, 2013
9:56 pm
What’s my personality type?
Myers Briggs
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:56 pm
page 6.6
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:58 pm
m-b had not been invented when i was in college.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
9:59 pm
we talked about defense mechanisms a lot.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:01 pm
i think ou do a lt og projection.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:01 pm
Fair enough
Are u an ot tourney now or do something else?
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:01 pm
Attorney
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:03 pm
What’s an it og projectin?
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
10:03 pm
jm
My mom was a hospital lab tech, and several of my aunts were/are nurses. Most of my good health came from listening to them, but i
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:03 pm
drew was smoking pot at club 21 at age 11
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
10:05 pm
I also try to take good care of myself. Fat fingered the cell phone.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:06 pm
retired now. worked for a private company for 40 years as an attorney
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:07 pm
10:43 example of lack of focus
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:08 pm
10:03
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:10 pm
“retired now”
Good profession
Bro
Cell phones are a pain
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:11 pm
Bro
I figured you live in a cabin in the woods
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:12 pm
Who is drew?
Oscar is multi blogging methinks.
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
10:13 pm
Yes they are. Y’all have fun. My time is up for the evening.
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:14 pm
6.9?
Brosephus™
January 20th, 2013
10:15 pm
jm
Not living like that yet, but that would be nice.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:15 pm
bro is more of a manic
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:16 pm
Bro’s sentiment, while fundamentally misplaced, is hard to dispute
I’m tired too
Oscar, over and out
Multitasking is our enemy
getalife
January 20th, 2013
10:16 pm
“I figured you live in a cabin in the woods”
I figured you are dead wrong as usual.
Oscar
January 20th, 2013
10:17 pm
oprah is finally over. i know more about drew barrymore than i ever wanted to
Jm
January 20th, 2013
10:17 pm
Oscar is dropping psych
Uh oh
Ok, zzzz