Current Events > Remember Californian Governor Gavin Newsom promising to take a pay cut?

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Well, he didn't.

But he did remember to cut state employee salaries by 10%.

https://deadline.com/2020/08/california-governor-gavin-newsom-failed-to-take-promised-pay-cut-1203018556/

But now the Sacramento Bee reported that Newsom who promised to cut his own pay as he ordered state workers checks to be cut by 10 percent has been drawing his full monthly salary of $17,479.

That, with Californians suffering after Newsom closed all but essential businesses in March, shuttering film and TV production in the state. Newsoms Plumpjack winery, however, was open until early July. PlumpJack, received a loan worth between $150,000 and $350,000 from the Paycheck Protection Program, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury Department, according to CBS News affiliate in Sacramento.

The Bee put in a pay data request to the State Controllers Office and received the information about the status of Newsoms pay, as well as that of other elected officials.
State Controller Betty Yee was the only one of the states eight elected constitutional officers such as the treasurer, secretary of state and attorney general to take a pay cut last month, according to the data.
After questions from The Bee on Wednesday, Governors Office spokesman Nathan Click said an oversight by the office resulted in Newsom keeping his full pay, which for July was $17,479.
Newsom sent a letter to the Controllers Office Wednesday asking Yee to reduce his pay retroactively to July 1.
While elected state officials are exempt from such pay cuts, Newsom promised he and the rest of the state governments workforce would voluntarily take pay cuts when he asked state workers to make that sacrifice in May.
Newsom on Wednesday urged the other elected state officers to finally make that sacrifice.
Treasurer Fiona Ma, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara all then requested reductions, according to Controllers Office spokeswoman Jennifer Hanson.

Secretary of State Alex Padilla was also expected to request a reduction. The Board of Equalization has not made a statement on the matter.
But Yee has, according to the Bee.
Millions of Californians have lost their jobs, and our state continues to reel from a pandemic-induced recession, Yee said in an emailed statement. State workers absorbed a pay cut to help balance the budget. It is important to me to make the same sacrifice as my team.

Makes pledge to cut pay, "forgets" for an entire 2 1/2 months until reminded by the press.

Didn't you just make a similar thread?

Ruvan22 posted...

Didn't you just make a similar thread?

Shhh this is all they have

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Ruvan22 posted...

Didn't you just make a similar thread?

I made a topic that covered the announcement two months back.

I only remembered this again, finding it on the "Read More News" section for that redwood forest story.

Lol at complaining about this when you support Donald Trump, quite possibly the biggest grifter out there.