{"id":297634,"date":"2010-02-09T07:12:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T12:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.71310"},"modified":"2010-02-09T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T22:01:15","slug":"more-than-1000-state-employees-are-paid-more-than-gov-rell-175-retired-state-employees-have-100k-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/297634","title":{"rendered":"More Than 1,000 State Employees Are Paid More Than Gov. Rell; 175 Retired State Employees Have 100K Pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"

After pouring through public records, the Yankee Institute For Public Policy reports that 1,138 state employees earn more than the governor’s annual salary of $150,000.<\/p>\n

In addition, 175 retired state employees currently receive more than $100,000 per year in pensions.<\/p>\n

The information is detailed at www.CTSunlight.org<\/a>, which is a new web site of public information that was created by Hartford-based Yankee, a right-leaning institute with offices on the campus of Trinity College.<\/p>\n

Fergus Cullen, a 1994 Yale graduate and longtime Connecticut resident who later became the state Republican chairman in New Hampshire at the age of 34, arrived at the institute last year with plans for reenergizing the organization. Part of that includes close scrutiny of the $18.6 billion state budget.<\/p>\n

Among the findings:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The state spent more than $2,500 at multiple Dunkin Donuts locations<\/p>\n

\u2022 Referees and umpires were paid more than $250,000 from the Department of Education.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Guida Dairy received $2.8 million for providing milk at the state’s prisons.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Crystal Rock was paid more than $3,000 for providing bottled water to the governor’s office<\/p>\n

\u2022 Private law firms received more than $5 million for attorneys’ fees from the attorney general’s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After pouring through public records, the Yankee Institute For Public Policy reports that 1,138 state employees earn more than the governor’s annual salary of $150,000. In addition, 175 retired state employees currently receive more than $100,000 per year in pensions. The information is detailed at www.CTSunlight.org, which is a new web site of public information that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}