Brenda Snipes says she won't resign as Broward County election supervisor after all

[babylonsister]

Brenda Snipes says she won’t resign as Broward County election supervisor after all
The move pits Snipes against Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who had already chosen her replacement.
By Jane [e-mail] Updated Dec 3, 2018, 2:04pm EST


Brenda Snipes — the controversial Broward County, Florida, elections supervisor who oversaw recent recounts for governor and Senate — resigned from her position on November 19, saying that she was “ready to pass the torch” and would leave her job on January 4, 2019.

But on December 1, Snipes rescinded her resignation after Republican Gov. Rick Scott suspended her without pay and appointed a replacement. In a statement, Snipes’s attorney said: “We believe these actions are malicious, we believe that the allegations that are set forth in the governor’s executive order are done for the purposes of embarrassing Dr. Snipes — embarrassing her and tarnishing her record — and we will be fighting this.”

It’s not clear what this will mean for Snipes, or for Broward County, but it appears that legal actions may be looming.

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https://www.vox.com/2018/11/19/18102781/brenda-snipes-broward-county-resignation-2018-elections

[Basement Beat]

1. Scott suspended her without pay...

I certainly can understand her making legal actions.

[MichMan]

5. She gets a pension of $130K per year

I think she will survive on that

[Basement Beat]

6. In that case...

Welp.

[quaker bill]

7. As an FRS member myself

I deeply doubt the $130K. That would require 30 years of service with a highest 5 of $271K. The Governor only makes $165K, so unless Ms. Snipes was the President of a major state university or a Florida / FSU football coach, she isn't getting anything like that.

[MichMan]

8. Broward elections supervisor Brenda Snipes will walk away with almost $130,000 a year in pensions

Almost $11,000 a month. That’s what Brenda Snipes will be receiving in pension benefits when she resigns in January as the Broward County Supervisor of Elections.

The state pensions include $58,560 a year she’s already receiving from her earlier career as an educator, and she’ll be adding almost $71,000 a year for her time in elected office.


https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/fl-ne-broward-elections-supervisor-brenda-snipes-pension-20181126-story.html

[quaker bill]

9. Still seems a bit high

but 50 years of creditable service in two different jobs was possible under the rules in effect prior to 2011, when she took the second job as supervisor of elections. Under current FRS rules I could not earn a second pension, no matter what I did. Under the current rules you can only use up to 30 years of service for one pension (you can work more but only 30 years count). This is true for me only because I was hired before 2011. Once I retire, after a year off, I could take another state job, but I can get no credit for a second pension under it.

Of course currently for new hires the option of a defined benefit pension is no longer available. You can only get an "investment plan" - like a 401K but under a different rule number.

This is a rightwing hobby horse talking point the Orlando Sentinel loves to go off on and has done so on occasion since the Reagan Revolution. There were a very few individuals under the old rules of the FRS system who managed to reap a bonanza, legally under the rules and contracts in place when they were hired. The vast bulk of folks (90% +) got a minor addition to their Social Security check for 30 years of service. The Sentinel's incessant campaign on this issue got the pension system "reformed" in a way that for the most part makes retired teachers, administrative assistants, and clerks at the Driver's license office significantly poorer when they finally retire.

[obamanut2012]

10. No, he took that away by suspending her

Except, she actually resigned already, effective January 1.

And, she deserves her pension. WE have deferred compensation pensions here, and if we earn them all those years, we deserve them.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. 130k per year isn't much, if you're paying for a lawyer. nt

[WillowTree]

2. If he accepted her resignation, she'll be hard pressed to force him to accept the recision.

I don't even know if she can force him to pay her through 1-4.

[obamanut2012]

11. He illegally suspended her after her resignation

Making her ineligible for her EARNED and LEGAL pension.

[WillowTree]

14. I'm not so sure that the suspension was illegal. I guess time will tell.

[BigmanPigman]

3. What is up with Broward County?

This is the second post about the politics in that area right now. The other post was regarding a Sheriff Dept SWAT guy wearing a Q Anon patch to meet Pence. It doesn't seem like a good advertisement for your area when this stuff makes national news.

[peekaloo]

15. Don't forget the mail bomber!

Broward is a weirdo magnet.

[BigmanPigman]

16. You're right! I did forget that.

Is there something in the water there? This sort of attention can't be good advertising for their area. They'd better get their act together.

[MichMan]

4. She likely caused Bill Nelson to lose the Senate race to Rick Scott.....

….by allowing that poorly designed ballot to be used.


She should just retire and take her $130K per year pension

[obamanut2012]

12. Except she won't get the pension because of what he did

Which is why she is going after him.