Christie's Wife Earned $500K at Part Time Job

[babylonsister]

Nice work if you can get it.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/10/17/christies_wife_earned_500k_at_part_time_job.html

October 17, 2014

Christie's Wife Earned $500K at Part Time Job


According to new tax filings, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) wife, Mary Pat, who works part-time on Wall Street, earned $475,854 for her job as a director at Angelo, Gordon & Co. and $34,698 from Cantor Fitzgerald, the AP reports.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

1. I wonder why this doesn't surprise me,

oh wait!

[yeoman6987]

2. This needs to be spred all over

The republicans complained that Michelle worked in a hospital making 300K and GOP complained. Show this story to national media.

[linuxman]

4. Um...

In what way would that not validate the point they were trying to make?

[spanone]

13. they will yawn and express their admiration for the working mom

[Frustratedlady]

3. Did she negotiate for equal pay compared to the "guys" or...

did she settle for what she could get?



Actually, did she really show up for work or "sell" her name/position as wife of CC?

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. of course she does.

And deserves every penny.

[Fumesucker]

6. One of those "keep them under 30 hours so we dont' have to pay benefits" jobs, it sounds like

[UTUSN]

7. Poppy BUSH said, "My boys have a right to make a living!1"

When questioned about his various Shrubs/spawn's shady activities in the family tradition of feeding at the public trough:

Some of these events might have happened after Poppy's outburst, but the family propensities remain the same:

* Shrub starting failed businesses that later get sold for outsized profits, while the SEC investigates or stands by.

* Jeb Crow Shrub, with CubanExile/CIA partners running MediCARE-scam businesses, involving boarding private planes with suitcases full of cash.

* Neil Shrub wrecking the Savings & Loans and getting bailed out by the taxpayers.

* Jeb Crow Shrub and Neil Shrub running "education" program scams with the government institutionalizing (= cash) them into the schools.

* Most of the B.F.E.E., in one way or another, living off the public treasure.


And we don't even *know* the rest of the iceberg.

[cheyanne]

8. pay back for some of the many

favors that Christie has done for the firm's clients, no doubt.

Can they investigate whose firms are the clients?

But since they're still investigating bridgegate . . .

[Omaha Steve]

9. I wonder....

How does she feel about raising the minimum wage?

[mountain grammy]

10. They do take care of each other...

[madokie]

11. Crooked as a barrel of snakes

That phrase was coined for a reason and its assholes like Christie who that is meant for too

I have no use for a liar, a thief or a snake. Christie fills all three of those

[heaven05]

12. the rich and connected

can call their own shots......no shock, no surprise, just disgust at this class that american greed has created.

[delete_bush]

14. Yet another example of someone

working two part-time jobs and still getting less than 30 hours per week. All too common in today's economy.

[karynnj]

15. She was a high level Cantor Fitzgerald person long before he was governor

I wonder if the CF money is actually a pension or some kind of profit sharing from her time there still owed her after leaving to go to the other firm.

Her high pay - like that of many Wall Street top people - is unbelievably high. They are a large part of the 1% or near 1%.

As her high level positions predate his position as governor, I don't think this is someone using her to "repay" her husband. In fact, had a female governor (either party) had a high paid spouse would anyone question it? Wall Street is not regulated by the state of NJ - so there is less potential for complicity than when the spouse is a lawyer in the state where the other spouse is governor.

[Fla Dem]

18. Totally think Christie is a brute and corrupt, but thanks for the reasoned remarks about his wife.

You are absolutely correct in that husbands of politicians are rarely spotlighted . But when thye are, it always seems to be Democratic ones. i.e.; Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi and Geraldine Ferraro.

[El Shaman]

16. No wonder the lil Mrs.

is always smiling from ear to ear- like a shit-eating possum !!!

[lonestarnot]

17. "earned." are you fucking kidding me.

[packman]

19. At 30 hrs/wk

that makes it 1,500 hrs. of "work" (giving her two weeks off for rest) and at 500k/year that comes out to $333.33 per hour. Nice, I'm sure she earned every penny. Then , again, as pointed out in another post, she probably didn't qualify for "benefits". You know, since she is just "part-time". Fuckin' unbelievable.

[3catwoman3]

26. Even at 40 hrs a week...

...had she "worked" full time, that would be $245/hr. As said upthread, nice work if you can get it.

[DeSwiss]

20. ''You kids will have to get you own snack this afternoon.....

...Mom's got a part-time job!''

[Helen Borg]

21. Bribe...

[Ilsa]

22. Directors. Don't they just pass around insider information

to other directors and CEOs? Why the hell are they paid so much when they have no liability that they are actually prosecuted on.

[malaise]

23. I'm shocked I tell you

Shocked...NOT

[Cha]

24. Raking in the bucks those two... How are the New Jersey People doing?

[freshwest]

25. Well, she enjoys sneering at the 'little people' as she did here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023969381

Here she is at the convention:



Many making 'money for nothing' smile.

[johnnyreb]

27. kick