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Village Clerk retires early after Womens March post
Bob Barra wrote that pro-choice marchers probably should have been aborted
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"Village Clerk Bob Barra retired a day early on Thursday, after a public outcry in reaction to his Facebook post that the pro-choice marchers at Saturdays Womens March on Washington 'probably should have been aborted.'"
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"'He was asked to leave the building,' Deputy Village Clerk Bob Fumagalli said, declining to comment about the status of any retirement benefits Barra may be entitled to. His salary was $134,724 in 2016, and he has worked for the village since 2011. He was also paid $24,225 by Nassau County as a part-time golf course attendant, according to Newsday."
And it gets worse...
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/gop-linked-village-clerk-paid-33-5g-as-nassau-golf-attendant-1.7045438
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)lapucelle
(18,252 posts)Barra feathered his nest with the cushy (for him) side job that could have supported a working family.
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)both of them pay really well
lapucelle
(18,252 posts)We've had plenty of political payola scandals and convictions this year.
tparrett62
(268 posts)It's a pretty red area in a very blue state. Hard to fathom sometimes. But yeah, lots of corruption- that Mangano thing was a doozie.
lapucelle
(18,252 posts)in case our kids ever wanted summer jobs at the beaches or pools.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)braddy
(3,585 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)... is Valley Stream.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Bet this hard-core Repub asshole has a stock rant about "lazy welfare cheats" and "government employee parasites."
Hope he takes a low-line-drive Slazenger on the conk.
lapucelle
(18,252 posts)because he used to play ice hockey. This slug works at night in the summer running the Zamboni machine at the ice rink at the golf course. Alrighty then!
Barra's a piker, though. One GOP insider's nephew made $80,000 working his part time parks department job.
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/nassau-paid-part-time-seasonal-workers-more-than-26-5m-amid-wage-freeze-1.8859820