Son of player in Albany coup gets $120G state job

[Libertas1776]

Source: Newsday

ALBANY - The son of a key player in the leadership coup that deadlocked the State Senate for 4½ weeks has been given a $120,000-a-year job in the chamber.

Pedro Gautier Espada, whose father, Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. (D-Bronx), was one of the coup's leaders, began working recently in the new position of deputy director of intergovernmental affairs for the Senate's Democratic majority. The move comes after the elder Espada ended the gridlock by returning to the Democratic fold on July 9 and was named majority leader.

Sen. Espada denied his son influenced his desertion of the Republicans and collapse of the leadership coup begun on June 8. "This is not the result of a quid pro quo or a contingency to my ending the Senate stalemate," he said. "If my son did not qualify for this position, he would not have gotten the job." Espada isn't the only senator's kid employed by the Senate. Owen H. Johnson Jr., son of Sen. Owen Johnson (R-West Babylon), is a $49,998-a-year research assistant. Carlos Gonzalez, son of former Sen. Efran Gonzalez, is paid $89,986 to be media services director.

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/son-of-player-in-albany-coup-gets-120g-state-job-1.1363422

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Well if that doesn't just scream nepotism. Granted, the article lists another example from the Republican side, but this is all the more worse coming from that sniveling worm Espada, the leader of that rotten coup, in which nothing was gained except a giant backlog of desperately needed relief for the state, oh and I guess a job for the sniveling worm's son. Politics at its best...nothing but quid pro quo.

[amerikat]

1. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you that this goes on in NY

Do you know if he has any sisters I can date?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Who the hell does he think he is?

Some politician from New Jersey???

[DRoseDARs]

3. Yay, the circus is back in town! n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Nepotism

[bobshin]

5. $120,000 for anyone in government besides the President

should be outlawed until there is campaign finance reform. Unfortunately the ones who make the laws will never vote for such a thing.

Time for publicly petitioned proposition!