The St. Louis Post Dispatch has learned that nepotism and patronage play a role in St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley's hiring decisions. Here's what the Post Dispatch writes in During a hiring freeze, a Temporiti lands a county job:
CLAYTON • In January, with St. Louis County in the third year of a hiring and pay freeze, Mike Temporiti landed a $70,000 county job.
Temporiti, 27, is now the county's abatement compliance officer. It's a brand new job, created just for him in the Revenue Department. His salary is the ninth highest of the 237 employees in the department.
The job was never posted, and Temporiti did not have to interview for it.
He is a lawyer and the son of John Temporiti, who is County Executive Charlie A. Dooley's longtime campaign treasurer and manager and former chief of staff. County officials insist that the connection between Dooley, a Democrat, and the elder Temporiti, a longtime Democratic powerbroker, played no role in the hiring.
Unreal.
If you live in the county and find yourself pining for the leadership of St. Louis city's Mayor Francis Slay, have no fear. It is only a matter of time before county government is just as bankrupt as the city and you're forced to layoff firefighters or something.
The following are comments from readers for this posting.
CLAYTON • In January, with St. Louis County in the third year of a hiring and pay freeze, Mike Temporiti landed a $70,000 county job.
Temporiti, 27, is now the county's abatement compliance officer. It's a brand new job, created just for him in the Revenue Department. His salary is the ninth highest of the 237 employees in the department.
The job was never posted, and Temporiti did not have to interview for it.
He is a lawyer and the son of John Temporiti, who is County Executive Charlie A. Dooley's longtime campaign treasurer and manager and former chief of staff. County officials insist that the connection between Dooley, a Democrat, and the elder Temporiti, a longtime Democratic powerbroker, played no role in the hiring.
Unreal.
If you live in the county and find yourself pining for the leadership of St. Louis city's Mayor Francis Slay, have no fear. It is only a matter of time before county government is just as bankrupt as the city and you're forced to layoff firefighters or something.
The following are comments from readers for this posting.
Don't focus on who got the job. Focus on the fact that this phony baloney job exists in the first place and that someone was going to make $70,000 a year pushing more paper anyway.
If you keep voting the same people in don't be surprised at things like this. Why does Dooley have to follow the no hire policy? The taxpayers keep voting him in.
Posted by: Linda Clay | 03/19/2011 at 08:26 AM
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