Homeless agency fires Illinois First Lady

[Critters2]

Source: Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — The wife of impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was fired from her $100,000-a-year job as a Chicago homeless agency's chief fundraiser.

The Chicago Christian Industrial League's board exercised a termination clause of Patti Blagojevich's contract on Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times reported on their Web sites Wednesday.

Interim Executive Director Mary Shaver told the papers she could not discuss personnel issues. She did not return telephone messages from The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Patti Blagojevich, 43, was "saddened" by the board's decision, said Lucio Guerrero, a spokesman for Gov. Rod Blagojevich.



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[davidinalameda]

1. oops

what the saying-you lie down with dogs, you get fleas

sounds like Patti's fleas are starting to bite her in the ass

[Jambalaya]

36. Flea Bite Us

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This story has the exact timeline of the thread story here. Any connection,I wonder?

[EmeraldCityGrl]

2. she may want to stay on good terms with them...

homelessness may be in their near future.

[dysfunctional press]

19. i think blago himself will have public housing for the next 10-20 years...

3 hots and a cot.

[EFerrari]

3. How could anyone accept that salary from a HOMELESS RELIEF AGENCY

in the first place? Whoever budgeted that salary should be fired, too.

[liberalhistorian]

4. Amen, that was my first

thought, too!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. I agree.

100K is a lot of money to pull out of the core mission.

[EFerrari]

6. Why wasn't this woman donating her time and taking a tax deduction?

God help me. That's just obscene. I wonder how many people could be housed for $100,000.00 a year? Vampires.

[Lasher]

10. Nonprofits are not what they seem.

Chicago Christian Industrial League donors might very well have had good success in winning contracts with the State of Illinois. I wouldn't be surprised if she did very little, if anything, for her $100K salary. Properly laundered bribes are perfectly legal.

This is well below the average nonprofit CEO salary.

[sam sarrha]

11. he should have been Impeached for letting her steal that money from the poor.!!

[Lasher]

12. It's bribe laundering and perfectly legal.

I once worked for a major corporation that hired the governor's daughter. It was a fairly lucrative position for a starting employee. I know for a fact that we could expect favorable treatment when dealing with the governor's office. But hey, a woman's got a right to earn a living even if she's the governor's daughter, right?

That governor later did jail time for his corruption. The daughter in question was led out of our office building in handcuffs one day, for selling cocaine in the company parking lot. Her sister is currently the only Republican member of my state's congressional delegation.

But I digress. Nonprofits in the US are a very tangled web.

[EFerrari]

26. You have a point there, Lasher. n/t

[Lasher]

42. Why thank you, Pat.

:)

[Jambalaya]

38. "Casino Cleaners"

Much more efficient laundry at the Casinos. Just hand your favorite politico a bunch of chips,and rub a dub dub.

[Kali]

24. you got that right

non-profit status doesn't have anything to do with staff making out well

[RantinRavin]

13. Tax deduction for what ?

The IRS does not allow you to take a deduction for your time spent volunteering.

[EFerrari]

17. That's right. Only expenses and mileage. Well, don't let me do your taxes.

[dixiegrrrrl]

40. Did you do Geither's taxes?

Just wondering.....:7

[tishaLA]

7. it's an incredible figure

if there was any question about whether this couple had any scruples whatsoever, the matter seems to be settled.

[iconicgnom]

8. How could anyone be married to Blagojevich?

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments!
Don't fret. Now that she's gone, they'll appoint someone else to replace, at $100,000 a year. Don't for a second underestimate the system's ability to adapt!

[Night_Nurse]

9. hair fetish? nt

[dysfunctional press]

18. easy- she's the daughter of a chicago alderman.

it was a match made in purgatory.

[NashVegas]

22. Putting Aside, For the Moment, Of WHO It Is

How much do you think their chief fundraiser should be making, say, per every $50k raised.

[EFerrari]

25. Putting all that aside, two of my friends hold / held the same job here

and they make about as much as a public school teacher does. In other words, they're in it for the love and not the money. So, what is that? About half of what this woman was pulling down? And this is San Francisco which may have a slightly higher COL than Chicago.

[NashVegas]

27. Doesn't Answer the Q

And anyway, according to stats I've seen, the average SF public school teacher brings down $46 per hour. That's a lotta love.

[EFerrari]

28. So, given the framing of your question, you believe these people should be

working on commission?

And it looks like high school teachers here make about $60k depending. That's not really enough to do more than pay rent and kept your kids in shoes.

http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layoutscripts/swzl_salaryresults.asp?hdSearchByOption=0&hdSearchByOption=0&hdKeyword=Teacher%20High%20School&hdJobCategory=ED01&hdZipCode=94104&hdStateMetro=&hdGeoLocation=San%20Francisco,%20CA%2094104&hdJobCode=ED03000011&hdJobTitle=Teacher%20High%20School&hdCurrentTab=&hdNarrowDesc=Education

[NashVegas]

30. I Think People Should Be Paid Fairly, Regardless of Profit v Non-Profit

For a city the size of Chicago, with as much money in it as Chicago, a fundraiser should have a salary that reflects their ability to pull in contributions and enables reverberation.

Now, if Mrs. Whatserface is sitting around on her ass, by all means toss her.

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And if you click on 'benefits' ...?

[EFerrari]

31. What do you want to bet that she "lent" her name and image

a lot more than she did anything else? I think Lasher called it; this is a very legally laundered bribe.

And I don't know about high school teachers benefits here. I hope they're good because I'm applying for one of those jobs next week and it'll be the first time in 15 years I've had any. lol :)

[NashVegas]

35. They're All Laundered Bribes

At that level. Non-profits are where one group of people go to climb the social + business ladder, another to maintain contacts, and yet another goes to get their soul back.

If she did actual fund-raising for them, I expect she attended a number of social events, hosted a number of social events. Talked some people into parting with checks from $5k-$50k, and steered the bigger ones towards city contracts.


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According to your link, $88k w/benefits. Not so bad, eh?

[EFerrari]

37. I wonder what that really means, though. And I also wonder

how long they will keep that value however it has been derived? I don't know any teachers that sport new cars or big houses or who don't sweat their kids' college tuition or even some of their family medical bills.

[Jambalaya]

39. Pay to Play

And the donors get write offs AND write ups in the Society page.

[superconnected]

33. That's what I was thinking!

[marshall]

14. Who knew homeless agencies paid that well?

I thought they were places for rich white women to put in a few hours a week in between tea parties and debutante balls.

[Freddie Stubbs]

23. Many non-profits pay their workers very generously

[totodeinhere]

29. I think it's an outrage.

Think of how many homeless people could be put in apartments with that $100,000. I'm glad she got fired and I hope they don't replace her.

[Freddie Stubbs]

32. Ask you local United Way how much their CEO get paid

You may be surprised.

[totodeinhere]

41. Yes, I remember a big scandal involving the United Way a few years ago too. n/t

[AngryAmish]

15. In Chicago, you have to hire politicians kin to keep your contracts

I'm not saying anything but U of Chicago Hospital has been known to hire a politician's spouse of two in order to keep their contracts.

This is the way it is done in Chicago (and all of Illinois). Fitz is trying to drain this swamp.

[dysfunctional press]

20. as the swamp starts to drain, they'll likely find that all roads lead to/thru daley

he seems to be a little paler and soft-spoken since the blago thing first broke...i wonder why? :shrug:

[customerserviceguy]

16. Sure hope there weren't any kids in the room when she got the news!

Paint probably started peeling on the walls!

[Dennis Donovan]

21. Do ALL directors of such agencies get $100,000 a year jobs?

:shrug:

Something stinky about this.x(

[superconnected]

34. Usually more. Yes, it's a scam.