Governor Robert Bentley set against state legislature after giving his advisers sizeable raises – some of which topped $73000 in increased annual payAlabama’s governor outraged his critics and disconcerted his allies recently by handing out gigantic pay raises to his advisers,while the state tumbles into financial crisis. The maneuvers set the governor, Robert Bentley, and against the state legislature just as it created the state’s general fund budget for 2017. So legislators took the opportunity to carve money equaling the pay raises – some of which topped $73000 in increased annual pay – out of the governor’s own budget and place it toward Medicaid.
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Source: theguardian.com