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A UA lesson in how not to win enough friends at the Statehouse
Published on Friday, Apr 17, 2009
The background fits, to a point. Borgemenke was chief of staff to former Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted. He was a top adviser to former Gov. Bob Taft and, most recently, chief strategist for the Ohio Republican Party. When working the Republican side of the aisle, he will travel familiar territory.
At the same time, it hardly takes a degree from the Ray. C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics to realize that such territory is shrinking. Democrats control city hall in Akron, Summit County government, the Ohio House, the governor's office and all other statewide executive offices save the position of auditor. Democrats control the White House and Congress. That leaves a pipeline to Ohio Senate President Bill Harris and U.S. Rep. John Boehner, the House minority leader, and U.S. Sen. George Voinovich (who is not running for re-election next year).
Ohio already has many university officials with six-figure salaries, not to mention the nation's highest paid university president, Gordon Gee at Ohio State, at more than $800,000 a year. A parents advocacy group recently counted more than 4,500 employees at state universities in Ohio paid $100,000 or more.
With a recent performance boost of $85,000, UA President Luis Proenza's total compensation now stands at $535,000. Besides a house and a car, he also has the services of a Deerfield, Ill., consulting firm to improve his executive and leadership skills, and those of other top managers. The cost of the annual consulting contract is $25,000.
The trouble is, such expenditures don't sit well with the public or, as Borgemenke knows, many Republican lawmakers looking to whack state support for public universities, just recovering from years of chronic underfunding at the Statehouse.
Revenue forecasts for the state remain grim. Surging salaries, executive coaches and new positions make maintaining broad support even tougher.
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akron , oh
Posted 06:07 AM, 04/17/2009
i see , the democrats are in power so everyone should only hire democrats .
well is that why the county executives office hired mr. douglas wife for a no bid 130,000 dollar legal contract .
no editorial on that sweet heart deal .
