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| Resorts World CEO center? "Get me the name of those union leaders" he says. |
We are talking New York wages not Arkansas.
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| The new Eddie Borrego, Lynda Bell's Chief of Staff, drives a Mercedes and is said to park in Lynda's space at the county executive parking lot when she isn't there. Which Eddie went to Singapore? He doesn't have to worry about a living wage, his year to date gross is $109,713.48. Eddie what happened to Johanna Faddis? Will someone find out? |
So when Pepe Diaz and Lynda Bell say, the Casino will be good for jobs, think again. Read this story from New York. They had to be FORCED to pay a living wage. Remember, Lynda went to visit the Genting casino in a Singapore trip she made with her sidekick Eddie Borrego (we paid for both to go). Remember this New York story when Commissioners mention "jobs". This is why unions are necessary to fight greedy companies, like Malaysia's biggest corporation.
Resorts World, which has been spectacularly successful, did not dispute its ability to pay the salaries sought by the union, the Hotel Trades Council. The casino, which opened two years ago in southeastern Queens, attracts 35,000 visitors a day. It posted revenues of $696.5 million in the year ended in March and its electronic slot machines averaged $432 each a day in September, considerably more than slot machines in Atlantic City, Connecticut or Las Vegas
11 comments:
Ironic. This guy is making over 100k? At a time when everyone else is being asked to tighten their belts.
Eddie is a mensch and a highly qualified and experienced executive. He was running circles around Tallahassee when he was barely in college. 109K is modest and a bargain for this guy. You are off base here buddy.
An experienced executive wouldn't NEED to earn a living off the taxpayer dole directly. They'd earn it screwing the taxpayers by hiring the right lobbyist and getting the right contract.
Eddie wouldn't last a day in the private corporate world making less then $50K per year. Running circles around anyone in Tallahassee is pretty much an oxymoron these days. He seems to be more of a political groupie then an actual legislative brain trust.
Did taxpayers also pay for his weight loss surgery?
Experienced executive? What world are you leaving in anon? (Eddie)
wow, good for Eddie that he lost that weight. He may not be my favorite person, but he is healthier and that is an important thing for any person, and super important for a young man.
Wow. Good for Eddie. Bad for taxpayers mr. Borrego.
Sounds like borrego is milking the county and taxpayers.
Linda Bell voted against returning employees their five percent, but her chief of staff makes more than 100K. I wish I could understand politicians and opportunists. We need to do 2 things to avoid this:
Let's pay commissioners a decent salary (so we can get capable citizens to run for office).
Do not vote for the individuals who do a poor job as elected officials
Last anon, I'd take it one step further - a decent salary in exchange for public financing of county commission campaigns AND simple legislation prohibiting the use of PAC's or ECO's or whatever third party mechanism to fund campaigns at the county level. We will never level the playing field inside County Hall with the money poured in to the races, which is why the public won't approve the salary increase.
Bell is just carrying the Mayor's water. She went off twice at the union impasse hearings where workers were trying to get back a temporary 5% pay cut that was to sunset in 2014.
Bell went on about how rough it is now for her brother and/or husband's plumbing business. At the first hearing it was her bother who got laid off, the second hearing apparently her husband is also an unemployable plumber.. BTW weren't these guys rolling in dough during the Homestead boom or are they just lousy plumbers?
Anyway.
She rails on how high county workers are paid.
Actually county starts part timers at $11.04/hr and no insurance.. ironically Dade County has a "living wage" ordinance, county contractors must presently pay their workers $14.01 so we have county workers making $11.04 supervising unskilled day labor making 25% more but let's not confuse Ms Bell's rants with fact.
However Lynda, watching the Bell brand tank in the last Homestead mayor election, is now seeing well funded opposition lining up against her for upcoming district 8 race. County unions don't always get into BCC level elections but with her razor slim win for her district seat in 2000 and her swing vote on the labor issue, they can smell blood.
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