Michelle, Ma Belle and My Money!!

During last year’s election campaign and even after, Obama promised transparency. Well we got it but not quite in the way the hoi-polloi expected. They thought, because Obama told them, that all pending legislation would be posted on the Internet for all to see for at least 72 hours before any votes were taken.

He also “promised” to have the Obamacare congressional negotiations live on CSPAN. And he didn’t just make that promise once but at least 8 times in 2008 alone. Does Obama think we have no memory or that we cannot search the Web?


Well, I guess he does, because Obama comes from Chicago “thug politics and that’s what he knows.

Brian Lamb, the CEO of CSPAN even wrote a, now well-publicized, letter to the White House but to no avail because the current occupant of that illustrious residence has no more conscience than he does scruples.

So, I thought I’d help out with a little “transparency’ all of my own but, somehow I doubt I’ll be asked to join the White House staff or its press corps.

The first “Lady” receives no official salary as far as I can determine.

In the first year of her husband’s “reign”, she has made a few trips around the World on Air Force One and has shopped in Paris, London and elsewhere. At home she made a brief appearance on the “Food Network” and an briefer one at a Washington DC food bank wearing $500 design sneakers. Well, perhaps that’s what you are supposed wear to go down to the “’hood”. You wear designer “bling” in order to show how far you’ve come,

One thing is for sure, none of the list that follows are doing a good job if their responsibilities include appropriate fashion guidance.

Remember the shorts on the steps of Air Force One?

However, Michelle does retain a personal staff of more than 20 people

The salaries for staffers in the Office of First Lady and the highest paid is Chief of Staff Susan Sher, who gets the top $172,200. Here are the rest::-

140,000
Frye, Jocelyn C.
(DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)


$113,000
Rogers, Desiree G.
(SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY)


$102,000J
Johnston, Camille Y.
SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)

Winter, Melissa E.
(SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)


$90,000
Medina David S.
(DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)


$84,000
Lelyveld, Catherine M.
(DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)


$75,000
Starkey, Frances M.
(DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)


$70,000
Sanders, Trooper
(DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)


$65,000
Burnough, Erinn J.
(DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)

Reinstein, Joseph B.
(DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)


$62,000
Goodman, Jennifer R.
(DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)


$60,000
Fitts, Alan O.
(DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
Lewis, Dana M.
(SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)


$52,500
Mustaphi, Semonti M.
(ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)


$50,000
Jarvis, Kristen E.
(SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)


$45,000
Lechtenberg, Tyler
(ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)

Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)


$40,000
Boswell, Joseph J.
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)


$36,000
Armbruster, Sally M.
(STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)

Bookey, Natalie
(STAFF ASSISTANT)

Jackson, Deilia
DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)


Now do the math as I did and I came up with more than $1.5 million per year.

Is she getting her money’s worth?

Or, more importantly, are you? Because it’s your money..


Yer gotta love that “Hoax and Chains”

How’s it working for You?