Gov. Robert Bentley's Protector, Promoted over more Qualified Troopers and Gets Big Pay Check to Boot
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Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Sep 07 2014 12:59 PM
According to reports from Al.com: The head of Gov. Robert Bentley's security detail made $16,918 in just the month of August, thanks to overtime he earned following the governor across the globe.
At that rate Wendell Ray Lewis would pull in $203,000 a year, or about $112,000 more than his annual salary as a state trooper. It pushes his actual pay so far this fiscal year to $153,000, with a month still to go. It's almost fifty grand more than the colonel who runs the Department of Public Safety made in the same time period.
It sort of, um, flies in the face of the governor's whole "I don't take a salary" thing. It doesn't mean as much to skip a paycheck when your actions allow other people to double theirs.
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