Arkansas AG, Who Got a 77% Raise, Brags Federal Judge Just Blocked Overtime Rule for 4.2M workers

[TexasTowelie]

A federal judge has just blocked the Obama administration's new rule regulating overtime pay, which was about to increase the wages of 4.2 million lower-income workers. On Tuesday evening U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant in Sherman, Texas, ruled the regulation is unlawful.

Representatives from twenty-one states, including the attorney general of Arkansas, joined together with "a coalition of business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce," in a lawsuit against the federal government, Reuters reports. The new regulations were to go into effect next week, on December 1.

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge immediately took to Twitter to brag that the judge granted her request.

Rutledge, 40, was elected in 2014 and took office in January of 2015, earning a salary of $73,132. In March of that year, Rutledge and other top elected officials, including the governor, received exorbitant salary increases. Her salary was increased to $130,000, a 77.7% increase.

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[WhiteTara]

1. Yeah, that's my AG. I'm so proud.

We live in one of the poorest states and it is so red that it makes me cry. I live in the tiny little blue area of the state which is a haven for the misfits of society.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. That's what happens in states overrun by Republicans, aka, fascists.

[justgohogs]

3. Huh?

Please tell me you don't really believe that $130,000 annually is an exorbitant salary for the Attorney General of the state. Certainly it's greater than the earnings of the average Arkansan, but $130,000 for an attorney is chump change. Regardless of what you think of Ms. Rutledge, she wasn't responsible for the increase in earnings. I believe a blue-ribbon commission--of which Ms Rutledge was not a member--recommended the increase.

[TexasTowelie]

4. Nobody is claiming that a salary of $130K for an attorney is exorbitant.

Competent attorneys and some who are incompetent but have the right connections can make more. The article is pointing out that while she received a substantial increase in her salary, she is opposed to other people much further down the ladder than she is are going to be knocked out of earning more money. The article illustrates her attitude towards others and that she doesn't believe that they are deserving of a pay increase.

If Rutledge has a problem with her $130k salary then she is welcome to leave the public sector and try to do as well in the private sector. I know plenty of attorneys that don't draw as much income and some that have law degrees that aren't employed in a legal field. Some of those who have passed the bar are actually serving as bartenders instead.