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--- "Hampton, Nathan E." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In 1931 Babe Ruth signed a baseball contract for $80,000 which was greater than President
> Hoover's $75,000.
When I started reading your post, I thought that you were going to reference his famous retort:
Ruth was asked by a reporter what he thought of his yearly salary of $80,000 being more than
President Hoover's $75,000. His response: "I know, but I had a better year than Hoover." [That's
in Wikipedia, so it must be true!].
Seriously, that making more than the governor argument is a red herring. I would imagine in
pretty much every state in the US, the highest paid public employee is a coach, and in most cases,
it's a football or basketball coach who has a seven or eight digit salary, and most of them didn't
have as good a year as Umile did. Fire him if you want, but not because he makes more that the
governor.
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