All paid for by you. From examiner.com.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is the First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS), by virtue of the fact that she is married to the President of the United States (POTUS). This is not an elected position, of course, and she does not receive a government salary, since she does not perform any official duties. Nevertheless, she finds it necessary to employ (at taxpayer expense) at least 22 staffers to serve her; not including the myriad cooks, butlers, gardeners, chauffeurs, and other functionaries needed to operate the Executive Mansion. Nor does this number include the large (but classified) number of security personnel detailed to protect her and her children.22 attendants and she's still getting children to work her garden for free.
Writing in the Canada Free Press, Dr. Paul L. Williams observes that Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary: “How things have changed! If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michele are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public.”
Dr. Williams makes ironic mention of the now-famous quotation from Mrs. Obama: “In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service.“ He then lists the “assorted lackeys:”
1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (CHIEF OF STAFF)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
5. Winter, Melissa E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
6. $90,000 - Medina, David S. (DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
11. Reinstein, Joseph B. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
14. Lewis, Dana M. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
18. Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
21. Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
22. Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
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Is Mrs Obama the first first lady to have this staff? Why hasn't any other first lady been questioned about who is working for her or how much they are being paid? America is a rascist nation, and these are racist questions being raised under the guise of economic prudence. This makes me ashamed to be american.
Wow! The race card. Is that all you have? Of course it is. You make me ashamed to be an american. You do.
But to answer your question, no, she's not the first first lady to have this staff. But she does have the second largest staff in history and a significantly larger staff than either of the Bush women or Hillary Clinton. She's also the only first lady who told America that they needed to "share their Pie and sacrifice". So, unless you're blind, you might see why we'd make a point of that large staff at this site. Not to mention, we're in a recession.
Playing the race card is not going to work anymore. Not here anyway. So come back when you have something intelligent to offer. So I guess I'll never see you again?
I think Anonymous was being sarcastic. Anywho, why does any First Lady have paid staff? How can that be constitutional? She's not elected, nor has any government job. We don't pay the POTUS enough to support his wife? When did we pick up royalty as part of our government?
Which First Lady was the most outrageous in this regard?
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Betty Ford was the most "outrageous," in that she had 28 staff members.
What's even sadder than playing the race card is how deep the ultra-right nutjobs have to dig to find dirt on the Obamas. Let's look at it this way--at least Michelle Obama didn't murder any of her high school sweethearts!
Betty Ford Had 28, there is real lie for you. not true get the facts correct
what crap betty ford ha 28? you can count up all the personal first lady staffers from kennedy to Bush and it would not add up to Queen Obam a royal staff.
As usual more BS from the "Big Feed"! You should call yourselves the big "BS"!
I think it's time we start fighting back against all the Right Wing Disinformation that's posted around here. These clowns post their email rumors here as fact, and then chortle for a few days. It takes a little time, but Factcheck or Snopes eventually posts the truth. Let's start by debunking the load of crap Bruce R was pushing the other day about Michelle Obama's staff, which, as it turns out, was a pack of lies:
Does First Lady Michelle Obama have an "unprecedented" number of staffers?
A: A spokeswoman for the first lady says that Michelle Obama currently has a staff of 24. That may indeed be the largest of any first lady, but Hillary Clinton, with 19 staffers, and Laura Bush with at least 18 and perhaps more, weren’t far behind.
According to the 2009 White House report to Congress, there are 16 people with a title specifically indicating they work for Michelle Obama’s office. In other words, there are 16 people with "first lady" somewhere in their title, such as Jocelyn Frye, deputy assistant to the president and director of policy and projects for the first lady.
Stephen Plotkin, reference archivist for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, told us in an e-mail that Jacqueline Kennedy’s office was "headed" by one person, but said that there were "at least 9 people working for Mrs. Kennedy, with the promise of a great many more" during her time at the White House.
Kim Coryat, an archives technician at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, told us it can be difficult to nail down a precise count of staff considering "White House staffing for all offices ebbs and flows with time." But she said in an e-mail that White House telephone directory records indicate that Hillary Clinton had at least a staff of 13 as of October 1993; 18 as of April 1997; and 19 as of March 2000.
Lelyveld said that Michelle Obama’s staff was actually no different than that of her predecessor, Laura Bush. "[W]e have exactly the same staff number as Mrs. Bush and our office organization reflects a similar staffing model, so insinuations otherwise are wrong," she said. Lelyveld said that the White House’s "personnel records indicate" that there were 24 staffers for Laura Bush at some point. We were able to verify at least 18 staffers for Laura Bush, as of June 30, 2008, via the 2008 White House staff list published in The Washington Post’s White House Watch column. Sixteen people were specifically referred to as a "first lady" staffer, and Amy Zantzinger and Dorothy Thornton served as White House social secretary and deputy social secretary, respectively. It’s possible that someone with the title of "staff assistant" was assigned to the Office of First Lady as well, as is the case with Michelle Obama’s staff.
The combined annual salaries for the 22 staffers we can specifically identify as working for Michelle Obama come to $1.6 million. For the 18 we could identify as working for Laura Bush in 2008, the total is $1.4 million.
Dr. Myra Gutin, a professor of communications at Rider University and a first ladies historian, says that the first lady’s role has certainly "grown and evolved" since the 1960s, but generally speaking, the first lady’s "staff numbers about 14-16." Gutin told us she recalled "some first ladies have had staffs of more than that."
Since 'Anonymous' is so ashamed to be an American (just like Michelle) she has the freedom to move somewhere else.
Once again...for the idiot Obama worshipers. None of those other first ladies went around telling hard working Americans they need to give up a piece of their pie. Michelle Obama, on the other hand, did do that. Now we know why she wants us to give up pieces of our pie. She wants to eat it.
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