{"id":601,"date":"2006-01-10T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T17:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/its_good_to_be_king.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:40:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:40:04","slug":"its_good_to_be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/its_good_to_be.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s Good To Be King"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Post reports that Jeanine Pirro’s campaign manager was fired, possibly because he was paying himself $16,000 a month<\/a>. (You may be asking yourself, “Campaign manager for what?” No matter.):<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old manager of Jeanine Pirro’s now-defunct Senate campaign was fired amid revelations he paid himself $16,000 a month, a source close to Pirro told The Post yesterday.<\/p>\n

Brian Donohue, a former Republican National Committee operative who was recruited by Pirro campaign consultant Kieran Mahoney, was let go last week as the former Westchester district attorney began a new campaign for attorney general, the source said.<\/p>\n

“Jeanine herself made the decision to let him go,” said the source.<\/p>\n

“He was clearly [in] over his head, inexperienced and inept — and the whole time, he’s paying himself $16,000 a month, while Jeanine was having trouble raising money.<\/p>\n

“People were stunned when they learned the figure.”<\/p>\n

In response, Donohue told The Post he wasn’t fired and said Pirro had asked him to stay.<\/p>\n

He contended Pirro would soon call The Post to confirm his claim, but she didn’t.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

He confirmed paying himself $16,000-a-month, noting that Pirro might not have been aware of his huge salary.<\/p>\n

“I decided [the salary] with other folks in the campaign,” said Donohue, who repeatedly refused to name the “other folks” involved.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, Mr. Donohue could argue that his salary was actually in the ballpark of other campaign salaries — at least if you’re part of Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Post reports that Jeanine Pirro’s campaign manager was fired, possibly because he was paying himself $16,000 a month. (You may be asking yourself, “Campaign manager for what?” No matter.): The 29-year-old manager of Jeanine Pirro’s now-defunct Senate campaign was fired amid revelations he paid himself $16,000 a month, a source close to Pirro told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}