Way to enforce the hiring freeze, Gov. Perdue:
Records kept at the Office of State Personnel catalog the exemptions that were deemed so essential they couldn’t be frozen. Among them:
A Wine & Grape Council marketing specialist was reclassified as a legislative research assistant, who will help the Department of Commerce “provide a more comprehensive focus on job creation legislation.”
A hire was authorized for the vacant position of communications director for the lieutenant governor. The job went to Schorr Johnson, who was out of a job as Sen. Marc Basnight’s communications director when Basnight resigned in January.
Hey, this sort of thing happens in the private sector, too, as commenter ‘Lockstep’ points out. His wife made him hire her idiot brother.
