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Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
Mamie Eisenhower : 1 (paid for personally out of President's salary)
Jackie Kennedy: 1
Roseline Carter: 1
Barbara Bush: 1
Hilary Clinton: 3
Laura Bush: 1 Michele Obama: 22
My 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 Mrs Obama are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU, John Q. Public:[/SIZE]
Michele Obama's personal staff:
1. $172,200 - 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 for Mrs. Obama)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 - 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 - Lel yveld, 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. $64,000 - 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. $57,500 - 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. $43,000 - Tubman, Samanth a (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. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady) TOTAL = $1,591,200 IN ANNUAL SALARIES
(Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe.)
Folks, there has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life. One has to wonder why she needs so much help -- at taxpayer expense!
I don't believe this to be true. In the past we have debated the merits of her huge staff, and have seen that with each first lady the staff grows and grows. I don't recall that MO is the only one to have her staff paid for by taxpayers, however.
I don't believe this to be true. In the past we have debated the merits of her huge staff, and have seen that with each first lady the staff grows and grows. I don't recall that MO is the only one to have her staff paid for by taxpayers, however.
Link up, baby.
Here's one link straight from her spokeswoman. There are other sources! You libs only want to see facts but can't produce your own when taken to the woodshed!
While I believe it to be wasteful, I also want to add that Michele Obama is no different than Laura Bush in this respect, and I have to question the first two posters: Why did you post all of Obama's and not of Bush's? Is your goal to play partisan politics or were you previously unaware that Laura Bush had as many as 24 staffers at 1.6$ million dollars per year?
I'm a fan of neither one, but how about some fair and balanced reporting? =P
From Factcheck:
"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 $1.4 million. For the 18 we could identify as working for Laura Bush in 2008, the total is $1.6 million."
Here's one link straight from her spokeswoman. There are other sources! You libs only want to see facts but can't produce your own when taken to the woodshed!
Umm, yeah - your link just disproved your point. It did say that Laura Bush had the same amount of attendents.
And for the record - I am completely against any First Lady having her staff - beyond say, five - being paid for by taxpayers. A staff of five or six should suffice whether the First Lady is a rep or a dem.
But then a conservative I am appalled at fiscal irresponsibility wether the offender is a dem (MO) or a rep (LB).
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Great post 
