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Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 July 2008 10:22 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 30 July 2008 09:29
Now this is just absurd. According to this article, this guy was working more than 24 hours a day – that’s just crazy. Nobody in their right mind could possibly work 27 hours a day! Maybe this guy has figured out how to squeeze more into a day than anybody else. This type of outside the box thinking could truly jump start America’s economy. When does he sleep? When does he eat? Has he no social life? If he can work 27 hours a week he’s more manly than Chuck Norris! From The Morning Call:
Around House Democratic Whip Mike Veon’s office, they had a nickname for Jeff Foreman — ”The Grim Reaper.”
During campaign season, Foreman would work his way through his boss’ offices on the Capitol’s fourth floor, court documents show. Stopping at each desk, he’d ask each employee if they wouldn’t mind ”volunteering” to help elect Democrats.
Then Veon’s chief of staff, Foreman rarely took no for an answer, the documents show, and he once reduced a reluctant employee to tears because she knew she’d have to miss trick-or-treating with her young son to comply with his request.
When he wasn’t pressing staffers into service to boost the Democrats’ political fortunes on the public dime, Foreman was doing work for his private law practice (at a rate of $200 an hour) from his state office, the documents show.
For these efforts, Foreman, of Harrisburg, was paid a state salary of $126,204 in 2006, plus a taxpayer bonus of $14,815.
Now Foreman, a lawyer on the staff of Whip Keith McCall, D-Carbon, is without his state job, at least temporarily.