The Rutledge Report, Part 1: Where there's a dole there's a Doyle. And a friend on a high court.
January 24, 20219:20 am Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s use of public money to provide plump featherbeds for Republican insiders. As we’d reported previously, former GOP Party Chair Doyle Webb got the biggest public teat — $150,000 a year as “staff director” of Rutledge’s one-third share of the board that oversees legislative apportionment. Former Republican legislators Andy Davis and Doug House are suckling on the state nozzle at $6,666 a month to work on the same project. Advertisement Wickline’s article provided some useful history. Ten years ago, when the board of appo...