R.I. Senate chief of staff, fiscal adviser named
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PROVIDENCE -- Presumed R.I. Senate President-elect Teresa Paiva Weed announced the appointment of two top staff members this afternoon. Former state senator Tom Coderre will serve as chief of staff to the Senate president, while former Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council policy director Peter Marino has been tapped to become the Senate fiscal adviser. Coderre has served as the national field director for Faces and Voices of Recovery, a Washington-based addiction advocacy organization, since 2006. He acknowledges that he has a substance abuse problem, and has been drug and alcohol free since May 2003. Coderre, who is the son of state Rep. Elaine Coderre, served in the state Senate from 1995 to 2003. Marino, meanwhile, will lead the Senate's fiscal office beginning Dec. 22, a critical time for state leaders. The Assembly must close massive budget deficits in the coming months and Marino has an opportunity to influence that discussion as the Senate's top budget official. Marino's perspective may differ from that of his predecessor, recently retired Russell Dannecker, who has taken a job at the Poverty Institute at Rhode Island College. Marino's longest work experience came at the business-backed RIPEC, where he served as policy director from 1995 to 2006. He had previously worked as a budget analyst for the governor's budget office from 1992 to 1995. Earlier this year, Marino worked as an independent lobbyist, according to the Secretary of State's office, representing business-related clients in the previous legislative session such as the National Federation of Independent Business, the Rhode Island Association of Realtors, the Rhode Island Health Care Assocation, and the Rhode Island Mortgage Bankers Association. Marino will earn $125,000 a year in his new position, slightly less than Dannecker's $135,796.80, which included longevity increases, according to Senate spokesman Greg Pare. It's unclear when Coderre will begin and how much he will earn. The current chief of staff, Ed Morrone, earns $145,154 working for outgoing Senate president Joseph Montalbano. Pare said that Morrone would "likely stay on in a different capacity." Paiva Weed "will appoint a transition team to review the staff structure," Pare said, declining to be more specific. 
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Something really has to be done about these soaring 'public service' paychecks. Are we paying these people so much money because they do such a darned good job, or is it all hush money because these guys are onto a whole lotta truth?
Also, for a guy who used to be in the paper every other week about being busted for cocaine, how come Coderre doesn't even have a criminal record?
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This state just gets dirtier, not cleaner. Laws for the Ins, other laws for the Outs. We are becoming more and more like a South American banana republic, only without the Death Squads. Maybe when Obama's WPA program run by the military materializes, we'll get those, too.
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Yes, it is still all about beans!
Given the reactive attempt to do something -
Apparently the RI state General Assembly still does not get it!
Does taking on yet more bean counters exhibits that they are still full of beans?
Yes, Whereas it is still all about beans!
Perhaps the RI General Assembly has gotten confused with a now very shop worn tool from the world of SR Carport nmgrs and professional bean counters?
Please remember that bean counters will not plant cultivate or harvest the beans. Bean counters will not designate how to distribute the beans. They will observe and tally the beans alone.
Yes, also beware of today s more popular tools for speaking of beans. That is six sigma is about behavior modification for collaboration and how to bench mark & measure what ever process and or policy and procedure etc. Both the policy development plus its adaption muust be followed the associated skills and knowledge base. Yes, is subsequent and still where the rubber hits the road.
Caution many a business have been ruined by the latest fad in business including miss application of Six Sigma to manage the beans alone vs managing the total business..
Again - I suggest that the theory of beans is a better foundation than the latest tools being embraced perhaps void of critical thinking and with out question or precision in application.
That is hiring yet another bean counter function to keep track of the uncooked supply of beans when the problem is much simpler.
Yes, especially when the RI General Assembly can not get any more beans. Yes, the RI General assembly has taxed and seized an unreasonable amount of beans from small businesses that when successful can grow beans. Hence those bean growers have departed for friendly and less greedy environments.
Second in The RI General Assembly modified budgets the State of RI continues in spending way to many beans (overspending) on a floored set of priorities. Your annual budget identifies the same beans to all to many agendas while you underestimate the replenishment of bean supply.
Moreover the RI General Assembly continues to pay to many beans for any and all services and wages / benefits & pensions.
The RI General Assembly allows totally separately and inefficient school systems to exist that consumes all to many beans for the quantity and quality of services rendered. Here again the solution is very simple reduce the number of independent bean counters and bean administers and bean managers. That means consolidate & regionalism for the entire management and delivery of education services. Same for Fire, police, DPW etc.
The generational client provider welfare system must start teaching how to grow ones own beans, cook beans and take responsibility for managing their own beans.
Finally the RI General Assembly seem to be allowing some of their "Friends and good fellows" to just take free beans?
Solution - The RI General Assembly needs a policy change and a behavior modification. Yes, starting with learning all about beans.
That is the RI General Assembly must plant and cultivate more beans rather than just allow all the beans to be consumed (eaten).
The secondary benefit of a policy change is that in the future perhaps The RI General Assembly would not still be be so full of beans!
Yes, it is still all about beans and increasing the bean counters alone will not increase the supply of beans or resolve the question of the distribution of beans!
BEANS!
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Why are there ANY staffers for the RI General Assembly, particularly relatives of elected officials????? Nothing is changing with Paiva-Weed!
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Only in the bizzaro world that Don Carcieri lives in would cutting the pay of a person by $20,000 be an example of over spending. Does anyone remember this little episode when the Don moved Jerry Williams over from DOT to DO? C'mon mainstream Rhode Island media, develop a long memory like your friendly neighborhood bloggers here at RIFUTURE!
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