Former state Sen. Bob Geddes can use a new appointment to a state job to finish adding thousands of dollars a year to his taxpayer-funded pension. By checking the right boxes, Geddes could spike his pension a staggering 559 percent. Geddes will take the helm at the Department of Administration June 1, after Gov. Butch Otter announced the appointment Wednesday. “Bob is a steady and trusted hand who knows his way around state government,” Otter said in a prepared statement. “He has faithfully and conscientiously served the people of Idaho for many years”/Dustin Hurst, Idaho Reporter. More here.

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