Will administer for food

Sun., Dec. 23, 2012

Thanks to the Spokane County commissioners, poor Marshall Farnell won’t have to subsist on a miserly stipend of $127,300 per year. Just think, no more living at the Union Gospel Mission or begging on street corners (“Will administer county for food; God Bless”). Tom Joad only thought times were tough.

Imagine trying to chisel out a hardscrabble existence on $127,300. It is only fair, really, to raise this poor devil’s pay 26 percent. Keeping up with the Joneses ain’t cheap, but it can be done by holding sheriff’s deputies pay increases to a minimum and cutting into the Sheriff’s Department’s budget.

Sheriff Knezovich should count his blessings and remember, one of the most dangerous jobs in the realm is county chief executive officer.

Kevin Anderson

Spokane

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