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Senator Joins Outcry Over DHS Pay Hikes
11-06-2009 02:32 AM MST
| By ###David Rucker/psl ND)
(Oklahoma City, OK) -- Recent raises granted some top DHS officials has raised hackles in the legislature, first from Representative Randy Terrill, and now Senator Debbe Leftwich. Both call it outrageous at a time when the agency cut over seven-million-dollars from the Senior Nutrition Program. Leftwich wants senior services separate from DHS. Top elected officials are reported to be close to consensus about restoring nutrition program funding. Leftwich doesn't begrudge the raises, some of which range up to 18-hundred-dollars a month, but under current economic conditions, she calls the timing, quote, "pitiful."
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