As stocking stuffers for termed out politicians, appointive state board jobs aren’t budget busters, but they occupy symbolic space in the public’s view of Sacramento as a self-perpetuating cronyism machine.
Add: The Bay Citizen looks at Gov. Jerry Brown’s efforts to chop out 43 of the boards, and the poster child for the current system is . . . San Francisco’s own ex-state Senator Carole Migden. She’s working on her second cushy appointment since Arnold Schwarzenegger named her to the Integrated Waste Management Board back in 2008. An excerpt:
And after that board was disbanded in January 2010 to save money, Schwarzenegger appointed Migden to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board. The San Francisco Democrat now earns $128,109 a year to attend two meetings a month.
Migden's qualifications? She spent nearly two decades in local and state elected positions. She is also a longtime friend of Schwarzenegger’s former chief of staff, Susan Kennedy.
