Budget-busting governors earn nation’s highest salaries

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, whose call for vast reductions in public employee compensation have made him one of the Republican Party’s most popular national figures, is the fourth-highest paid governor in the country, according to a study released last week by Stateline.

Christie earns $175,000 per More…

The Governor Who Wasn’t There

The drip, drip, drip of possible scandal keeps falling on Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.).

Gov. Mark Sanford left the Governor’s Mansion without a security escort, 38 times in 2008. In the first six months of this year, he left the mansion without security, 39 times.

Those trips are about

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