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BROWARD BLOG'S SOLUTION & THE PASSING OF WILLIAM F BUCKLEY

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Our Brother Bloggers North of The Border have proposed a solution to the pending court funding-JA furlough crisis: have the robed readers donate a small portion of their salary (like 5%) back to the State to be used to fund salaries for judicial assistants. From the Broward Blog:JAABLOG challenges all members of the Florida Judiciary to donate 5% of their pre-tax earnings to their local court administration budgets.In Broward alone, with 89 County and Circuit judges earning $137,000 and $145,000, respectively, the extra revenue would total a whopping $627,450. Across Florida, with 990 judges (including higher court judges who earn more), the savings would total over $7,000,000.The average Judicial Assistant (JA) earns roughly $35,000 a year, or $2,917 a month...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on February 27, 2008 (boomark / email).