UPDATE: Dannel’s Spring Break 2013 – The White House Correspondent’s Dinner April, 27 2013 - Wait, What?

Dannel’s Spring Break 2013 – The White House Correspondent’s Dinner April, 27 2013 - Wait, What?:

Meanwhile, did you get paid $900 for working Sunday?

by jonpelto

No?

Well you need a contract like Paul Vallas, Bridgeport’s “superintendent of schools.”

According to the legal version of his contract, “…Mr. Vallas shall be paid a salary of $4,500 per week…It is understood and agreed that Mr. Vallas may engage in other employment and/or volunteer activities during the term (e.g. volunteer efforts in Haiti), the specific days of which will be taken in coordination with the Board Chairman and that he shall not receive compensation from the Board (at a debit of $900 per day) for days on which he engages in such activities.”

Simple enough…

According to his contract, when Mr. Vallas is off doing consulting for his company, The Vallas Group, or away from the district for any other reason, his $234,000 is reduced by $900 a day.

And not surprisingly, Vallas is away a fair amount of time.

According to the last schedule posted by Vallas’ staff on the Bridgeport Schools website, a schedule that covers the period from August 22, 2012 through January 25, 2013, Vallas was away from the school district at least one day for six of the weeks covered by the 

Dannel’s Spring Break 2013 – The White House Correspondent’s Dinner April, 27 2013

by jonpelto

“Malloy’s office issued no press release” is what the Hartford Courant reported, but our governor flew off to Washington D.C on Friday to join Conan O’Brien, Barbara Streisand, Kevin Spacey and a host of movie stars and media personalities at Saturday night’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner.

Or as Justin Bieber puts it in his “hit song” “Party like it is 3012″;

“Show you off, tonight I wanna show you off
What you got, a billion could’ve never bought

We gonna party like it’s 3012 tonight
I want to show you all the finer things in life
So just forget about the world, we young tonight
I’m coming for ya, I’m coming for ya”

Making the evening all the more magical was the fact that for first time, the television network, E! Entertainment, announced that it would “live stream the red carpet.  In fact, you can see a slide show of some of the best dressed here: http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/04/red-carpet-white-house-correspondents-dinner.html#slideshow=/slideshows/2013/04/26/white_house_correspondentsredcarpet2013.slideshow.json.slideshow.json%7CcurrentSlide=00045

According to today’s Hartford Courant, Governor Malloy was a guest of People Magazin