Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey Supplements Executive Assistant/Former Lobbyist's State Pay With PAC Money
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Lawmaker aide's pay from PAC questioned
By Andy Sher, Nashville Bureau
The Chattanooga Times Free Press
Chattanooga, TN - NASHVILLE -- A top aide to newly elected Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, R-Blountville, received $47,800 in "supplemental pay" over the past two years from a Ramsey-controlled political action committee whose contributors included special interests, records show.
The Republican lawmaker's leadership PAC, called RAAMPAC, paid $11,700 in 2005 and $36,100 last year to then-Majority Leader Ramsey's executive assistant Matt King, according to filings with the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance.
Contributors to the PAC at the time included tobacco giants R.J. Reynolds ($1,500) and Altria Group Inc. ($1,000) as well as other interests with issues before the General Assembly, including the Tennessee Realtors Association ($7,500) and beer wholesalers ($1,000).
The PAC payments came on top of Mr. King's taxpayer-funded legislative salary of $81,042 in 2005 and $66,381 in 2006, records show.
"In order to bring me back to the level of income I'd had from my last job, the leader agreed to supplement my income through RAAMPAC," Mr. King said.
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Mr. King is a former state Republican Party executive director who later worked for the National Federation of Independent Business and then as a public affairs consultant and lobbyist [with the Ingram Group of Nashville] before joining Sen. Ramsey's staff in 2005.
[...more at link.]
King's lobbying clients in 2004 included; Ampharm, Parsons, Tennessee; Coleman Technologies, Orlando, Florida; Covansys Corporation, Farnington Mills, Michigan; M/A-Com, Inc., Lynchburg, Virginia; Memorial Health Care, Nashville, Tennessee(?); Metro Nashville Airport Authority, Nashville, Tennessee; Tenn. Assoc. for Child Care, Nashville, Tennessee.
Lawmaker aide's pay from PAC questioned
By Andy Sher, Nashville Bureau
The Chattanooga Times Free Press
Chattanooga, TN - NASHVILLE -- A top aide to newly elected Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, R-Blountville, received $47,800 in "supplemental pay" over the past two years from a Ramsey-controlled political action committee whose contributors included special interests, records show.
The Republican lawmaker's leadership PAC, called RAAMPAC, paid $11,700 in 2005 and $36,100 last year to then-Majority Leader Ramsey's executive assistant Matt King, according to filings with the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance.
Contributors to the PAC at the time included tobacco giants R.J. Reynolds ($1,500) and Altria Group Inc. ($1,000) as well as other interests with issues before the General Assembly, including the Tennessee Realtors Association ($7,500) and beer wholesalers ($1,000).
The PAC payments came on top of Mr. King's taxpayer-funded legislative salary of $81,042 in 2005 and $66,381 in 2006, records show.
"In order to bring me back to the level of income I'd had from my last job, the leader agreed to supplement my income through RAAMPAC," Mr. King said.
[...]
Mr. King is a former state Republican Party executive director who later worked for the National Federation of Independent Business and then as a public affairs consultant and lobbyist [with the Ingram Group of Nashville] before joining Sen. Ramsey's staff in 2005.
[...more at link.]
King's lobbying clients in 2004 included; Ampharm, Parsons, Tennessee; Coleman Technologies, Orlando, Florida; Covansys Corporation, Farnington Mills, Michigan; M/A-Com, Inc., Lynchburg, Virginia; Memorial Health Care, Nashville, Tennessee(?); Metro Nashville Airport Authority, Nashville, Tennessee; Tenn. Assoc. for Child Care, Nashville, Tennessee.
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