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Update: How Brenda Snipes Double Dips

BY BUDDY NEVINS

Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes is a prime example of double dipping in the public trough.

Snipes is earning $4,336 monthly in state pension benefits from her time in the Broward school system. She also gets over $12,000-a-month from her job as supervisor, according to state records.

That’s roughly $200,000 annually…increasing every year.

Her salary was questioned in e-mail to Browardbeat.com after Sean Phillippi’s post on Monday.

Here is how Snipes ran up such a tidy salary:

She spent 30.4 years working for Broward Schools, ending her career in June 2003 as an area director. She was responsible for “leading principals at sixteen schools and center,” according to her official biography.

Prior to her retirement, Snipes entered DROP. That’s a state program placing money that would have gone to a pension into an account paid out in bulk upon retirement.

Snipes entered DROP in 1998 and cashed out in 2003. She received a payment of $193,330.

In November 2003, Snipes was appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush to replace Supervisor Miriam Oliphant, who he removed from office for incompetence.

So she gets a pension and her supervisor’s salary. Everything is on the up-and-up.

There are scores of public employees who retire and go right back to work for the same agency. They are either employed as “consultants” or right on the books as employees. This practice has been especially blatant in the past in the school system.

So Snipes’ story is not unusual. It is just expensive for taxpayers.

I might retire now. Poor poor me. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Check out my new expensive jacket.

Brenda Snipes, the elections supervisor for Broward County, Fla., who resigned after coming under scrutiny for the way her office handled vote counting during the Nov. 6 election, will receive nearly $130,000 in annual pensions once she leaves office in January, according to reports.

Snipes, 75, already receives a pension of more than $58,000 from her time as an educator and is poised to collect another $71,000 for 15 years as an elected official, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

"Although I have enjoyed this work tremendously over these many election cycles, both large and small, I am ready to pass the torch," Snipes wrote in her resignation letter to Republican Gov. Rick Scott. "Therefore, I request that you accept my letter of resignation effective January 4, 2019."

Broward County failed to turn in the recount results by the state’s deadline, lost thousands of ballots and opened 205 provisional early-voting ballots before their validity was determined.

Snipes was also found to have destroyed ballots in Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's 2016 Democratic primary race against Tim Canova.

Once she walks away from her $178,865-a-year-job, Snipes will be eligible for cost-of-living increases averaging between 2 and 3 percent. The average annual pension for elected officials in the state’s retirement plan for last year was $53,223, the paper reported.



I'LL MANAGE SOMEHOW...........................SUCKERS!

They got it out for us Snipes.

Loan me a few dollars?