Topic: How's the Prosecuting Attorney Doing?

[Chas]

Congratulations Kevin. It will be interesting to see how well you and the PCSD work together.  I have said recently that it was a he said she said type of deal.  I like many others hope that this will be a much better partnership. I also hope as PA that you still be on this site to update the people and to defend yourself if need be.  Which I hope you never have to.  Now let’s throw some methheads in jail.

[Valor7]

Wonder how the Lame Duck is doing today and what her reaction is?  Congratulations Kevin on a resounding win.

   She came into the office at 4am today and has a ton of cases (law day) set for hearrings and reviews today. We have 38 inmates in the jail and all are waiting to go to third floor. It will be a long day.
JB

[kevinhillman]

I'll still be on here.  Maybe Rick can put a thread that is "Ask the Prosecutor a question" or something like that.  Remember though, I still have to win in November.
-Kevin

Congratulations Kevin. It will be interesting to see how well you and the PCSD work together.  I have said recently that it was a he said she said type of deal.  I like many others hope that this will be a much better partnership. I also hope as PA that you still be on this site to update the people and to defend yourself if need be.  Which I hope you never have to.  Now let’s throw some methheads in jail.

[Chas]

Cool. You will win.

[HCC]

Great job Kevin. Now that the primary is over, get to work. Let the games begin. Again, big time kudos to Rick.

[Valor7]

Great job Kevin. Now that the primary is over, get to work. Let the games begin. Again, big time kudos to Rick.

   Agree 150% with you on this post. On to November!!!
JB

[Lepard LLC]

Thanks.
 

Great job Kevin. Now that the primary is over, get to work. Let the games begin. Again, big time kudos to Rick.

[Lepard LLC]

Maybe we should just go ahead and put that up, the chances of you losing are nix to nine to nada. Kidding I'll wait.. Thanks for being a stand up guy.. If all the politicians were like you, this board wouldn't need to exist.

I'll still be on here.  Maybe Rick can put a thread that is "Ask the Prosecutor a question" or something like that.  Remember though, I still have to win in November.
-Kevin

[Lepard LLC]

I might add she didn't leave until 8:30pm last night. No doubts she works.

   She came into the office at 4am today and has a ton of cases (law day) set for hearrings and reviews today. We have 38 inmates in the jail and all are waiting to go to third floor. It will be a long day.
JB

[Lepard LLC]

Just saw in the news that the Prosecutor from Phelps Count (Rolla area) since losing the election has filed very few charges. Her comaprable numbers from last year were around 700 and now are around 100 for the same time period.

[cowboy]

I'll bet the pay is still the same

[Lepard LLC]

Here is the story. http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-citizens-criticize-outgoing-pr-121310,0,2419287.story
 
 

Just saw in the news that the Prosecutor from Phelps Count (Rolla area) since losing the election has filed very few charges. Her comaprable numbers from last year were around 700 and now are around 100 for the same time period.

[Probie]

wonder if they would investigate it in pulaski if enough of us told them about it

[cowboy]

heard on the radio that Hooper is now suing the county for over $43,000 in back pay. 

[matrsnot]

She will need the money.  Who is going to hire her from the outside?

[Yankee Trader]

heard on the radio that Hooper is now suing the county for over $43,000 in back pay. 

Wonder how she can be successful with that if the State sets the wages earned by office holders.

[okie the thread killer]

check it out, she has a case. the law says the prosecutor is to be paid the same as associate judge...was not being done.

[darrellmaurina]

heard on the radio that Hooper is now suing the county for over $43,000 in back pay. 

 

Prosecuting Attorney Deborah Hooper

Hooper sues county for $43,000; lawsuit claims she wasn't paid enough
PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (Dec. 29, 2010) — While county commissioners ended their Monday morning meeting thinking they had a $102,000 end-of-year fund balance, they ended the day being served lawsuit papers at their homes by Bobby Ray, a bail bondman who delivered a lawsuit by outgoing Prosecuting Attorney Deborah Hooper claiming the county hadn’t paid her enough money and demanding an extra $43,715.98. According to the lawsuit, county commissioners erred by paying Hooper only $96,000 per year rather than the $106,181 per year she says she was entitled to receive beginning July 1, 2007 and $109,366 beginning July 1, 2008. State law specifies in RSMo. 56.261.1 that the salary of a full-time prosecutor is to be equal to that of an Associate Circuit Judge; the Missouri Citizens’ Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials, which is authorized by Article XIII:3 of the Missouri State Constitution, set those higher rates on Dec. 1, 2006. Hooper’s lawsuit says the county “refuses to recognize the higher pay scale established by ... that Commission” having “taken the position that a mid-term increase in the Prosecuting Attorney’s salary violates the constitutional prohibition of Article VII, Section 13, that ‘the compensation of State, County and Municipal officers shall not be increased during the term of office.’” Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...
By Darrell Todd Maurina

[Probie]

I bet this evidence won't get lost.

[Probie]

This explains why most of her cases haven't went threw to much time filing one against the county... 

[Eeyore]

why did she not bring this up til now?  Did she not know she was underpaid?

[darrellmaurina]

why did she not bring this up til now?  Did she not know she was underpaid?

She's raised the issue for a number of years. Bill Ransdall disagreed and called the Missouri Association of Counties and relied on their legal advice. The rest of the commissioners basically followed his lead. But he isn't the one getting sued.