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$85,000/yr Little Ricky moving on from DHHS... already.
Top spokesman at embattled DHHS to depart
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Ricky Diaz is taking a vice president post at Fifty Plus One (FP1) Strategies, a top-tier Republican firm that specializes in political advertising and communications.
“It was an opportunity that presented itself and one that I can’t pass up,” Diaz said in an interview Wednesday. “I just wanted to get back into politics, and this gives me the opportunity to work on campaigns around the country.”
Diaz, 24, said his departure is not related to the repeated controversies plaguing the McCrory administration’s state health agency. Democratic lawmakers and critics are calling for Secretary Aldona Wos’ ouster after the agency acknowledged sending nearly 50,000 children’s insurance cards with personal information to the wrong addresses, a violation of federal privacy laws.
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Wos’ hire of Diaz at an $85,000 salary generated its own criticism last year from state lawmakers who questioned the substantial salaries Diaz and another 24-year-old former McCrory campaign worker received given their qualifications. McCrory came to Diaz’s defense, saying he was “very well qualified” and the pay rate fit the job.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/08/3515713/top-spokesman-at-embattled-state.html#storylink=cpy
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Ricky Diaz is taking a vice president post at Fifty Plus One (FP1) Strategies, a top-tier Republican firm that specializes in political advertising and communications.
“It was an opportunity that presented itself and one that I can’t pass up,” Diaz said in an interview Wednesday. “I just wanted to get back into politics, and this gives me the opportunity to work on campaigns around the country.”
Diaz, 24, said his departure is not related to the repeated controversies plaguing the McCrory administration’s state health agency. Democratic lawmakers and critics are calling for Secretary Aldona Wos’ ouster after the agency acknowledged sending nearly 50,000 children’s insurance cards with personal information to the wrong addresses, a violation of federal privacy laws.
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Wos’ hire of Diaz at an $85,000 salary generated its own criticism last year from state lawmakers who questioned the substantial salaries Diaz and another 24-year-old former McCrory campaign worker received given their qualifications. McCrory came to Diaz’s defense, saying he was “very well qualified” and the pay rate fit the job.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/08/3515713/top-spokesman-at-embattled-state.html#storylink=cpy
