From the Inbox - 1st lady's personal staff

Your tax dollars at work.

Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing China for the White

House during the Civil War.

Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal

secretary from her husband's salary.


Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by you the taxpayers:


Mamie Eisenhower: One -- paid for personally out of President's salary.

Jackie Kennedy: One

Rosaline Carter: One

Barbara Bush: One

Hilary Clinton: Three

Laura Bush: One

Michele Obama: Twenty-two

The benefit package for Mrs. Obama's servants are the same as members

of the national security and defense departments.


Michele Obama's personal staff:


1. $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)

2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President

and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)

3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the

President and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)

4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the

President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)

5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa (Special Assistant to the President

and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

6. $90,000 Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

7. $84,000 - Lilyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary

to the First Lady)

8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and

Advance for the First Lady)

9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and

Project for the First Lady)

10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B.(Deputy Director and Deputy

Social Secretary)

12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling

and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)

13. $60,000 Fitz, Alan O.(Deputy Director of Advance and Trip

Director for the First Lady)

14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide

to the First Lady)

15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy

Press Secretary To The First Lady)

16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant f or Scheduling

and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)

17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of

Correspondence For The First Lady)

18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samantha a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)

19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief

Of Staff to the First Lady)

20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)

21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)

22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of

Correspondence for the First Lady)


Total $1,591,200 in annual salaries all for people we did not vote

for, and apparently have no control over.


There has never been anyone in the White House with such an army of

staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's

social life.


Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe.

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