Chad’s Morning Brief: Lubbock County Commissioners Increase Their Pay, Majority of Americans Are Alarmed By ISIS, and Other Top Stories
Here is your Morning Brief for the morning of September 9, 2014. Give me your feedback below and tune in to The Chad Hasty Show for these and many more topics from 8:30 to 11am. Remember, you can listen online at KFYO.com or on your iPhone/Android with the radioPup App.
Pay Raise
Wouldn't you love to give yourself a raise? If you are a Lubbock County Commissioner playing with other people's money, it's pretty easy. County Commissioners voted 4-1 yesterday to approve their budget with only County Judge Tom Head voting against. Head by the way will see the largest pay increase going from $77,450 a year to $109,025. That would be a 42 percent increase. The other County Commissioners will see their pay go from $57,600 to $75,185. Not bad.
Commissioner Bubba Sedeno, who knew what the pay was when he ran for office, told the AJ:
“I made the motion today to approve the Lubbock County budget,” he said. “Leaders need to lead. Sometimes elected officials have to make some tough decisions when they are on that dais. We made right what has been wrong for a long, long time because these salaries for elected officials have been low.”
Pathetic.
Americans Concerned About ISIS
According to a new CNN Poll, Americans are ready for action against ISIS but that doesn't mean troops on the ground.
Seven in 10 Americans believe ISIS has the resources to launch an attack against the United States, just days before President Barack Obama plans to address the nation on the subject.
The poll released Monday shows that Americans favor:
-- Additional airstrikes against ISIS (76% favor, 23% oppose)
-- Military aid to forces fighting ISIS (62% favor, 37% oppose)
-- Providing humanitarian aid to people fleeing ISIS (83% favor, 16% oppose)
But a majority of Americans, 61%-38%, oppose placing U.S. soldiers on the ground in Iraq and Syria to combat the terrorist group.
Even as Americans support military action against ISIS, they still want Obama to seek authority from Congress before taking any action. More than 7 in 10 Americans think Obama should ask Congress for the ability to strike ISIS militarily. And 8 in 10 Americans support Congress approving military force against ISIS.
Obama, who described ISIS as a "serious threat" in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," is scheduled to speak to the nation Wednesday to outline his strategy to address the terrorist organization. He will meet with congressional leaders on Tuesday to discuss his plan.
While the CNN poll indicates Americans think ISIS has the ability to attack the United States, Obama said in the NBC interview there has been no "immediate intelligence" that signifies the terrorist group is a threat. And while Obama did not offer specific details of his plan to strike ISIS, he did take the idea of putting U.S. groups on the ground in Iraq and Syria off the table.
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