You have got to be kidding 126 k for someone to inform the media. This state makes me sick!!!!While Carceri cuts programs for children he is going to pay someone 126 k a year to speek with the media when there an emergency!!Oh what once every 5 years. This govenor is a joke i cant wait to move out of this state!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay Steve, go ahead and leave. . . the rest of us won't miss you.

Thank God I moved out of Rhode Island! It seems it doesn't matter who the Governor is. Incestuous favoratism is still practiced and the poor working people bear the brunt of the corruption and gross misuse of funds.

Steve Kass was awful working in the Governor's office and now he is moving to EMA? He couldn't make in either TV or radio so now he moves someplace else at an alarmingly high salary. What a joke!
I am so very very disappointed in how the Carceri (a man I voted for twice.) has been managing the budget cuts. Get rid of Kass all together. Perhaps this was a move to get him out of the Governor's office.

What is wrong with this picture? Seems Carcieri is more concern about his friends than the people he is suppose to be representing... And the money?? Oh... Is this job part-time?

Were there any other applicants interviewed for this job?

Schools are going down the tube, crime is overtaking the Renaissance City and this guy gets 126K for a PR job.........PATHETIC

Bray's as much a piece of work as Carcieri. I hate to be negative about people, but both men have a very inflated opinion of themselves.
So now we add Kass to the mix and we find ourselves really wasting the taxpayer's dollars.
Will Kass be saluting Bray?

The governor’s true colors show through he is not out to reform the Rogue’s Island tax systems for anyone but his own political party hierarchy. The governor creates high paying jobs for those that have been loyal to him soon we will see these become non-classified permanent positions that they will continue to fill long after he leaves office.
It is these high paying politically connected positions that are hurting the RI taxpayer not the hourly state workers who daily put in a fair days work for a fair days pay. Over the years Directorships and other positions have been created as political reward posts. These directorships titles sound impressive as do the salaries that go with them, but the managers and hourly support staff still exist that were there before the directors and their staff came into being. Departments at the University of Rhode Island that were run with 2 directors in the 1990’s have swelled to 10 or 12 directors now while the staff that these “directors” oversee have remained flat and the management positions that existed prior to these directors still exists to run the day to day operations. Some departments have even been duplicated on the small campus which have several maintenance and repair departments each with its own set of directors, staffing, and storehouse with clerks, etc.
Yes our governor does take care of the RI taxpayer as he reaches deeper into their pocket and twists every truth that he can to benefit his political friends.

While I am a backer of the governor and a fan of Steve Kass, his salary is absolutely without any social redeeming quality.
It is immoral!

Carceri is and always has been an incompetent phony. Kass spent many years using his talkshow to get the governor elected. Carcieri is just rewarding him for being a "useful idiot". All while he cuts handicap people and helpless childrens benefits. Carcieri for Vice President? What a joke. He can bring his "BIG AUDIT" to the Federal government and save $14.26 like he did for RI.

This guy is a real pro - for once RI did something right in appointing him to such an important post. The young girl they have there now is doing double duty and has no communications experience - Kass will take this to a new level. He's highly credible and well known among the media - his salary is less than he could make in the private sector. Pay peanuts, get monkeys...right?

This appointment of Mr Kass to the EMA is the epitome of hypocrisy by the governor.

Mr Carcieri should be ashamed himself. And he should never again get on his high horse to intone that “One of the major problems we face is that the cost of staffing state government is too high”, as he did in his first State of the State address in 2003.

Mr Carcieri never seems to miss an opportunity to publicly state that we have to get state employees'wages and benefits “back in line with the vast majority of private-sector employees,”

His official website indicates that the "Governor said that state government must become more efficient and operate with fewer employees, and that state employee compensation and benefits must be comparable to those of the majority of the taxpayers."

Last year Governor Carcieri said, "Rhode Island has a spending problem. Each year, we try to spend more money than we are taking in through taxes. That can't continue. We can't keep asking Rhode Islanders to pay ever higher taxes because we don't have the political will to cut spending."

The governor sure does talk a good game. But talk is cheap and I, for one, am tired of hearing it. This appointment clearly shows that he is incapable of leading by example.

Other than the state's six inch snowfall "emergency" last December, I see no other looming emergency other than the state's fiscal crisis. I wonder what media releases Mr Kass will provide for that.