He lacked experience, left the application mostly blank but got a $110,000 state job

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Source: Miami Herald

He lacked experience, left the application mostly blank but got a $110,000 state job

BY MARY ELLEN KLAS
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau

AUGUST 08, 2017 2:39 PM

TALLAHASSEE

Before Gov. Rick Scott named Taylor Teepell to be the finance director of the New Republican Super PAC, the governor gave him a $110,000 job in Florida government for which he had no experience. ... For 14 months, the Louisiana native served in a top position in the Department of Economic Opportunity — as head of growth management oversight in Florida. When he left in May, he’d been given a raise — to $116,561— nearly three times the average state worker salary.

Teepell, 34, had spent a decade working as a Republican political operative and was campaign manager for former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s campaign for president. He had worked in the executive offices of Jindal and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, worked campaigns in Louisiana and Mississippi and was field director for Scott’s 2010 election bid.
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After Jindal’s five-month campaign ended in November 2015, Teepell needed a job. He moved to Tallahassee, rented a townhouse from former Scott legislative affairs director Jon Costello and applied to head the division charged with fostering “economic development and planning in the state’s rural and urban communities.”

Teepell filled out the standard application for the DEO job on Feb. 9, 2016 but left most of it blank. Instead, he referred to a two-page resume that listed 10 years working in political jobs and one year as marketing director at a Colorado printing company.　

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article166065557.html

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He lacked experience, left the application mostly blank but got a $110,000 state job

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[SunSeeker]

1. K & R for exposure.

[n2doc]

2. Swamp Thing

From the Swamp that will never be drained.

[dalton99a]

7. Yep.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Good work if you can get it... on the taxpayer's dime

[Stuart G]

4. K and R.. nt

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Little Taylor Teepell and Little Stevie Miller

[flibbitygiblets]

6. "Page boy"? Just musing out loud. /nt

[lark]

8. That's Rick Scott and the FL Repugs for you, vile and stupid as they come.

My bosses son had run 4 losing campaigns for local Repugs, running for local offices, and never ever came close to winning, even though Repugs win everything in deep red No. FL. So with this stellar background, he got hired by Rick Scott and worked there during his first term, basically accomplishing nothing. So he got fired. He did manage to find a girlfriend who had worked for Scott for years. 9 months later, bosses son got hired by Scott again after being asked to do this by son's wife. So son is making lots of $ now and is still a total failure, except he found the right wife.

[dembotoz]

9. Both parties have young pups who u look at and say Jesus Christ how did they get that job

They paid their dues....whatever the hell that means
Past election cycle we were tripping all over kids who had an idea of a huge career boost when Hrc won...
Didn't turn out that way
The thug pups saw their careers take off.
He is just one

[csziggy]

10. Florida used to have an excellent merit based system of hiring state employees

Jeb! Bush started dismantling it as soon as he got into office and the downward slide has continued ever since.

[radical noodle]

11. I live in Florida

and posted to Facebook as how to spell corruption.

[dchill]

12. His facial expression is identical to that of...

my daughter's new rescue puppy.

[TheFrenchRazor]

13. nope, no corruption here.... nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. Greggy and Dougy and some of the other Hitler youth.