Leftover bond funds go to energy program

Easy come, easy go. A year from now, no one will be able to produce as much as a receipt to verify the money was correctly spent. Energy programs such as this have a dismal success rate, especially in our state. This money would have been spent as a funding mechanism for the unfunded extra week of vacation the commissioners just gave county employees.

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correction - 'would have been better spent'

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"...Thompson told commissioners the program was looking for additional funding sources to get started, including possible grants from DuPont..."

Perhaps DuPont Chieftess Ellen J. Kullman could help out. Ms. Kullman just got awarded a whopping $16 million pay package from the rubber-stamping Directors on the DuPont Board she dominates as "Chair". ...funfun..

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EDITORIAL CORRECTION:

Earlier, we inadvertently misstated the latest pay package of DuPont CEO Ellen J. Kulllman as "$16 million." The correct amount of her award is $15 million, or $14,666,000.00 to be exact.

SOURCE: DuPont SEC Form 8-K, 01-25-13.

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sounds like a little jelousy from funfun.

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JR565MEM,

Why the sleazy off-topic personal attack initiated by you?

Are you shilling for DuPont Senior Management, the same Management which has killed the DuPont Pension Plan and stripped retirees of healthcare, long-promised years ago to those who have dedicated their working lives to building DuPont?

Readers, there looks like there might be a bit of PR sensitivity over the HUGE pay and perks paid to DuPont Chieftess Ellen Kullman and her circa 100 porcine Presidents and Vice Presidents. And another round of redundancies is coming...thousands more will have their jobs trashed, careers killed ...funfun..

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fun fun=go go. You hate DuPont so badly,then do something about it.

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Aaron L, a repeat heckler,

You rabid supporters and surrogates for DuPont Management never give up harassing citizens and DD shareholders expressing independent opinions, never give up launching off-subject personal attacks to disrupt discussion and intimidate readers, do you?

The undersigned has no personal animus against DuPont or any of its executives. We simply hold tenaciously to the old-fashioned notion that DuPont officers are hired hands of the owners, DD shareholders. As such they should be held accountable for their what they do, for their mistakes, mismanagement, and yes, even fraud. We won't even mention the performance of DuPont Management includes the documented historical and pervasive pollution of the environment, the water, and human bodies with an insidiously vile and harmful toxic Teflon chemical impacting tens of thousands...funfun..

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now funfun just because I don't worry about what everyone else has doesn't make me a heckler. Even I knew in high school that if you depend on a company, especially these days, whole heartedly you are going to end up on the bottom. The first place they take from is the hourly employees. So if you don't like that then you should be trying to take her job instead of biotching about it. No matter what you post on the net you are not going to change her pay. Besides that you mentioned getting off topic. But I don't beleive that Dupont or this lady you speak so highly of had anything at all to do with the article.

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but it does sound like to me that you spend an exceptionally high amount of time trying to get to these people from Dupont that doesn't even know or care that you exist wheather you work for them or not. Why not fix the problem and sue them again. Seems to have worked the first time. That vile toxin teflon, in which I do agree is a nasty toxin, hasn't slowed down being produced in the least. Take some of your own money and invest in their stocks it might weigh out what they take from you after you sue them.

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Readers, Another way to look at Ms. Kullman's towering $15 million pay cheque:

Take the hapless DuPont woman or man moiling and toiling on the factory floor in the noise, fumes, and contamination at DuPont's sprawling Teflon plant near Parkersburg. After a lifetime of dedicated work, she or he will not have made in total what Ms. Kullman pulls down in four weeks! To degrade the regular DuPonter even further, she or he will come to career's end without a DuPont pension and stripped of once promised retiree healthcare.

It seems to us maybe, just maybe the DuPont Company or Ms. Kullman individually could make a small grant to this worthwhile energy programme, particularly since some of her meagerly paid workers are driving the production which pays her enormous $15 million salary. And some of these DuPont workers may be direct beneficiaries of the programme. ...funfun..

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