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Â· Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Â·. The Weekly Standardâs Daniel Halper, who yesterday broke the story of a government leader reminding his employees to obey the law, unearths another scandal: the White House employs calligraphers. And pays them money! Chief White House Calligrapher Gets Paid $96,725 Per Year With the White House closing its doors to public tour groups in order to save money for the sequester, itâs worth remembering some of the other costs the White House incurs annually. Like the âChief Calligrapher,â Patricia A. Blair, who has an annual salary of $96,725, and her two deputies, Debra S. Brown, who gets paid $85,953 per year, and Richard T. Muffler, who gets paid $94,372 every year.
At The Weekly Standard, Daniel Halper singled out the White House calligraphy team. Chief Calligrapher Patricia A. Blair has an annual salary of $96,725; her two deputies earn $94,372 and $85,953 a year. In all, the White House appears to employ 3 calligraphers for a yearly total of $277,050, says Halper. Despite sequestration, there's been no announcement of the White House scaling back on calligraphers. (Watch a C-SPAN video on what the White House calligrapher does.) Thus began calligraphy-gate, says James Joyner at Outside the Beltway. The scandal is apparently that the White House employs calligraphers. And pays them money! It may seem a little silly that we're paying people good money to do fancy handwriting while threatening to furlough people doing real jobs, but it's worth remembering that the White House is, after all, home to the head of state of the most powerful nation on earth.