[agrace]

What's the story? I did a google search and found that the raise was over 10k in base pay and that the dem minority leader stripped 15 dems who voted against the pay raise from leadership positions (nice strong arm there), but what's the history of the whole thing?

[grjr21]

The story isn't Dem or Rep.
It's elected officials against their consistuants
Large Pay raise done in secret in the middle of the night.

[oldtimer2]

The pay raise was done at 2:00 am and to get around the law that the raise could not take effect until after an election, they added an unvouchered amount equal to the raise for this year. The raise made them the second highest paid legislators in the country. They also added a section that in the future their pay will automatically go up at the same as U.S.Congress so that they will never have to vote on a pay raise again.
There is a serious effort to target every incumbent next election.