[NormsRevenge]

9 Ds, 5 Rs will pass on the slop.

[Regulator]

When you compare the skills required and the time required I think that the pay is about right

She asked for the job. No one forced it on her. She knew the pay when she ran for election.

I know of no other job where the employees get to vote themselves a raise, and then take it from other people at the point of a gun (well, the governing board of the Gambino family, I suppose, but we're talking about law abiding society here, allegedly).

We all know Kuehl is twisted freak socially, but I thought you at least had to have a bit of logic to get into Hahvahd.

Guess not.

[LA Conservative]

We have the highest paid and worst performing legislature in the country.
We have the most expensive public school system and the worst performing.
We have the most powerful unions who have both the legislature and the school boards in their pockets.

[NormsRevenge]

Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman, R-Fullerton, who also accepted the raise, said judges and some local government officials make more than legislators.

"I didn't go into it for the money," he said. "I took a pay decrease when I came here, which my wife reminds me of daily."


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It's a pay equity thing, per Dick.

I think he ran for State Treasurer in 2002 with Bill Simon.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, who plans to take the pay raise, said she is in the bottom 10 percent of income among members of her Harvard Law School class.

"I also work nights and weekends," she said. "When you compare the skills required and the time required I think that the pay is about right."

Not as a hooker or stripper, I hope :-o