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California elected officials' pay to be cut 18%
LA Times ^
| 05/20/09
| Patrick McGreevy and Ann Simmons
Posted on 05/20/2009 1:27:21 PM PDT by freespirited
A state panel this morning slashed the salaries of elected state officials by 18% -- a day after voters rejected a plan by the governor and Legislature to address the budget crisis.
Citing pay cuts and layoffs being imposed on rank-and-file state workers, the California Citizens Compensation Commission approved the reduction for the governor, legislators and other state officials elected next year.
"I think they should share in the sacrifices that everyone else has had to encounter," said Commissioner Kathy Sands, a former Auburn mayor, after the panel's 5-1 vote at a meeting in Burbank.
The commission had wanted to decrease current officials' pay, but the panel's attorney said California law does not allow that.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: calbudget; californiabudget; callegislature; paycut
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About damn time *something* was cut.
To: freespirited
Time to do this for FED employees, too....
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:28:07 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(WE have a REPUBLIC.....IF we can KEEP IT!!!)
To: freespirited
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:28:34 PM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: freespirited
Now we’re talkin’. (figure of speech, I haven’t actually spoke with any of them. LOL)
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:29:19 PM PDT
by
Miykayl
To: freespirited
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:29:54 PM PDT
by
linn37
To: freespirited
The commission had wanted to decrease current officials' pay, but the panel's attorney said California law does not allow that. So, the people who caused the problem will continue to receive their salary. The people who we want to go in and fix the problem will now get a lesser salary (which wasn't all that high to start with.)
This is just silly, IMO.
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:30:14 PM PDT
by
calcowgirl
(RECALL Abel Maldonado!)
To: goodnesswins
Not our troops though, but yeah, it’s time.
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:30:30 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
NO! I should have said “officials” but, actually lots of other FEDERALES should get pay cuts, but NOT troops, or Border Patrol, or Policing agencies...
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:31:44 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(WE have a REPUBLIC.....IF we can KEEP IT!!!)
To: freespirited
Make that 50% pay cut....
.... and "require" that all office furnishings be used or "military surplus"......One desk, one chair, one lamp, one box of bic pens,.....no carpet...linoleum only flooring....
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:32:08 PM PDT
by
cbkaty
(I may not always post...but I am always here......)
To: freespirited
Let me get this straight. An 18% pay cut that doesn’t really affect anyone? LOL!
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:32:28 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(Obamalama lied, the republic died.)
To: freespirited
Reading the article, this is little more than window dressing.
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:32:41 PM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
To: Seruzawa
Let me get this straight. An 18% pay cut that doesn’t really affect anyone? LOL! Excellent summation of the article.
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:33:14 PM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
To: goodnesswins
This was not employees, this was officials..
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:33:55 PM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
To: freespirited
Wait a second. Across the board? Shared sacrifice?
No No No No No.
PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR NEVER-CLOSING MOUTHS ARE, LIBERALS.
For any state employee making more than $100k/yr, take the rest. Because I keep hearing non-stop from you filthy hypocrites that no one "needs" more than a share that YOU deem worthy.
And since Hollywood constantly interfere with our voting process, they are, by extension, state employees too.
SO TAKE IT ALL...
Surely, they can "live" on 100k a year like the rest of us unwashed masses, eh?
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:34:03 PM PDT
by
kromike
To: freespirited
Um...nobody’s pay has been cut yet.
This is for people who have not been elected yet.
The current crop of bozos will keep their pay.
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:34:40 PM PDT
by
kidd
(Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
To: freespirited
How about having the state shoot one assembly member each week, name to be drawn from a hat, until the budget is balanced.
Would that not motivate them even more?
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:34:42 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: freespirited
Who’s the one dissenting vote?
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:34:44 PM PDT
by
BlueNgold
(... Feed the tree!)
To: freespirited
Now what about all of that bogus overtime many run up to pad their retirements???
To: freespirited
Fire half, cut the remaining pay in half, then make them earn it back.
“no workie, no bling”
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:36:19 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: freespirited
The commission had wanted to decrease current officials' pay, but the panel's attorney said California law does not allow that.
Laws can be changed. Git er done.
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posted on
05/20/2009 1:36:53 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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