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Democratic congresswoman complains she can't afford to give up her paycheck
Daily Caller ^ | 7 Apr 2011 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 04/07/2011 11:55:19 AM PDT by mandaladon

With 8.8 percent unemployment across the country and more than 8 million people claiming unemployment benefits, one California congresswoman wants people to know they’re not the only ones facing financial hardship. Who else might be? The lawmaker herself.

In an appearance on MSNBC Thursday, Democratic California Rep. Linda Sánchez talked about the downsides of a federal government shutdown. Some lawmakers, to the seriousness of the issue, have said they would forgo their paychecks in the event of that shutdown. Sanchez explained she just can’t afford to go along with that idea.

“I have to tell you that I live paycheck-to-paycheck, like most Americans,” Sánchez said. “I’m still paying off my student loans. I have a 2-year-old son who I have to support, and I have to maintain residences on both coasts. It’s very difficult for me to say, ‘Hey, I can give up my paycheck,’ because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn’t make it possible for me.”

Members of Congress receive an annual salary of $174,000, whereas the median household income for American is a little over $46,000 annually. Nonetheless, Sánchez said it is really tough for her to stretch her paycheck that covers everything.

“Now, if you’re a member of Congress who is a millionaire, and there are quite a few members of the House and Senate that are, it’s really not a problem for them,” Sánchez said. “But they don’t share the experience that most Americans share, that I know, having grown up in a family of seven kids to immigrant parents that you have to really stretch a paycheck to make sure that it covers everything.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2getajob; congress; shutdown
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I feel sorry for this slob,she's a pathetic example of a member of congress.
1 posted on 04/07/2011 11:55:25 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

If the troops don’t get paid, CONGRESS DOESN’T GET PAID

Please Boehner and Cantor et al, make it so


2 posted on 04/07/2011 11:58:57 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: mandaladon

She makes $174 grand a year, and has trouble making ends meet?

Is she the congresswoman who had a baby out of wedlock? She mentions her 2 year old son, but no mention of a dad. Heck in her case, she really ought to be getting child support from him, but what do I know?????

She will really show her constituents how she feels their pain, as she struggles to make ends meet on $174K a year. (sarcasm)


3 posted on 04/07/2011 11:59:00 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: mandaladon

We the people have made them see themselves as royalty. A total “re-boot” is the only hope for this country. That or a Divine Intervention which I don’t believe will happen and don’t blame God for not intervening.


4 posted on 04/07/2011 11:59:28 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Only a SECOND party will get my vote.)
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To: mandaladon
Give me break. She's obviously living outside her means if she has to live paycheck to paycheck on 174k per annum.

She can't make it on that? Dry me a lizard.

5 posted on 04/07/2011 11:59:43 AM PDT by synbad600
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To: mandaladon

Maybe she ought to talk to the president about compromise. He’s a millionaire, and he has everything paid for by the taxpayer including his security. And then she needs to call her colleagues in the US Senate and talk to them about compromise. Our military members cannot afford to go without their paychecks, and it will be on the president’s head if they do.


6 posted on 04/07/2011 12:01:02 PM PDT by petitfour (Are you a Dead Fish American?)
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To: mandaladon

She needs to give up drugs.


7 posted on 04/07/2011 12:01:49 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: mandaladon
“I have to tell you that I live paycheck-to-paycheck, like most Americans,” Sánchez said.

Actually, dumbass, I think most Americans are smarter than that.

8 posted on 04/07/2011 12:02:58 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: mandaladon

My heart bleeds.

Meanwhile your colleagues are doing fundraisers and going shopping.

You lib politicians can go to hell.


9 posted on 04/07/2011 12:03:09 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: mandaladon

“Linda, trade in that 8mpg gas guzzler and stop complaining.

Your Pal,

Zer0”


10 posted on 04/07/2011 12:05:07 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: mandaladon
CRY RIVER
11 posted on 04/07/2011 12:06:34 PM PDT by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: mandaladon

I guess she thinks Federal employees (the vast majority who make less than her $174K per year salary) can afford to go without their paychecks.


12 posted on 04/07/2011 12:06:55 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (0bama, proof we can no longer underestimate the stupidity of the voters.)
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To: mandaladon
"Please have a heart. Can you spare any change. The Gov't is shutting down and I won't be able to stretch my $180K House Rep salary plus benefits."


13 posted on 04/07/2011 12:07:24 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: petitfour

1.6 million uniformed military personnel exempt from a shutdown per paragraph 4 at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110224/ap_on_re_us/us_what_shutdown


14 posted on 04/07/2011 12:10:00 PM PDT by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war)
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To: mandaladon

Here’s the thing, Linda. I don’t give a s—t.


15 posted on 04/07/2011 12:10:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), 39 and single, is pregnant

Sanchez and her boyfriend of a year and half, Jim Sullivan, a public relations consultant, are “unofficially engaged.” The baby is due May 21.

Sánchez was born in Orange, California and grew up with six siblings, raised by Mexican immigrant parents in Anaheim. She earned her BA in Spanish in 1991 at the University of California, Berkeley and her Juris Doctor degree in 1995 at the UCLA School of Law, where she was an editor of the Chicano-Latino Law Review.

Sánchez was an attorney specializing in labor law prior to her public service career. In 1998, she joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 441 and became a compliance officer. In 2000 she was unanimously elected to the position of Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Orange County Central Labor Council.

After the Arizona State Legislature passed State Senate Bill 1070 and after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed it into law, Linda Sanchez generated controversy when she claimed that the law, and similar laws throughout the United States, were the product of white supremacists: “There’s a concerted effort behind promoting these kinds of laws on a state-by-state basis by people who have ties to white supremacy groups. It’s been documented. It’s not mainstream politics.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/11/20/PH2008112001613.jpg

Sánchez is married to Jim Sullivan, whom she married on April 13, 2009, in the district office of Congressman John B. Larson, who introduced the two about two years prior to the wedding. The marriage is the second for Sanchez, and Sullivan has three children from a previous marriage. On May 13, 2009, she became the 8th woman to have given birth while serving in Congress when she gave birth to her first son, Joaquin Sánchez Sullivan.

Here sister Loretta Sanchez is also in congress...

http://totalbuzz.ocregister.com/files/2009/10/sanchezsister2.jpg


16 posted on 04/07/2011 12:13:18 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Terry Mross

DITTO


17 posted on 04/07/2011 12:13:55 PM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: mandaladon

The government will only shut down for as long as it takes Congress to agree on a budget. She will still get a paycheck; it will just be late.

In union-speak, this is known as a strike. I thought Democrats would understand that concept.

Strike slogans anyone?


18 posted on 04/07/2011 12:14:45 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Evil Slayer
1.6 million uniformed military personnel exempt from a shutdown per paragraph 4 at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110224/ap_on_re_us/us_what_shutdown

Article says troops will remain at their posts. This is true. Doesn't mean they'll get paid.

19 posted on 04/07/2011 12:15:02 PM PDT by Gena Bukin
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To: synbad600

She’s obviously living outside her means.

Maybe she has a huge babysitting bill to pay each month as she attends all those DC parties, don’t you know.


20 posted on 04/07/2011 12:15:14 PM PDT by Bitsy ( i)
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