LA legislators gives 300% pay raise to themselves.

Well first it was a $50,000 raise but it’s been reduced somewhat to 37,500

The odd thing is that governor campaigned on this saying he would get rid of this and said he would not take any action to prevent it, but doesn’t agree with it. I’m kind of mixed on this because his reasoning for this is that he wants to keep the powers seperate, but it looks to me be more like “I scratch your back, hopefully you return the favor.”

I think it’s also like watching someone getting mugged and saying “Well, I’m not going to do anything about this, although I disagree with it. But if he does take your money, I will try to stop him from doing anything with it, how does that sound?” Also, they seem to think they are doing a good job, because they made our state the first state with an official State Cocktail.

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I just wanted to bump this so people see how ridiculous my state is.

It would be even more ridiculous if these are the same legislators that condemn CEOs for being paid so much.