Posted on 05/20/2009 8:21:44 PM PDT by South40
BURBANK, Calif. — A commission has voted to cut future salaries of California lawmakers and other state elected officials by 18 percent, a day after voters offered their own rebuke.
The action by the California Citizens Compensation Commission will have no immediate effect. It comes three weeks after the panel deadlocked over whether to cut salaries by 10 percent, in part because several positions were unfilled. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger filled those vacancies immediately afterward, setting the stage for Wednesday's 5-1 vote.
The commission is prohibited from cutting officials' pay in midterm, meaning current lawmakers and elected officials will maintain their salaries through at least December 2010.
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FYI, there were three other articles posted on this (LATimes twice and the Sac Bee) which probably
explains why no one commented:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/callegislature/index
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