Merry Christmas, New York taxpayer.
You will be funding a $32,000 yearly pay raise for legislators if a pair of Democratic-sponsored bills pass the Assembly and Senate on Thursday, giving New York lawmakers the highest salary among state legislators in the nation.
“I can’t believe this is actually happening,” Ortt told the Washington Examiner. “We woke up to this on Tuesday morning, the bill was live. There were rumors about this, but we had no communication from Democrats. Then they want us to show up 48 hours later [to vote] — two days before Christmas.” “Personally, I believe that legislators need to be compensated for the hard work that they do,” Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said. “People don’t realize the sacrifice that they make, being away from their families.”
“They see no value in the citizen legislature, someone who is a regular person like a doctor or a lawyer and takes that experience in the real world to make the state better,” Ortt said. “This breeds a ruling class of politicians.”
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