Take Legislators' Pay For Good, Says Guv
Governor Schwarzenegger may have just latched on to an idea for an amendment to the state Constitution that would probably be the easiest to pass in history: no legislative pay for a late budget, and no payback of missed pay... forever.
The governor's late afternoon news conference included a swipe at legislators who are retroactively paid after a budget is enacted (both they and their staffers are not paid during budget impasses).
"They shouldn't get paid, and they should never make that money back," said Schwarzenegger. "We've got to have consequences."
I've heard lots of citizens grumble the same thing over the last few weeks; and if anyone could raise the money to qualify an initiative on the issue and win, it would probably be the guv.
