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As you know, the state Legislature is currently in special session, the purpose of which is for lawmakers to do the lawmaking they failed to do when they were in regular session. For this, they are paid handsome per diems, because doing the people's work is expensive.
Now you might think the purpose of this special session is to solve our water crisis and improve access to health care. If so, you are wrong. By all indications, little progress is being made on those two fronts. But great progress is being made in the area of giving pay raises to state bureaucrats.
That's right, the Assembly has used this special session to grant a 6 percent pay raise to all its staff. Plus, the politicians have magnanimously agreed to pick up a higher share of these employees' pension costs because, well hey, they're a generous bunch.
The session may be special, but what's going on is more of the same.
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