No cut in pay for state lawmakers

The commission that sets state elected officials' salaries imposed a pay freeze Tuesday, but rejected an attempt to cut most legislators' wages 10 percent to help balance the state budget. AP in the Daily News.

Some commissioners, however, suggested that lawmakers and other elected officials should voluntarily give up some of their pay to help erase the state's red ink.

"We should send a message to our elected (officials) that we are concerned and that we do strongly recommend that they take a pay decrease so they can voluntarily share in this deficit like everyone else," said commissioner Kathy Sands, a former mayor of Auburn.