Plus, they get paid next to nothing for their role in the legislature, and being missing from the special session costs $500/day.
They incurred a personal bill of, what is it, $7,000?
There are times when I feel like I’m making more money than a lot of these folks do, and I can’t afford that.
Their salary is $7200. It hasn’t changed in the 26 years I’ve lived there.
That gives an unfriendly Aesop that the only people who can afford to be Texas legislators are the independently wealthy and folks engaging in corruption.
Low pay for congresspeople and staff is like the express train for corruption.
But tell the GOP to pay corpo wages and they get all stingy
