Politics vs principles: Legislators split on pay raise

[TexasTowelie]

Rep. Loranne Ausley said it is among the most difficult decisions she faced in a nine-year legislative career.

“I never thought I would be in this position, (torn) to vote up or down on a pay raise,” the Tallahassee legislator told her colleagues during floor debate on a benefits package for state employees.

“Insulting,” declared Rep. Ramon Alexander, D-Tallahassee, about the $1,400 increase for most state workers tied to changes in their health insurance and pension plans.

Ausley and Alexander voted against a pay raise for more than 22,000 of their Leon, Gadsden, Wakulla neighbors. They argued the proposal for a 3.5 percent pay raise carried far too many long-term risks to the state insurance plan and would undermine the Florida Retirement System’s solvency.

Read more: http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/05/13/politics-vs-principles-tallahassees-divided-legislative-delegation/101600296/

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1. Life is rough, then you die

Of course if you're a politician, you just lay there stinking up the neighborhood as no one will scrape you up and carry you off to be buried. They may give you a whack with the shovel though!