http://newmexicoindependent.com/438/leaner-special-session New Mexico news and politics Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://newmexicoindependent.com/438/leaner-special-session#comment-448 hemingway Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.121.217/?p=438#comment-448 If the special session is so important to Governor Richardson why is traveling to Illinois and California. He should be in his Fourth Floor office. This is crazy. I guess the VP job is more important. If I was a state legislator I would be real upset and say NO to a special session!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If the special session is so important to Governor Richardson why is traveling to Illinois and California. He should be in his Fourth Floor office. This is crazy. I guess the VP job is more important. If I was a state legislator I would be real upset and say NO to a special session!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> http://newmexicoindependent.com/438/leaner-special-session#comment-449 hemingway Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.121.217/?p=438#comment-449 Our state legislators need a salary. We are the only state in the whole country that does not give a salary to its state legislators. New Mexico is in the dark ages! Here is the salary for legislators from nearby states: Arizona - $24,000; Texas - $7,200; Colorado - $30,000; Oklahoma - $$38,400; Nevada - $137.90 per day. This is a disgrace. If we have a session we should approve some salary so we can get competent legislators that do not cater to lobbyists for under the table money. Let's reform now! Our state legislators need a salary. We are the only state in the whole country that does not give a salary to its state legislators. New Mexico is in the dark ages! Here is the salary for legislators from nearby states: Arizona – $24,000; Texas – $7,200; Colorado – $30,000; Oklahoma – $$38,400; Nevada – $137.90 per day. This is a disgrace. If we have a session we should approve some salary so we can get competent legislators that do not cater to lobbyists for under the table money. Let’s reform now!

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