Cavala: Should the Legislature Be Tanked Because 15% Of Their Staff Obtain Raises And Others Get “Plumb Jobs” as Lobbyists?

Comrade Cavala, sometimes you are a joy!

Your lamenting that the story in the Bee was NOT about the 85% of staffers who did NOT get raises?

I thought the state budget, excessive spending and the possibility of new/higher taxes or "fees" was the number one issue today. Wouldn't you think another government entity getting a RAISE under these conditions would be a story?

You neglected to mention the raise in the legislators per diem they just got...nor their recent raises in salary either in the past year or so.

Nor the fact that "termed out" democrat legislature politicians Carole Migden, John Laird and Sheila Kuehl were appointed (more like annointed) to the Waste Management Board, which only works 4 days a month! Plus their old annual legislature salary of $116,000 is now plussed up to $135,000!!!

You have UC college administrator fat cats and professors getting exorbitant pay yet they cry about potential enrollment cuts and/or increased student tuition...

Where is the LEADERSHIP, the SETTING OF THE EXAMPLE of sacrifice and shared burden by our legislature??? Our campus leaders? Their lack thereof is the real outrage here which is why staffer/government employee raises are looked upon in a similar light to the failures and poor example of governmet leaders.

Comrade, perhaps your defense of the 85$ of the staffers who didn't get raises, which isn't the real story here, needs to be focused on the above abusers/poor examples of taxpayer paid "leadership".

I agree with you completely Jay Gould. I guess they didn't like my comment from this morning or it got lost in cyber space. But you said it better anyway.

Thanks Morris1. I suggest you try again!

The problem with both left and right, but so blatantly with the left is they don't be honest with THEMSELVES as well as pick on the opposition.

Government approved raises in an alleged time of economic turmoil? I say "alleged" as if it was really serious, where is the serious leadership? The dems say it is the repubs fault there is no budget yet they set ZERO or even a NEGATIVE example of economic or legislative leadership as addressed already.

Is global warming a serious problem? If Al Gore the high priest of global warming can justify the carbon emissions of flying around in a private jet or not conserving in his 42 room home for two persons, where is the REAL problem here? Same goes for Arnold and his jet & Hummer...

(Funny, only the left would pick on Arnold here yet Gore does the SAME thing and the left is silent! More later.)

Buying carbon offsets? Give me a break! First, Gore OWNS an offset "business" plus obviously he and Arnold can afford a little extra without breaking a sweat. John Q. Public doesn't have it so easy, nor does his businesses or employees.

Besides, where is the logic? If ANY carbon emission is "bad", then why do ANY? Or why not try to ease the overall burden on the planet that others allegedly are placing on it. (Again, lead by example!)

Buying carbon neutrality is a way for the Left or left leaning rich to feel good about themselves and their excessive lifesyles and they both can afford it and do buy it... it is a LUXURY not many can afford; bought for piece of mind.

I think in the main the left has party loyalty/ideology in lockstep to a fault. If they cannot see their own hypocricy and SAY IT too, they are fooling themselves for some temporary state of "feeling good" about themselves.

Bush screwed up Iraq in many ways. It is easy to say, right? Yet Harry Reid and Obama both (with our troops engaged in combat I might add)said the war is lost and the surge won't work and both don't, to this day, regret saying those things or take them back or admit they were wrong, take your pick. They "felt good" saying them then and have "moved on" with no intention of looking back...except to bash their political opponents as applicable!

The likes of a Cavala or Cruickshank don't admit to any failures/shortcomings of their party easily, if at all. But they do take their political opponents to task with vigor, often fine, but often embellished. Ok too. But, their protection of the "party elite" and simultaneous exposing of basically one party rule (eliminate the 2/3 vote on budget & taxes, no redistricting, eliminate term limits, who needs campaign finance reform?) is what concerns me. It was already tried a few times and many suffered for it.

Hey, Bobby, you might not have liked my blog item about you, but at least I spelled your name right!

-- Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee

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