Kathy Sands

April 22, 2008 - 11:45am

State legislators face salary freeze, cuts

A state commission said today that it is exploring the possibility of freezing and possibly reducing the salaries of California elected officials, the Sacramento Bee is reporting.

California Compensation Commission Chairmen Charles Murray and member Kathy Sands, citing the state’s $7 billion deficit, said they would meet again in May or June to decide on a salary cut for state legislators.

"We have a deficit of $7 billion" that news reports say will double by this summer,” said Murray, according to the paper. "Everybody has to take a cut."

The AP, in its write-up of the event, notes Murray as saying that a salary scale-back would be the first of the Commission’s kind since its formation in 1990.

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