Bill would get citizen input on pay

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on March 5, 2009 - 3:40pm.
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Dan ClodfelterAnother bill would ask a citizens' panel how much to pay legislators.

Sen. Dan Clodfelter, a Mecklenburg County Democrat, said he filed the bill to get better advice on how to pay lawmakers as well as judges and members of the governor's administration.

Under the bill, a Citizens Commission on Compensation would be created. Thirteen members, a majority, would be chosen randomly from registered voters in each Congressional district.

Another 12 members would be appointed by the speaker of the House, the Senate president pro tem, the governor and the chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court.

"The concept of the bill is to take the process out of just the hands of the elected officials themselves," he said. 

The commission's annual reports would still have to be adopted by legislators, however.

Previously: Bill would automatically raise legislative pay; other states pay less; pay affects who serves in legislature.

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Re: Bill would get citizen input on pay

Submitted by FFC1304 on March 8, 2009 - 8:23pm.

oh, he's a Jim Black variety fer sure...

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Re: Bill would get citizen input on pay

Submitted by robdarich on March 5, 2009 - 4:19pm.

So the chosen few are going to choose a few so it doesn't seem that the few are making choices? That's weird. The "one off" majority sounds almost plausible, except for the "randomly" selected part of it.

Why not propose nothing? That's more than "less", which is what a randomly selected group of people would likely be experiencing due, in part, to the performance of the state's legislators.

And Sen. Clodfelter, please state your campaign expenditures for the last election so people don't have to take time to look it up when trying to qualify how much stake to put into what an elected official says. Mechlenburg County huh? are you a Jim Black kinda guy, or do you aspire to a more elevated sense of public service, perhaps a Lawrence Cobb type?

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