Grabbing A Big Pay Raise AND A Personal (Campaign) Slush Fund

ON TOP OF A MASSIVE PAY RAISE, THEY NOW WANT TO BE ABLE TO SPEND CAMPAIGN FUNDS ON PERSONAL EXPENSES

THE WATCHMAN

We have always known that politics has always been a dirty business. If you ever wanted to know what was happening all you needed to do was follow the money. There was a time when influence was bought by corporations using their own money but now, here in Oklahoma, they have found a way to use the taxpayer's money to buy that influence. We honestly thought things could not get much worse, and thankfully, for this year anyway, they did not.

HAVE THEY NO SHAME?

IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC AND BUDGET CRISIS THE LEGISLATURE GIVES THEMSELVES

A HUNORMOUS PAY RAISE

HAVE THEY NO SHAME?

THE WATCHMAN

Many people in this nation feel that politicians turn a death ear to those they are supposed to serve. Politicians in turn do not understand why their constituents are not pleased with their performance. Those of us who study politics wonder why if people are so unhappy about their performance why they keep voting for them. What is particularly troubling is when they allow something to happen during a fiscal shortfall and claim there was nothing, they could do to stop it. The only people they are fooling are themselves.

What brought our attention to this story was this article from News Channel 9. Now here we are in the middle of a pandemic, thousands of people unemployed, scraping to get buy and our alleged leaders who are supposed to work for us are giving themselves a 35% pay raise. Have they earned it, not in our book. Do they deserve it? No way in hell. Could it have been stopped? Yes, if they had wanted to. If there was ever a reason to vote people out of office this is it. It appears that they feel that just because tax revenue is down, and the state's budget has been cut that they deserve a pay raise.