FOX31 catches Joe Stengel
I just watched FOX 31's big expose on the salaries of Colorado lawmakers. Actually, it was more like two stories bundled together. One that turned out to be hype. And one that made me giggle like a schoolgirl.
Story #1: In Colorado, lawmakers earn $30,000 a year. (That's just enough to eat at Taco Bell and sleep at one of those motels on Santa Fe with the fluorescent signage.) But a little-known law allows them to take a per diem to defray the cost of driving into Denver, parking, eating downtown and so forth. Most of the lawmakers take their per diem.
Yawn. Let's move on.
Story #2: Last year, Republican HD38 Representative Joe Stengel effectively doubled his salary by taking 391 days of per diem. (That's not a typo. Yes, I know how many days there are in a year.) In addition, Stengel claimed he worked every day last year - including Christmas, Groundhog Day, and every single day in National Nurse's Week.
Stengel is term-limited in 2006. But perhaps we can get rid of him even sooner.
There is a Democratic candidate running for HD38. Normally I'd find some clever way to work him into the story. But it's late, so I'll just do the overt-plug thing: His name is Joe Rice and you can find his website at votejoerice.com.
Story #1: In Colorado, lawmakers earn $30,000 a year. (That's just enough to eat at Taco Bell and sleep at one of those motels on Santa Fe with the fluorescent signage.) But a little-known law allows them to take a per diem to defray the cost of driving into Denver, parking, eating downtown and so forth. Most of the lawmakers take their per diem.
Yawn. Let's move on.
Story #2: Last year, Republican HD38 Representative Joe Stengel effectively doubled his salary by taking 391 days of per diem. (That's not a typo. Yes, I know how many days there are in a year.) In addition, Stengel claimed he worked every day last year - including Christmas, Groundhog Day, and every single day in National Nurse's Week.
Stengel is term-limited in 2006. But perhaps we can get rid of him even sooner.
There is a Democratic candidate running for HD38. Normally I'd find some clever way to work him into the story. But it's late, so I'll just do the overt-plug thing: His name is Joe Rice and you can find his website at votejoerice.com.
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He also claimed he worked while he took the bar exam. He probably uses that as his excuse for flunking.
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