Taking a couple of mail pieces off the table for a future campaign no doubt.  What’s more interesting – is that this is not the first time raises have been declined.  From the Montgomery Advertiser:

A majority of state senators and Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. have rejected their 3.8 percent pay raise this year, but few turned down the more than 60 percent raise lawmakers ap­proved for themselves in 2007.

Twenty-three of the 32 cur­rent members of the Senate — Democrats and Republicans — declined the cost-of-living raise this year, and many of those who are accepting it are giving the money to charities in their districts.

But only four of those sena­tors have declined the pay raise the past three years, Re­publicans Ben Brooks of Mo­bile, Hank Erwin of Mon­tevallo, Del Marsh of Anniston and Harri Anne Smith of Slocomb.

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