Anytime you ask an activists about anything – they’re guaranteed to be outraged.  It’s the only way they get to see their names in print.

No legislative staff member received a bonus in 2007. That could have been the first time that happened in decades. Because the Legislature has been exempt from the state’s open-records law, nobody really knows for sure.But don’t shed any tears for the men and women who work for state legislators. A Harrisburg Patriot-News analysis of the state Senate payroll revealed that 10 percent of 973 staffers earned more than the $76,163 that legislators bring home. And 96 percent of those 973 staff members received raises larger than the 3.5 percent raise that legislators received. “I don’t know of any other profession where an employee makes more than the employer,” activist Eric Epstein said. “It makes you wonder who’s running the train.”

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