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Friday, January 17, 2003  

Painful irony or simply cruel?

Sacramento -- While it contemplates cutting free lunches for the elderly and slashing services for the blind and disabled, the Legislature has recommended boosting its own budget by $8 million to pay for its cars, salaries and catered meals.

The state budget plan released last week calls for increases in funding for running the Legislature to $206 million, including salaries for 120 lawmakers and their staffs. It's one of the few divisions of state government earmarked for an increase in Gov. Gray Davis' 2003-04 budget proposal.

The $226,000 requested by the Legislature for catered meals would cover about 40 percent of a statewide senior lunch program that Davis wants to eliminate in the budget he presented to the Legislature.

Story here.

posted by skobJohn | 12:49 PM |
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