PAUL HAMMEL
A New Pitch for Increasing Pay for State Legislators
The old joke around the State Capitol is that legislators get paid “$12,000 a year and all you can eat and drink.”
That is a reference to all the free meals – and, OK, maybe a drink or two – dispensed at the almost daily events hosted by lobbying groups during legislative sessions.
But in reality, it’s no laughing matter that state senators in Nebr…