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  • Howie Carr: Massachusetts House leadership gets huge payoffs with their inflated titles

    13 days ago - By Boston Herald

    I hope that if new Auditor Diana DiZoglio does get to audit the legislature, she will take a long hard look at the proliferation of phony-baloney jobs in “leadership,” and the huge payoffs that come with the absurdly inflated titles.
    It's not as out-of-control as what's been going on at the University of Massachusetts. But then, there are only 200 solons who must be paid off on Beacon Hill.
    Base pay now for legislators is $73,655 (plus the travel allowances of $15,000-20,0000). But only the most hopeless lames subsist on the minimum.
    Just about every hack is getting bonus money for their...
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