December 17, 2013 Wry Wing Politics Post

Maybe legislators could authorize some kind of independent Legislative Salary Commission to set salaries.  The Commission could be appointed by the Governor, to insulate legislators from public blame for subsequent salary increases.

May 28, 2013 Star Tribune Editorial

The (constitutional) amendment (about legislative compensation that the 2013 Legislature sent to the 2016 ballot) would hand responsibility for setting legislative pay to a commission — appointed by the governor and chief justice of the Supreme Court — on which no legislator, former legislator, lobbyist or former lobbyist could serve. Appointees would be evenly split between the two largest political parties at the Legislature.  The amendment offers no guarantee of a pay raise. The proposed commission would be as free to cut pay as to increase it.

I’m going to take a nap now.  Being ominpotent can be exhausting.

Loveland