Last April, Washington state legislators decided that they were not being paid enough for the roughly 90 days per year they spend in Olympia, the capital. They accordingly voted themselves a 193% salary increase−from $3,600 to $10,560. At the same time, they raised the Governor's pay from $32,500 to $47,300, the Lieutenant Governor's from $10,000 to $22,000, and the state attorney general's from $23,000 to $37,950. A number of other salaries were also raised, the total increases amounting to $1,359,059 annually.
The bill struck a nerve of Naderian outrage in a Seattle furniture salesman named Bruce Helm, 32. When the state supreme...
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