Summary
Listen up, citizens: Today's civics lesson has three parts: How your campaign donations are being spent; how your money pales in relation to bigtime influence peddlers; and how your state legislators justify trips to hair salons, the Taj Majal and memberships in health clubs.
We'll also discuss "junkets" and "slush funds." And we'll explore how money talks - shouts, actually - in Sacramento.See the full content of this document
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Junkets and Slush Funds
California legislators are the highest paid in the nation. In addition to their $116,000 annual salaries, they're paid $170 a day when the Legislature is in session, wh...
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