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...universal. California's state legislators have seen fit to spare one group from the draconian reductions: themselves. While the expenditures in real dollars on social services have decreased, the money for the legislature has doubled since 1975 and ballooned by a third this year alone. California's assemblymen and senators spend more on their own care and feeding than lawmakers in any other state...
...appearance sake, the lawmakers have kept their salaries relatively modest: $28,000 a year. The fat-in rich, deep veins-lies elsewhere. Each of the 40 senators and 80 assemblymen gets an addition al $50 a day tax free while the legislature's work is under way: an average of $12,000 apiece this year. Each lawmaker receives a monthly car allowance of $265 plus a gasoline credit card to use without limit. Many collect an extra $6 for custom car washes. There are other travel perquisites: many legislators traveled to Washington at state expense to lobby Congress...
...Matra Simca Bagheera sports model and a Matra Rancho cross-country station wagon. But the new Soviet President was not pleased with the color of the trim on the wagon's seats (tan) and its exterior (green). Mortified French officials rushed the vehicle back to its manufacturer, where assemblymen worked frantically on reupholstery (brown) and a new paint job (blue...
...state and local affiliates have also been successful backing school-board members, city councilmen, state legislators, governors and congressmen. California Teachers Association funds went to all but three of the 54 Democratic state assemblymen elected in 1974, and the CTA is now rated, behind the oil lobby, as the most generous campaign contributor in the state. Indiana's state association is described by politicos there as being aggressive and in the last election helped defeat Congressman Earl Landgrebe, a Republican who had consistently voted against education bills...
...Corps of Engineers. There was no evidence of help from the government anywhere. Not a single Vietnamese official appeared, not a single bag of rice was delivered. Not even the police, who are usually concerned about Viet Cong infiltration into refugee caravans, bothered to show up. The National Assemblymen and local elected leaders, worried by stories that the North Vietnamese were killing civil servants in the towns they occupied, were busy saving themselves and their families. The mayor of Danang, an ARVN colonel, one night declared to a friend his passionate intention of remaining with his people; the next...