In the middle of Garrett talking to reporters, Senate President Emil Jones Jr., a Chicago Democrat who supports the raises, walked past and loudly quipped that he needed to get some food stamps.
So just a year after a 10% raise and a $750M budget deficit, they think they need more. Hendon, who chairs the committee the bill goes through, won't even let it come up for a vote but has the gall to blame everyone else:
"They want to use the Senate and pimp us, and they keep taking the money," Hendon said of the House.
At least one Senator gets it:
"Let me just say that some of the legislators have missed the point if they think that they need the raise because they're not making $150,000 a year," Garrett said. "We are here as public servants. We're not here to assume that we should be entitled to be receiving major increases every year when the rest of the state and other state employees are suffering."
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