Pro bono lawmaking: Candidates offer to work free

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Breitbart:

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Some lawmakers want to change state law to bar themselves from getting paid for working extra days when they can't pass the state budget on time.

Republicans say the proposal to work for free during certain special legislative sessions will be a top priority when the state's General Assembly convenes again in January. While they won't have the chance to work on the bill until then, their pro bono offer comes during a crucial stretch of campaigning before November elections.

"It's time we acknowledge that if we don't do our job, we shouldn't get paid," Kentucky House Republican Floor Leader Jeff Hoover said Tuesday.

A handful of Democrats already returned their pay from a special session held in May.

Voters have shown they're fed up with career politicians they blame for out-of-control government spending. That sentiment helped boost Republican Rand Paul over an opponent favored by much of the GOP establishment in Kentucky's U.S. Senate primary over the summer.

Western Kentucky University political scientist Scott Lasley said offering to work for free during a special session isn't a bad political move.

"It taps into the sense that people don't think legislators from the state to the federal levels have done the best of jobs over the last several years," Lasley said. "It taps into that frustration. I think it plays well with voters."
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Now to make sure they mean it...