Proposition 61: Salary Limits
Your editorial (Oct. 5), “Proposition 61: Bad Medicine,” is full of “weasel” wording. Along with your “ might be as low as” and your “ could run as high as,” you forgot to mention two very important aspects of Proposition 61--the salary limit for the governor and other elected officials can be raised by a vote of the people and the $64,000 limit can be raised by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature.
This, of course, would make all raises a matter of record. What’s wrong with that? We taxpayers (employers) should have some control over the salaries of our employees.
If this measure passes and is implemented properly by our persons of “experience and integrity,” it stands a good chance of bringing a degree of equity into state government and into the education system.
And for your information, the voting public is not as “stingy” as you imply.
If the legislative analysts’s figure of $7 billion needed to buy back all the accumulated vacation and sick leave is true, this is a debt the state would have to pay eventually anyway. Paul Gann is giving us the answer; he did not create the problem.
JEAN M. BALDWIN
El Segundo
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