Salary commission likely ignored again
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
It's hard to imagine a group more useless than the Missouri Citizens' Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials. The group was created in 1994 when Missouri voters thought it would be a good idea to turn over the sticky issue of lawmakers raising their own salaries. The commission was designed to meet, discuss the need for salary review for many Missouri elected officials and then to make those recommendations to the Legislature which holds the ultimate power of approval.