California Assembly leaders hand out staff raises: 136 staffers increases totaling $551,000

The L.A. Times reports:

State Assembly leaders have given pay raises totaling $551,000 to 136 staff members, even as tens of thousands of other state workers have had their salaries cut and California remains awash in red ink.

Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) said she awarded about $350,000 in merit increases averaging 5% to about 80 legislative employees serving members of her party.

Your tax increases are their pay raises.Remember that.