California lawmakers rack up gasoline tabs

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

While Gov. Jerry Brown struggles to erase $25 billion in red ink from the state budget by slashing everything from cell phones to staff, California lawmakers routinely rack up thousands of dollars in bills annually with a political perk unique in the country - no-limit, state-issued gasoline credit cards.

Last year, California taxpayers footed the bill for those legislative gas credit cards - $208,862 for the 80-member Assembly and $86,762 for the 40-member state Senate, according to documents requested by The Chronicle through the state's open records laws.

Overpaid government workers.