Perks

Next time Rep. Stephen Nass (R-Whitewater) is complaining about the perks the UW professors get, he may want to take a look at this list of perks for legislators at the Playground Politics blog.

From Playground Politics:

Legislators are given laptop computers for use by the Legislature. They can connect to the state's network from those computers while at home. They can establish a phone line at their residence for legislative work and bill it to the state. They can also bill a cell phone to the state provided it's used for legislative business.

You can find the rest here. And s/he didn't even mention the extra special tax break leggies have created for themselves or mileage reimbursements.

And by the way, Nass billed the state taxpayers over $10,000 in per diems last year! This amount puts him pretty far up in the pack of Assembly folks. Seems if he was so concerned about state expenses and perks, he might follow the lead of some of his other colleagues and bill the lower amount that goes to Dane County legislators even though they don't live in Dane County.