Congressman Duffy Tells Constituents He is 'Struggling' On $174K Salary

[undeterred]

Published : Wednesday, 30 Mar 2011, 10:14 AM CDT

(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - A congressman from Wisconsin told residents last month that he isn't "living high on the hog" on his $174,000 salary, drawing wrath in a state locked in a dispute about public employee wages and benefits.

Talking Points Memo reported that Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., recently faced a question at a town meeting about whether he would cut his salary. He said he would support cutting compensation for all public employees but hedged, saying it isn't much for his family of seven to live on.

The question, as reported by the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel , came from a builder who had to start working as a bus driver when construction began drying up. His wife, a schoolteacher, would be taking a pay cut under a new budget plan proposed by Wis. Gov. Scott Walker.

Duffy answered that he has six children and went for about seven months with no pay when he left his job as Ashland County district attorney while campaigning in 2010.

He said he cut his congressional office budget but that he didn't vote on his own salary because it had already been voted upon before he took office. He said his federal health care and pension benefits are not as good as when he worked for the state of Wisconsin.

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpps/news/rep-sean-duffy-struggling-on-174k-salary-dpgoha-20110330-fc_12548714

:shrug: Maybe he should become a lobbyist.

[Blacksheep214]

1. Maybe he should go hunting with Cheney!

That money could hire 4 to 5 teachers which could teach this douche NOT to go hunting with Cheney!

Where did these pukes go to school?

[Hokahey]

2. In case you want to help our downtrodden congressman...

http://d21971ua898zk6.cloudfront.net/39/5a/e/789/poorseanduffy.pdf

[ewagner]

3. He will be a lobbyist in about 1-1/2 years

after we vote his sorry (self) out of office and put a real progressive in the 7th District

[undeterred]

4. I don't doubt it at all.

And I also don't doubt that it isn't easy to support 8 people plus pay a mortgage and some debts on one income. But it really shows his inexperience to put that comment out there as a congressman in this kind of economy where so many people are struggling to survive on so much less than that.

[dragonlady]

5. And he wasn't drafted into this job

He volunteered.

:hi:

[midnight]

6. And he help Scott Walker pass a bill that stripped workers rights to bargain for a income

that is far less than his....

[undeterred]

7. Yes he did.

:hi:

...and if he really thought this through, he'd change parties.

[ewagner]

8. In Ashland...

I was a "high-paid" staff member for the City in 1975....lived on the princely salary of $19,000 per year...in Ashland that was ROYALTY!

My beautiful, adopted home of Chequamegon Bay is one of the most economically depressed areas in the state and the folks up there are clawing their way back through tourism....prices of housing up there are dirt cheap...food and gas are about the same as the rest of Wisconsin but unless you're trying to keep up with the yuppies from St Paul who use the area as their playground, it's pretty easy to live on a modest (25-35K ) income up there...

and incredibly rewarding to live among those folks too...