Reply #20: Your first paragraph gets at the crux of the issue as it pertains to Hillary. [View All]

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"The current wording is perfectly clear enough in it's intent. No having legislators pass pay raises for a position they expect to be shortly occupying so they can make a quick buck for themselves. It's a conflict of interest concern."


When she voted to raise the SoS' salary, I highly doubt that she was expecting to be named SoS in the future POTUS' administration in 2008/2009. Hillary had her eye on either a POTUS or VP position and thus, there would have been no conflict. Thus, to me, she had never intended years ago to benefit from such a small salary raise.

That is, unless one is willing to truly believe that Hillary had this great foresight back then that she would be named SoS and wanted that extra 2.5% salary increase (4700 / 186600).