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King’s opponent says voters "want a servant, not a king"

August 15, 2008 By admin

Steve King The Democrat challenging Republican Congressman Steve King’s reelection is criticizing King for accepting congressional pay hikes.  

Fifth district congressional candidate Rob Hubler of Council Bluffs, a retired minister, says King thinks he’s a king rather than a servant of the people.

"Congressman King has voted every year…to increase his pay $15,000 over the last six years," Hubler told fairgoers. "Now, I don’t know how many of you have had a $15,000 increase in pay over the past six years. Most people have sustained a decrease in wages and a decrease in income."

King says he’s always voted for pay raises for public officials, dating back to when he was a member of the Iowa legislature, and he continued that pattern when he was elected to congress. "If nobody has enough nerve to vote for a pay raise, we’d still be making what the first congress was making instead of the 110th congress and so if I’m not going to vote for a raise, I can’t in good conscience cash the check and I look at that and I think, ‘Well, I can’t afford not to cash the check, so I have to vote for the pay raise,’" King says, "and by the way, I think I’m earning it."

Ron Hubler The first congress met in 1789. It wasn’t until 1815 that members of congress began drawing a salary and it was $1500 a year. King’s congressional salary today is $169,300. "Some of us probably deserved a pay cut, some deserved a pay raise and some deserved to be fired," King says, "and it’s up to the voters to figure out who that is."

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