No wonder the party wanted the video censored. How embarrassing that Wisconsin allows it’s politicians live with such poverty wages.
First the Republican Party in Polk County, Wisconsin, pulled the tape of Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) fretting about making ends meet on his $174,000 a year salary from its own website. Now they want it gone from the whole Internet. For a couple hours, the local county GOP was successful. But we’ve put an excerpt of the video back up.
A day after TPM posted the video we obtained of Duffy talking about his salary at a Polk County town hall meeting earlier this year, the Polk County GOP contacted the video provider we used to host the video, Blip.tv, and demanded the video be taken down.
The tape caused a stir for Duffy, a first-term conservative best known for his past as a reality TV show star on MTV’s The Real World. Democrats flagged the comments about his taxpayer-funded salary (which is nearly three times the median income in Wisconsin) and criticisms began to flow Duffy’s way.
In the clip, Duffy is asked whether he’d support cutting his own salary. Duffy says he would, but only as part of a plan where all public employees’ salaries would be cut. He then said that the $174,000 in salary (not including benefits) he receives is a squeeze for his family of seven to live on:
Does the Congressman qualify for health care subsidies?
He’s not whining half as much as he will be when the poor toss him onto a grill and start slathering him with barbecue sauce. It’s comin’, richboys!
Does Congress keep getting a paycheck if the government has to shut down? Supposed to be only essential services will be funded. Can’t imagine that includes the House of Representors.
I wasn’t coming after you Aminby. I was just amazed by the fact you provided.
This double-standard is not new.
Remember, during the tax debate, how the GOP were telling us that $500,000 or even a $million was not rich?
So, after the millionaires get their desperately needed tax cut, the GOP start telling us that cops and teachers are are a bunch of greedy bastards, living high off the hog.