General Assembly: No raise for us this year

Apparently state legislators were due to get a raise.

But the General Assembly's legislative services committee, meeting in Athens today as part of a couple days get together for legislators, voted this morning to suspend the raise members were due.

The idea, of course, was that it would look bad to take a raise now, when other parts of the budget are being cut, and most state employee raises are being withheld.

"We're all in this together," said Marshall Guest, spokesman for Speaker of the House Glenn Richardson, who introduced the measure this morning.