Prosecutors' pay cut caught in controversy
E-mails allege pressure
February 24. 2010 | by Nick Budnick | bendbulletin.com
SALEM — Last July, Deschutes County District Attorney Mike Dugan learned that he and Oregon's other elected top prosecutors had each lost about $5,000 pay. Not only that, but his own wife, Rep. Judy Stiegler, D-Bend, had, like other lawmakers, voted for the bill that slashed his salary in the final days of the 2009 legislative session — not knowing it would hit the elected DAs personally.
For many district attorneys, $5,000 is almost a month's paycheck. And that sum, it turns out, is enough to affect how a public debate plays out at the Capitol. >>>Read More
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