Career politician Elizabeth Coggs (what happened to the Coggs-Jones?), who apparently has never had a real job, is crying about the compensation at her part-time job… Milwaukee County Supervisor. I’m not kidding… These are part-time jobs. And for her part-time work, Coggs gets $50,769.<\/p>\n
But she doesn’t think that’s enough. Supervisors froze their own pay until 2012, but now Coggs wants to renege on that by sneaking in a $3,600 a year transportation allowance. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:<\/a><\/p>\n She drives a lot in her work as a supervisor and paying for gas has become \u201ca pretty expensive hardship.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Really? So taxpayers who are enduring the hardship of higher gas prices should have to dig even deeper into their pockets for Elizabeth? I don’t think so!<\/p>\n She’s upset because city aldermen make more than her at $73,222, and they get an auto allowance. I’m all in favor of giving aldemen a cut so they can be equal!<\/p>\n And get this quote from Coggs:<\/p>\n \u201cEver since that pension deal, we have just been kicking ourselves in the behind,\u201d Coggs said. \u201cWe cut everything, we close everything . . . It\u2019s not that we want to be abusive\u201d by seeking additional pay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sorry. The Milwaukee County Supervisors voted for the pension deal, and now they have to live with the consequences. If taxpayers have to suffer with it, they should have to suffer double.<\/p>\n