by Karl Kurtz
Regular readers of The Thicket will have noticed that the same poll regarding special pay for committee chairs has been up at the top of the right column of the page for months--since Feb. 8, to be exact, when Tim Storey posted "Should Committee Chairs Get Paid More?". The results of that poll showed that The Thicket readers overwhelmingly think that all legislators in a state should receive the same pay. In response to the question, "Who in the legislature should get more pay?", 304 readers (72 percent) chose "No one--all legislators should be paid the same," 85 (20 percent) said that committee chairs and leaders should receive premium pay, and 34 (8 percent) chose leaders only (not committee chairs).
We have had something of a purist notion about our polls: we want them to relate somehow to a posting. There were only two things wrong with that concept. First, we have had difficulty coming up with good poll questions, as witness the long run for the most recent poll (readers have come up to us at meetings and said, "Change the poll for heaven's sake!"). Second, once we post a relevant poll, because its position is static in the right column and the postings move downward as new items appear, the two are soon separated from each other.
Therefore, we have decided to ditch the poll in the right column and instead to embed it in the relevant postings. Like this:
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