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DMala t1_j29tkr8 wrote

Reply to comment by br41nLESS in Top state officials, including governor, set to receive a 20 percent pay hike, the largest in years by SomethingDrastic

Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s going to work. The real barrier for politics is the cost of the campaign you have to run to get in. Even prior to the raise, the salaries for most high level elected positions would be pretty livable for the average MA resident.

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[deleted] t1_j2ajz6q wrote

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rpv123 t1_j2awkbl wrote

Same. I was a former public school teacher, served on a city board, was working at a nonprofit doing great work locally in education, and was starting to build a resume looking towards an eventual run for school board and possibly, one day, city council. Then a relative joined their local school board in 2020 and I became friends with someone who served on our school board and I knixed the plan entirely. It’s not worth death threats to my family, even if I did feel like I would have been an asset.

Then, I switched nonprofits and my coworkers got death threats because, of course, no good deed goes unpunished in this political hellscape.

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The_Big_Sad_69420 t1_j2aqkrs wrote

that's horrifying. Especially when it's someone from the grassroots who's actually going into politics to make a change for themselves & people around them

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