Most of the time, the only embarrassments were the high paid administrators, directors, or legislative staff. Regular teachers, fire fighters, office workers, and police have pretty standard pay scales and make less than their counterparts in local businesses.
For example, my wife has five college degrees (three were not education degrees) and has been teaching 35 years. She makes about the same as new college graduates in "business" or "engineering" or "health" professions.
Here, the right-wing groups manipulate the salaries they publish - for example, our GOP legislatures were paying a young college cheerleader about $100,000 to organize their travel and arrange entertainment (not sure if the wives were aware of the trips, but it seems like some rendezvous trips were secret!). She was NOT on the rightwing list, but the members of local unions were always on the list (usually with inflated salaries or mistakes in the publications). After some salaries were published, reporters started investigating and it turned out to be more of a problem for the righties than they bargained for...
It's just propaganda, and I think the general public doesn't pay too much attention to those reports from what we can see here. They don't appear to affect most voters.
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