Those websites must cost a ton!!

Who and where is she calling? You get unlimited with Sprint for $99 a month now. Wonder if some non 1800 numbers were being called.

Let's get moving here!

Come on Wally. How can you expect someone to live on $38,000 a year in the NY Metro area... Supplementary salary exists all the time in politics. Stop making something out of nothing.

I'm with you: staffers work extraordinary hours, face immense frustrations, and get paid very poorly for their important work.

I'm probably in the minority here, but I actually believe both state senators and assemblymen/women should get paid better as well. Many keep a second a second job on the side, which can distract them.

Cohen didn't take withholding tax out. He treated his aide like a 1099 Independent Contractor. The problem is, and Cohen being an attorney knew this but ignored it, is that Givens was an employee of the campaign. She did not have a business name and probably Cohen was her only "client." Cohen's campaign cheated the IRS out of withholding tax payments.

This is typical of liberals who demand everyone else pay more taxes and then cheat the government on their own end. Cohen deserves to be investigated for failure to pay withholding tax, and Givens needs to get ready for an IRS audit.

Current legislator staffers drawing expenses from political accounts is something that should have been banned long ago.

Its absolutely a conflict of interest.

If current staffers can't work on political campaigns, how can they draw political campaign salaries too? I just don't get it.

"There is nothing out of the ordinary about legislative staffers drawing down paychecks from both the government and from campaign committees." I am sorry, but it seems to me that it is illegal in NJ. I might be stupid though.

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.