Missouri Lt. Gov says his $86,000 salary has left him 'impoverished,' requests daily allowance

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Missouri Lt. Gov says his $86,000 salary has left him 'impoverished,' requests daily allowance
by Jen Hayden

Fiscally conservative (cough, cough) Missouri Lt. Governor Pete "Pantless Party Lovin'" Kinder has made a special plea for a new allowance:

He receives an annual salary of about $86,000. But Kinder says he's experienced "gradual impoverishment" during his decade in office.

His salary is less than other statewide executive officials, but well more than the $36,000 that legislators receive.

One of the lieutenant governor's duties is to preside over the Senate. Kinder wants to receive the same allowance that legislators get, which is $103 a day. He's seeking a per diem whenever he's in Jefferson City, not just when the Legislature meets.

Kinder has a long history of sticking taxpayers with the bill:

... grown accustomed to staying at luxury hotels in St. Louis - and letting taxpayers pick up the tab.

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Embarrassed by the attention those stories received in 2011, Kinder eventually repaid $35,000 of those travel expenses.

Pete Kinder is a Tea Party favorite, most recently making the news for his dog-whistle comments on the protests in Ferguson:

“That’s one of the great advances of Anglo-American civilization, is that that we do not have politicized trials. We let the justice system work it out.”
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