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FLASHPOINT for May 26, 2007

Saturday, May 26, 2007 | 7:12 a.m.

The headline was brutal: "Salary by Commission: It Works for Car Dealers, How About Political Committees?" Brutal because the story in CQ Today was about salaries being paid to top staffers at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, run by John Ensign, the Nevada senator. The piece began: "Despite lousy fundraising numbers and little to show for candidate recruitment efforts, top aides at the National Republican Senatorial Committee are making much more than their Democratic counterparts." Those aides are former Ensign operatives making upward of $100,000. "We pay good people," Ensign said, adding that the discrepancy in fundraising "doesn't mean our people aren't good." I should hope not.

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