Twenty-four of 120 Senate and Assembly members voluntarily have cut their $116,208 salaries as the state wrestles with a huge budget shortfall.
18 percent cut
• Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria
• Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach
• Assemblyman Mike Eng, D-Monterey Park
10 percent cut
• Sen. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana
• Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo
• Assemblyman Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo
• Assemblyman Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks
• Assemblyman Ira Ruskin, D-Redwood City
• Assemblyman Bill Berryhill, R-Ceres
7.75 percent cut
• Assemblyman Ted Gaines, R-Roseville
5 percent cut
• Sen. Dave Cox, R-Fair Oaks
• Assemblyman Mike Villines, R-Clovis
3 percent cut
• Sen. Jeff Denham, R-Merced
• Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego
• Sen. Gloria Negrete McLeod, D-Chino
• Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Solana Beach
• Assemblyman Jim Beall, D-San Jose
• Assemblywoman Jean Fuller, R-Bakersfield
• Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani, D-Livingston
• Assemblyman Martin Garrick, R-Solana Beach
• Assemblyman Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina
• Assemblyman Ted Lieu, D-Torrance
• Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco
• Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Cañada-Flintridge
PER DIEM
Other lawmakers have turned down the $173 per diem payments – totaling about $35,000 a year, tax-free, for most lawmakers:
• Sen. Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento
• Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis
• Assemblywoman Alyson Huber, D-El Dorado Hills
• Assemblyman Dave Jones, D-Sacramento
• Assemblyman Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks
• Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada, D-Davis
Note: Sen. Dave Cox, R-Fair Oaks, accepts per diem but says he donates it to charity.
CAR ALLOWANCE
Seventeen lawmakers declined the state car allowance offered to legislators:
• Sen. Dave Cox, R-Fair Oaks
• Assemblyman Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks
• Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada, D-Davis
• Assemblyman Juan Arambula, D-Fresno
• Assemblyman Marty Block, D-San Diego
• Assemblywoman Connie Conway, R-Tulare
• Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine
• Assemblywoman Jean Fuller, R-Bakersfield
• Assemblyman Martin Garrick, R-Solana Beach
• Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point
• Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco
• Assemblyman Brian Nestande, R-Palm Desert
• Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Cañada-Flintridge
• Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Moorpark
• Sen. Carol Liu, D-La Cañada-Flintridge
• Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Solana Beach
• Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles
