Legislators Secure Jobs for Themselves
Filed Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Call it taking care of their own. Or perhaps, an investment in their own futures. Whatever you call it, state legislators buried a nest egg in the controversial MoHELA bill signed into law last week.
Stuck in the center of the 52-page Senate Bill 389, which, among other things, took $350 million from the state’s college loan fund and put it towards new construction projects on campuses around the state, there is also a provision that makes it much easier for legislators to get a job after they are term-limited out of office.
SB 389 also states that “no public college or university… shall reject an applicant for a faculty position based solely on the applicant having not earned a graduate degree, provided that the applicant has earned an undergraduate baccalaureate degree and has served for at least eight years in the general assembly.”
So a bachelor’s degree and four terms in the State House now makes you as qualified to teach in a Missouri college as a Ph.D. or a master’s degree in the particular field.
Term-limits is now the tune to which self-preservation and special interests dance to in the State Capitol.
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