Barker lambasts APS senior administrator legislator

KRQE has finally posted the link, to the story on their website.

As best I recollect; state law prohibits legislators from accepting any compensation, except their per diem, for their service as legislators.

It turns out, according to Barker, APS senior administrator Sheryl Williams Stapleton has been collecting her APS salary in addition to her per diem. Barker alleges that taxpayers have been bilked out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Her response to Barker efforts to ask questions, left the impression that Rep Sheryl Williams Stapleton would have Barker (and the people) take any followup questions we might have, roll them up tightly, and stick 'em where the sun don't shine.

Reinforcing the impression that politicians and public servants really don't think they have any enforceable obligation to respond to legitimate questions about the public interests and about their public service.

And there in, of course, lies the real problem.