Kicking up the cow-pies

• John Perzel has probably taken a beating among the dairy vote for his claim that migrant milkers take home a swanky $55k per year. He appears to have disappeared again after making his remarks.
  
  
• Meanwhile, a group of state lawmakers have made a noisy show of bills to repeal the pay-hike or the early bonus (unvouchered expenses) portion thereof. It's pretty unlikely that either of these will ever see the light of day (or even dark-of-night consideration), so the legislators behind them are mostly hoping to get risk-free political cover with their constituents.