Employees Hired to Drive Drunk California State Senators Home at Taxpayer Expense

From Breitbart's Big Government:

As a result of too many high profile drunken driver arrests involving California legislators, state senate officials have hired designated driving employees to drive home inebriated lawmakers.

Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León refused to discuss details of the program. “We’re not going to provide comment, because it’s a security issue,” his spokesman, Anthony Reyes, said.

The Sacramento Bee reported that four lawmakers in the past five years have been accused of driving while under the influence of alcohol.

Known as “special services assistants,” the designated drivers work in the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Office and are responsible for providing “ground transportation for Senate members.”

The Bee reported that the two employees—a retired Assembly sergeant-at-arms and a retiree from the Department of General Services—are paid $2,532 per month, of course at taxpayer expense.

So that's almost $61k a year in salary, before benefits, to drive these drunks home.

That's a lot of Uber trips.