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Hobbs, GOP lawmakers at odds over Arizona legislative salaries

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and the Republican-controlled legislature can't agree on how to boost legislative salaries.

(Howard Fischer/Capitol Media Services)

PHOENIX - Katie Hobbs says when she was a state senator a decade ago, ashe was making $24,000 a year.

"It wasn't enough,'' she said in a recent message to followers while asking for money for her reelection campaign.

But Hobbs, now governor and making $95,000 a year, is showing a lot less sympathy to lawmakers who are still being paid that same $24,000.

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