WORKING HARD, OR HARDLY WORKING? Democrat State Senator yet to attend legislature, expected to eclipse 200 tweets since session started today

Democrat State Sen. Rob Hogg has not shown up for the legislative session yet in Des Moines. Hogg has instead been busy tweeting about COVID-19 relentlessly.

In fact, since the legislative session started on Jan. 11, Hogg has tweeted 192 times.

At least by my count. I’ll be honest, after a while it was hard to keep track.

We fully expect Sen. Hogg to hit the 200-mark early Wednesday, likely before Joe Biden is inaugurated.

The session is about 110 days. Sen. Hogg is being paid $25,000. So far, there have been about a half dozen legislative days.

For simplicity’s sake, let’s say legislators are paid $227 per day during session. If Hogg has missed six days already, that means he’s “earned” about $1,362 so far.

Or, to put it into working terms for Sen. Hogg, he’s been paid $7.09 per tweet he’s written since the legislative session started.

That’s not bad.

And that’s not figuring in whether or not he is collecting his per diem of $169. If it’s been six days, that adds another $1,014.

Now we’re talking $12.37 per tweet.

By the end of Biden’s term, $12.37 will probably buy almost three gallons of gas. That is if the author of America’s Climate Century uses gas.

Author: Jacob Hall

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