77% of Minnesota legislature continue to be paid after shutdown

Of course. Yet again, those ``representatives`` think of themselves as above everyone else.

139 legislators are collecting paychecks during shutdown

After Gov. Mark Dayton announced that he would not accept pay during the state government shutdown, 15 senators and 47 representatives followed suit.

That leaves 52 of the 67 members of the Senate (77 percent) and 87 of the 134 members of the House (65 percent) who collected July paychecks.

Put another way, shutdown pay is going to 66 percent of the 93 DFLers and 72 percent of the 108 Republicans. They are:

Nice work there...