GOP rep: ‘Bullcrap’ to say taxpayers pay my salary (original) (raw)

Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) faced off with constituents at a town hall this week, telling the members of the audience that they don’t pay his salary.

“You say you pay for me to do this? That’s bullcrap,” Mullin said at the town hall in Jay, Okla., according to a video of the incident.

“I pay for myself. I paid enough taxes before I got here and continue to through my company to pay my own salary. This is a service. No one here pays me to go,” he added.

After constituents pushed back, Mullin reiterated that being a lawmaker is not “how I make my living.”

{mosads}“I’m just saying … this is a service for me, not a career, and I thank God this is not how I make my living,” he said.

Mullin’s spokeswoman, Amy Lawrence, told the Tulsa World that the lawmaker does not want to become a career politician.

“The congressman reiterates in the video that his work as the representative of the Second District of Oklahoma is a service,” Lawrence said.

“His aspiration is to be a career legislator and not a career politician. He is not, nor does he ever aspire to be, a career politician. His priority will always be to serve his constituents to the best of his ability.”

Mullin is the owner of multiple companies under the umbrella of Mullin Plumbing.