Stephen Farnsworth at the University of Mary Washington says members of the General Assembly are not ordinary people. “It’s not a legislature that looks like Virginia in part because it’s not designed to be a legislature that looks like Virginia. You put the income of your lawmakers up against the income and assets of ordinary Virginians and you see a huge difference,” Farnsworth notes.

New Analysis Catalogs the Wealth of Virginia Lawmakers (WVTF)