Garry Gross has an interesting article [1] revealing democrat corruption in the Pennsylvania House:
I’ve written alot about the Pennsylvania House Democratic Office of Legislative Research [2] scandal [3]. Tracie Mauriello is the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter who’s uncovered alot of this information. Here’s Ms. Auriello’s latest article [4] on the subject. It’s the most damaging article yet. Here’s what I’m talking about:
Brett Cott, a high-ranking policy analyst in the state House of Representatives, spent 11 weeks straight in Beaver Falls last year working on former House Democratic Whip Michael Veon’s unsuccessful re-election campaign. Patrick Grill, also a policy analyst, squeezed in at least 10 trips from Harrisburg to Waynesburg to campaign for Democratic Leader Bill DeWeese.Both continued to draw their state salaries while they campaigned, according to records obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Mr. Cott’s annual salary is $87,412 and Mr. Grill’s is $67,552. Altogether, at least 45 House Democratic employees campaigned on weekdays last year but never left the state payroll and still received bonuses as a reward for their state work, the records show.
Mr. Cott received a $25,065 bonus and Mr. Grill received $12,685. They were among 717 House Democratic staffers who received taxpayer-fund bonuses worth $1.9 million.
Bill DeWeese is now the Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He was asked whether the $1.8 million in bonuses to House Democratic staffers was for their work on Democrats’ campaigns. In fact, Rep. DeWeese denied a connection [3] between the bonuses and campaign work:
House Majority Leader H. William DeWeese, D-Greene, has denied any tie between the bonuses and campaign work.
Here’s one of the things that initially set off red flags for me:
Some recipients already were making six-figure salaries and got five-figure onuses on top of that. House Democratic leader Bill DeWeese of Waynesburg urged his bonus recipients not to tell anyone, but unhappy legislative employees, who didn’t get the extra money, leaked word to the Harrisburg Patriot-News and then other newspapers.
Heh… This is nothing short of amazing. And this is not the first I’ve heard of this; I’ve been hearing for months now that DeWeese is in this butt-deep. not that I think that the democrats are gonna pay anything for this corruption. As indicated by the method by which we found out about all of this, namely the employees who got ticked and went to the newspaper because they didn’t get paid off, This machine is too large to be in trouble in the short term.
This is, however, just one more example of the kind of corruption going on with the Democrats. I wonder if we could ever get the mainstream media to investigate some of this stuff?
Nah. I guess I’m asking too much for them to do their job.