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  [Pennsylvania] They are out of office, but not off public payroll
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Last EditedScottĀ³  Jun 18, 2007 09:53pm
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MediaNewspaper - Philadelphia Inquirer
News DateTuesday, June 19, 2007 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionPhiladelphia Inquirer article.

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" Montgomery County voters had enough of Sue Cornell and booted her as their state representative last year.

Residents of Lebanon and Ellwood City did the same to their House members, tossing Peter Zug and Frank LaGrotta into unemployment.

Well, all three are back on the public payroll.

Four legislators who lost reelection bids after the legislative pay debacle in 2005 have found gainful employment as state government bureaucrats. At least three others swept out in the voter uprising now make a living as lobbyists, influencing laws although no longer making them.

Financially, at least, voters in Scranton did one legislator, Fred Belardi, a favor.

The 28-year representative is making $116,000 annually - about 36 percent more than he did as a lawmaker - managing parking spaces and other personnel matters for his former House colleagues.

Turning to Harrisburg as a job-placement service is a time-honored tradition for lawmakers suddenly out of work. This year, however, the numbers are greater in part because more legislators were sent packing than in recent memory.

Critics deride the practice as a sanctioned revolving-door policy. It is all the more noteworthy, say these critics, given the defensive mantra of many lawmakers during the height of the pay-raise debate: that they could earn much more outside government."
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