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[PA] Pay-raise backlash rattling Capitol
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Nov 10, 2005 06:02am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Philadelphia Inquirer |
| News Date | Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Philadelphia Inquirer article.
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"In the beginning, experts gave it a week. Two, tops.
Now, a state Supreme Court justice finds himself out of a job, and other incumbents in Harrisburg are left sweating over their political futures because of what pundits are calling a "populist insurrection."
The anti-pay-raise movement that many had dismissed early on as a passing thunderstorm is developing into a Category 5 hurricane that threatens to uproot incumbents across the state next year.
"Rome is burning, and the empire is crumbling," said State Rep. Thomas C. Petrone (D., Allegheny), who took the raise but later donated it to charities, including those for the widows of two U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. "I hate the thought that I made one mistake over 25 years that could wipe out all my good accomplishments."
On Tuesday, in a stunning turn for Pennsylvania politics, state Supreme Court Justice Russell M. Nigro unwittingly became the first justice in state history to be denied another 10 years on the bench - the first casualty of the pay-raise backlash." |
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