Now let's make sure the forgotten angle of this isn't forgotten -- what was going on under Jubelirer and Brightbill? (Yeah, look at the Senate Democrat caucus too if you want, but they're basically impotent.)
From Peter DeCoursey's Capitolwire column, reprinted in the Oct. 23 Lancaster Intelligencer Journal (subscription required, unfortunately):
How about the Senate? Well, over there, staffers, who spent a lot of time in 2006 doing campaign work for Senate leaders or gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann, got roughly the same five-figure bonuses in 2006 they got in 2005, even while working less for the state. House Democratic staffers who are accused of doing that for former House Minority Whip Mike Veon, D-Beaver, are getting lots of Corbett's time and energy.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a story Sunday that outlined what it found when digging through House Democrat records and looking at who stayed on the payroll while campaigning. What DeCoursey says suggests that there is similar journalistic gold to be found if someone does a similar look at the Senate records from the final year of Jubelirer-Brightbill leadership. The whole Capitol needs to be cleaned up.
