Apr 2, 2006 2 min read

If I may, a humble prediction: If our current legislators are not turned out of office in November, by this time next year we will see another pay raise, another boost to their already overly generous retirement fund and lobbyists for special interests continuing to buy influence, with the support of their accomplices in the state legislature. Our legislators’ patterns are as predictable as the changing seasons. In this election year the incumbents are trying mightily to convince voters of their value by bestowing on us grants and funds that were originally ours to begin with.

This is not admirable, this is not justification for returning them to the largest, most expensive legislature in the country! Cut their numbers, salaries and pensions, and we will support our own causes with the savings in taxes.

I suggest that it’s time for them to move on to other endeavors. I do not believe that “public service” was intended to be a life-long career for parasites. Let state Reps. Bill DeWeese and Pete Daley, et al, be on their way to a real job, where one doesn’t raise his or her own salary, increase his own pension, and have obscene and underserved perks; where one has to have a performance evaluation to even continue in a job.

Let Daley straighten out his own bankrupt business on his own time; we don’t need him to be keeper or our funds in Harrisburg. And let Deweese make charitable contributions out of his own pocket; he’s been far too long reaching into ours.

Jane Sheehan

Brownsville