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Midnight Pay Raise

By LWolf

  • Start

    Start
    PA general assembley passed pay increasefor state lawmakers, judges, and top executive -branch officials.

  • outrage

    outrage
    the people outraged by the midnight pay raise

  • legislators

    legislators
    9 legislators say they will not take pay raise

  • Nigro

    Nigro
    Russell Nigro ran for retention election but lost

  • Repeal

    Repeal
    Governor Rendell signed a repeal of the pay raise after a near unanimous vote for repeal.

  • pay raise argument

    pay raise argument
    Gene Stilp argues the pay raise to the supreme court

  • Supreme Court Decision

    Supreme Court Decision
    In a much-awaited ruling issued yesterday, the state Supreme Court, whose members also will get the higher pay, overruled part of Act 72. That's the measure legislators approved Nov. 16 to cancel the pay raises they had approved earlier last year for themselves, state judges and some members of Gov. Ed Rendell's cabinet.

  • Thomas Saylor

    Thomas Saylor
    Thomas Saylor (involved in midnight pay raise) was elected again (retention election)

  • Barbara McIlvaine Smith

    Barbara McIlvaine Smith
    Barbara McIlvaine Smith announced that she would not run for re-election in 2010, saying that she was frustrated with the progress of the post-pay raise reform movement

  • continuing to reap benefits

    continuing to reap benefits
    Government reform advocates slam Pa. legislators for continuing to reap benefits from the 2005 pay raise