midnight payraise

  • Beginning

    Beginning

    In the morning hours the General Assembly passed pay increases for state lawmakers, judges, and top executive-branch officials.
  • pay raise

    pay raise

    16% to 34% pay raise depending on the job
  • Pigs

    Pigs

    Gene Stilp flys a giant pig over the capital as protest for the pay raise
  • Repeal

    Repeal

    Governor Rendell signed a repeal of the pay raise after a near unanimous vote.
  • Stilp

    Stilp

    Gene Stilp named citizen of the year by the Philadelphia inquirer for his actions against the payraise
  • Later

    Later

    Election claimed several more members who supported the pay raise.
  • 44

    44

    Act 44 was passed in an unconstitutional way
  • Judge

    Judge

    around 1000 judges got a pay raise
  • States

    States

    Legislatures making more money than any state except California