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The Democratic lieutenant governor and anti-pay raise activist Gene Stilp personally argue the pay raise case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in te city of Philidelphia on Tuesday, April 4th.
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They passed pay increases for lawmakers, judges and top executive branch officials. The vote took place at 2 am and signed the bill into a law. It increased legislators pay from 16% to 34% depending on their position.
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Since the 2 a.m. vote on July 7, a number of developments have further agitated voters.
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The decision was assailed by citizen groups who raised a public outcry against the three party pay raise that was enacted without debate just after midnight on July 7th.
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Governor Rendell signed a repeal on the pay raise. The House Minority Whip was the only group that voted against the repeal.
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Even though the pay raise law was repealed in 2005 on November 16th, many judges have been seeking to reinstitute the pay raise by overturning the repeal law.
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The September 14th ruling has created anger related to the scandal and a legislative move was put in place to roll back judicial pay and take other actions against the judges.
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After a four month public outcry and after the defeat of a Supreme Court justice in a retention election, Legislature decided to rescind the raises for all three branches.
