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Midnight Raise
PA State Legislators vote themselves a $4,000 to $13,000 pay raise (depending on position) at 2:00 AM -
Public Reacts
PA citizens cry out against the sudden vote, which was decided without reaching public ear before hand. -
Change of Heart
9 Legislators announce they will not be taking the pay raise -
Court Ruling
Courts announce that the 2:00 AM pay raise act is unconstitutional -
Checks and Balances
Metcalfe announces a package of "checks and balances" bills to terminate the judicial pay raise, reduce the term of office for judges from 10 to five years, eliminate the practice of judicial retention, and strike the constitutional provision that prohibits the reduction of a judicial salary in the middle of a term in office -
Retention Election
Citizens Vote against the retention of Justice Russell Nigro. Justice Sandra Schultz Newman is barely retained. -
Payraise Repealed
The sudden 'Midnight Raise" payraise act is repealed -
Judges get Pay Raise
More than 1,000 state judges will get to keep their middle-of-the-night pay raises even though the Legislature repealed the judicial raises. -
Retention Election
Thomas Saylor faces retention election -
Budget
Legislators wrap up the budget process in the early hours of the morning despite the law that states it must be finished by 11:00 PM -
Bump
More than a dozen lawmakers who voted for the payraise begin reaping the benefits of the pay bump they recieved through their pensions. -
Gene Stilp
Democratic lieutenant governor candidate and anti-pay raise activist Gene Stilp personally argues against the pay raise case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Philadelphia on Tuesday, April 4
