Doggies > Legislative pay raises

Okay, I know everyone’s all ga ga over John Grogan ever since his book about his doggy became a best seller. It’s always nice to see a local guy do well. But, before Marley & Me, he spent roughly half of 2006 writing and writing and writing about the legislative pay raises, which were eventually overturned. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He’s back on the beat today, but he’s writing about Delco Rep. Greg Vitali, who voted against the pay raises and didn’t take the money (unlike a bunch of local politicos, namely Myers, Stack, Tartaglione and Kitchen, who voted against the pay raises but immediately took the money). I thought this part was interesting:

Reams of copy have been written about the venal lawmakers who voted themselves the raise in the dead of night, then left town and refused to discuss it. But not much has been said about those who voted against it, or about those who refused to collect it in the form of unvouchered expenses despite a ban on midterm pay raises.

Yes, John, reams of copy were written mainly by you. Now bring on more cute doggies!

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