Mark B. Cohen Doesn’t Want You To Know He’s Secretly Funding Phillyblog’s Server Bills

Mark B. Cohen is back in the news! Yes! The voracious reader, extender of lifespans, hardcore Phillyblog supporter/Phillyblog Day proposer, Mayor of the Internet and — most importantly — one of Philadelphia Will Do’s People of the Year is now at it again, hoping he can find ways to stop you from knowing how he spends your money. (Please that Cohen spent $28,000 on books over two years; one of them was AOL For Dummies, clearly the most important thing for any legislator to read.)

In his column today on the “reforms” enacted by the state legislature, Daily News columnist John Baer notes Cohen’s lone dissent on a bill that would post House expense reports online:

My personal favorite, putting all expenses online, won commission approval by a vote of 23-1. The one “no” was Philly’s Mark Cohen, the Babe Ruth of spending, the king of per diems, he who built a personal library with taxpayer money. [...] Cohen says making expenses easily accessible provides “a wonderful source of gossip… reporters can write endless stories on this.”

I know, can you imagine the gossip? “Ooooh, did you hear what Mark B. Cohen did? He spent $28 on a lunch at Sizzler and expensed it!” “Ohmigod! I gotta call Tammy!”

John Baer | Harrisburg digging its way out of the muck [Daily News]
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