There was some news today regarding state Sen. Mike Waugh, R-Shrewsbury, who represents most of York County. A news release from his office explains it.
Continue reading Sen. Waugh.
State government: November 2008 Archives
When we last left off ... Former state representatives Steve Stetler, D-York, and Bruce Smith, R-Dillsburg, both stepped down before the 2006 election.
Both were taking a lot of heat as the only members of the York County statehouse delegation to vote for the 2005 legislative pay raise.
Especially Smith. Most of the Republican candidates from his district enthusiastically trashed him in the subsequent primary.
That pay raise vote was an outrage magnet for so many reasons. A lot of the lawmakers took advantage of a loophole to draw their pay raise early, which some watchdogs claimed was unconstitutional. It took place at 2 a.m., with no official notice and no debate, etc. etc.
Newspaper editorial boards, angry writers of letters to the editor and assorted bipartisan bloggers composed reams and reams of material on what was wrong with the pay raise vote in the following years. If you'd like to read some, a simple Google search should afford you plenty of material.
But at the risk of courting political and journalistic heresy, I'd like to put a little bit of that in perspective -- particularly where Stetler and Smith are concerned.
Continue reading Steve Stetler -- Part 2.
The big news last week is that Tom Wolf, Mt. Wolf resident and former co-owner of The Wolf Organization, is stepping down from his job as state secretary of revenue.
Not only that, but another York County resident is replacing him -- former state Rep. Steve Stetler, D-York.
The word on the street -- according to my confidential informant, Huggy Bear -- is that Wolf is contemplating a run for governor in 2010 as the Democratic candidate. Huggy Bear also said that Tom Corbett, Pennsylvania's attorney general, is looking more and more like he might be the Republican candidate.
I've got plenty of time, of course, to contemplate the gubernatorial race. For now, I'd like to talk about Stetler a little bit.
Continue reading Steve Stetler -- Part 1.
