Pa. House drops ‘legislative privilege,’ will release lawmaker spending details

[Disir]

After shielding spending details for months, leaders in the Pennsylvania House are reversing course and will publicly disclose how and why lawmakers spend hundreds of millions in taxpayer money.

The House announced the reversal late last week, more than a week after stories published by The Caucus and Spotlight PA revealed House lawyers had blacked out spending details in thousands of pages of records released to the news organizations.

House officials initially argued the state Constitution gave them the right to shield certain information about how lawmakers and their staff spend money. But on Thursday, they backed off that position and restored dozens of spending details and promised to turn over hundreds more in the coming weeks.
Pa. House drops ‘legislative privilege,’ will release lawmaker spending details

I'd say that it's crucial to know where that money goes. Every cent of it.

 

[Jackson]

Sounds like a good time for popcorn as you read the details and take notes for the next thread you post.

 

[BluesLegend]

They use the money to purchase votes. Its that simple.

 

[BULLDOG]

It's about time that the Republican state house quit hiding their expenditures for partisan actions from the tax payers who pay for it. Now, the Republican PA. State Senate needs to do the same thing.

 

[BluesLegend]

Here's an example from NY. The NY house majority leader hired his brother for a patronage director position not subject to civil service salary bands. Naturally it paid his brother a fat 6 figure salary. His brother didn't have any experience in this area. No we are just getting started. His bother was too lazy to drive 35 miles to his state office to work so taxpayers leased him his own personal office for $50k a year...from the NY house majority leader's next door neighbor. THAT's how these politicians waste our money.

 

[BULLDOG]

Here's an example from NY. The NY house majority leader hired his brother for a patronage director position not subject to civil service salary bands. Naturally it paid his brother a fat 6 figure salary. His brother didn't have any experience in this area. No we are just getting started. His bother was too lazy to drive 35 miles to his state office to work so taxpayers leased him his own personal office for $50k a year...from the NY house majority leader's next door neighbor. THAT's how these politicians waste our money.

I thought the thread was about PA. hiding expenditures.

 

[BluesLegend]

Here's an example from NY. The NY house majority leader hired his brother for a patronage director position not subject to civil service salary bands. Naturally it paid his brother a fat 6 figure salary. His brother didn't have any experience in this area. No we are just getting started. His bother was too lazy to drive 35 miles to his state office to work so taxpayers leased him his own personal office for $50k a year...from the NY house majority leader's next door neighbor. THAT's how these politicians waste our money.

I thought the thread was about PA. hiding expenditures.

You thought wrong.