Pennsylvania governor strips lieutenant gov of security

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Pennsylvania governor strips lieutenant gov of security
Marc Levy, Associated Press Updated 5:36 pm, Friday, April 21, 2017


HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Breaking decades of precedent, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is stripping the state's lieutenant governor, Mike Stack, and his wife of state police protection following complaints about the Stacks' treatment of troopers and other state employees.

Wolf released a three-sentence letter Friday addressed to Stack informing him of the decision. The move dropped jaws in the state Capitol, since lieutenant governors have had state police protection for decades in Pennsylvania, and have occasionally had to step in to serve as governor.

 
Wolf also told Stack in the letter that he would limit cleaning, grounds keeping and maintenance staff at his fellow Democrat's official residence near Harrisburg, and only under supervision at pre-arranged times.

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Neither Wolf nor Stack have given details about the complaints, although media reports suggested they center around allegations that the Stacks verbally abused their state police security detail and household staff at the official residence, and pressured state police drivers to use lights and sirens to bypass traffic in non-emergency situations.





Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Pennsylvania-governor-strips-lieutenant-gov-of-11090374.php

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Both Democrats? So not putting party over the people? Yeah, thought so, Democrats usually

dont.

[Historic NY]

2. Pretty nice digs, apparently they forgot the hired help works for the taxpayers.

http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/04/a_look_inside_pennsylvanias_li.html

[Judi Lynn]

3. THE LATEST: PENNSYLVANIA LIEUTENANT GOV WON'T OPPOSE REBUKE

Apr 21, 7:54 PM EDT



HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The Latest on Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf stripping the state's lieutenant governor of state police protection following complaints about his treatment of troopers and other state employees (all times local):

7:20 p.m.

Lt. Gov. Mike Stack is giving no public resistance to being stripped of state police protection following complaints about how he and his wife treated troopers and other state employees.

In a statement, Stack says he agrees with Gov. Tom Wolf's decision Friday to yank the security detail and limit cleaning, grounds keeping and maintenance by state employees at the lieutenant governor's official residence.

Neither Wolf nor Stack have given details about the complaints, although media reports suggest they center around allegations that the Stacks verbally abused their state police security detail and household staff at the residence.

More:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PENNSYLVANIA_LIEUTENANT_GOVERNOR_PROBE_THE_LATEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-04-21-19-54-47

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Lt. Gov. Mike Stack and wife, Tonya Stack.

[jls4561]

7. What the hell is the wife wearing?

It better be fake fur or -50 degreases centigrade.

[DeminPennswoods]

4. Lt Gov is about the most irrelevent job in the state

Honestly, I'm not even sure what the LtGov's official duties are save breaking ties in the senate which the GOP controls 33-17. It's weird but Gov and LtGov run seperately and are elected seperately in the primary. It can make for odd couples when they run together on a ticket. Back in the day, Mark Single was Bob Casey, Sr's lt gov and Casey wasn't crazy about him. When Single ran for gov, Casey didn't do much to help him.

Stack's always been kind of a jerk, though. I doubt he cares if the state troopers drive him around.

[William769]

5. Good move.

[Freedomofspeech]

6. Brilliant.

I love Governor Wolf....he is a man of principles. We were invited to his inauguration and when Mrs. Stack stepped out in her fur coat, we were appaled.

[Adrahil]

8. Who the heck is stack and his fake tan wife?

They seem like festering assholes, Democrats or not....

[padah513]

9. I think Elvis said it best

Well a hard headed woman
A soft hearted man
Been the cause of trouble
Ever since the world began

Back in high school when I was in the band, this was our bandleader and his wife to a tee. She even looked like Mrs. Stack right down to the fur coat. She wanted what she wanted when she wanted it, and she usually wanted it NOW. Made his life at school a living hell to the point where other teachers shunned him. I returned to school for a football game a few years later and he looked like a completely different person. Happy, smiling, and divorced.