Citypaper - it is amazing how many bad things PA. Republicans can propose in one week

[JPZenger]

http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Oh-no-they-didnt-Last-week-in-Harrisburg-SRC-debacle-payday-loans-booze-And-Corbett-wont-stop-coming.html

the whole article is worth reading. Here's excerpts:

"Corbett also wants an expansion of the state's Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC), which pays corporations back for donating money to private school tuition (“vouchers lite”). This, even after the New York Times published a damning in-depth investigation finding that EITC funnels money through politically connected middlemen and sends taxpayer dollars to religious fundamentalists.... "I just keep coming," says Corbett. "If the other side thinks I'm going to stop, they have another thing coming."
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Coming from a Republican legislature and governor that have presided over a historic dismembering of the state public and higher education system and waged a merciless campaign against the poor, it is hard to be surprised by Harrisburg. But this is so disgusting that I'm still in shock: the House last week past a bill by state Rep. Chris Ross legalizing payday loans and raising annual interest rates from 24 percent to potentially more than 400 percent. Payday lenders prey not only on the poor but on members of the armed services. Payday lending giant Cash America has, according to Inquirer Harrisburg correspondent Amy Worden, reported spending $125,000 on lobbying this session."
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"House Republican declares war on SEPTA because SEPTA won't subsidize natural gas frackers: ... state Rep. Stan Saylor, the House majority whip, pressured SEPTA to open its financial troughs for hungry energy corporations, threatening to cut funding to the agency because it declined to buy natural gas-fueled buses. You see, Rep. Saylor wants SEPTA to buy these buses so they will have to fuel them with natural gas flowing from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale. The problem: SEPTA has determined that the diesel-electric hybrids are cheaper than the gas buses."
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"Booze: It's not big government versus small government. Just weird government"

The post explains the continuing battles between competing types of retailers and bars to see who is allowed to sell what.

[Curmudgeoness]

1. Did he really say "I just keep coming"???

I guess that is because he keeps screwing us.

And I cannot imagine that $125,000 in lobbying spending would be enough to sway politicians. I mean, total of $125,000? And would you be bought out with that amount when you figure it is spread around????

Now I will read the rest of it.

[durablend]

2. They also desperately want red light cameras

For "safety" and "protecting the children", of course. Nothing at all to do with the revenue they'll bring in. Nuh-uh.