For ex-politician, safety net's secure

[Freddie Stubbs]

Forget what you heard about life being a bowl of cherries. For Pennsylvania's washed-up former state lawmakers, life is one big plum.

Just ask former State Rep. John Lawless, who served 12 years in the House before voters in his Montgomery County district got tired of his antics and flip-flops (he changed political parties three times) and booted him out in 2002.

Faced with the terrifying prospect of having to actually work for a living, Lawless - or is it Shameless? - instead turned to his former colleagues with his hand out. House Minority Leader H. William DeWeese, who had helped persuade Lawless to switch back to the Democratic ticket a year earlier, had the perfect job for a person of Lawless' crack political skills.

Miraculously, DeWeese just happened to know of an essential public service not being provided to the taxpayers of Pennsylvania - that being the burning need for a special "legislative liaison" to advise Lawless' former colleagues in the state House.

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[BayCityProgressive]

1. how pathetic.

this si how our government wastes our money.