Carbon County Deserves Better Leaders!

Amid the furor of the removal of Russell Nigro, we are reminded that those who trod all over our state Constitution are still in power: the state legislators.

All three of Carbon's elected state legislators - Musto, McCall, and Rhoades, voted for the unlawful pay raise. They all apparently felt comfortable pocketing the unvouchered expenses, too.

Article III, Section I of the Pennsylvania Constitution states:

"No law shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall be so altered or amended, on its passage through either House, as to change its original purpose."

It is clear from the text above that the legislators' action of taking a 24-line bill that limited executive salaries and turning it into a 22-PAGE bill that granted huge pay raises across the board is a violation of this provision of the Constitution.

The arguments relating to the timing of the unvouchered expenses, etc. are rendered unnecessary because the entire premise of the pay raise was unlawful. What more needs to be said? These men swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, and they were derelict in their duties.

They need to be removed from power. Period.