Lincoln Blog

July 22, 2008:

The Bonusgate indictments have reignited the flames of reform in Pennsylvania. But will this latest brushfire of freedom result in any more change than the one that consumed the capitol after the infamous middle-of-the-night pay raise?

Likely it will not.

Unless it results in the convening of a state consitutional convention. Reformers are fooling themselves if they think the rotten-to-the-core culture that pervades state government can be reformed from within. Quite simply Gene Stilp's pink pig will fly before that happens.

The only recourse is for we the people of Penn's woods to take matters into our own hands and draft a new governing document in a statewide consitutional convention -- one that excludes sitting legislators and lobbyists.

Then, and only then, will the winds of real reform blow across the commonwealth.

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