McIntyre_Upset

Bill McIntyre

April 11, 2008

To: Friends of Responsible Government
Subject: Upset

Dear Friends,

I’m upset; but that’s nothing new. Daily I’m reminded of the mess we have here in Harrisburg in our beautiful capital building. No, the building is clean and well maintained. It’s what goes on in the building by our elected officials is what upsets me and many others.

In Thursday’s Patriot-News appeared a headline – “Legislative leaders keep expense records secret” by Jan Murphy. Thanks for the great reporting, Jan! The seventh paragraph reads – “The House and Senate chief clerks’ offices, which operate at legislative leaders’ direction, denied requests for copies of the reports called ‘summary report of voucher activity’ in the House, and ‘management reports’ in the Senate. Officials from those offices said the documents are for internal use.”

I received from Eric Epstein of RockTheCapital.org the following headline – “How Much Is David G. Argall Worth?” The sub-headline read – “House Reform Committee Member Socks Taxpayers.” Thanks, Eric, for all your efforts and results! Go to Eric’s website – RockTheCapital.org - and view Rep. .Argall’s bloated expenses.

I have worked for several companies in sales and/or public relations most of my adult life. In every case, I was required to complete an expense report either weekly, bi-weekly or monthly with receipts. The actual charges were paid; no more or no less. Those expense reports were available to all management and stockholders of the companies. Per Diems did not exist.

As taxpayers, we are the stockholders of a large corporation known as Pennsylvania. It’s a lousy investment as our corporation makes no money, and to exist; constantly requires more revenue from we, the stockholders. I’m reminded of Enron where the stockholders lost their shirts. We’re loosing our shirts, our pants and wallets to a very poorly managed corporation – symbol (PA) - and can’t sell our stock.

Not all in government abuse their privileges; many are attempting to place the taxpayer first. It is unfortunate that they are in the minority. Too many have abused the system for far too long. We fired a few after the infamous pay grab of July 2005. It appears we may have to place a few more on another government payroll – unemployment compensation.

It appears that many of our elected officials are confused as to who they really work for; themselves or the taxpayers. If themselves, they might want to check with Rep. Mark Cohen, as he’ll have a book on how to complete an expense report. It appears Rep. David Argall already has. With all those books the taxpayers paid for; it’s a shame Rep. Cohen doesn’t have one on how to conduct an honorable and accountable government. It appears they don’t sell many of those books in Harrisburg.

A rather upset,

H. William McIntyre

Still awaiting real government reform; not window dressings

CC: A signed hardcopy to Rep. David G. Argall

A signed hardcopy to Rep. Mark B. Cohen

Executive & Legislative Branches of PA Government

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