The voters get mad because the folks we elect pick our pockets and laugh in our face when we object. They think we are there to serve them and do not have the power to change things. That's what Goliath thought and look wht happened to him!
State Supreme Court Justice Russell M. Nigro, the first state-level judge ever denied another 10-year term, says he was the victim of "misguided" outrage over the pay-raise law the Legislature approved in July. Don't worry sir. We are not yet done.
"It doesn't make any difference whether you're good, bad or indifferent -- you're gone," Nigro told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "What (voters) did was an irrational thing. They sent a misguided missile."
The election came on the heels of a dramatic, albeit stalled, effort in the Legislature to repeal a four-month-old pay raise law that has riled voters. With no other state-level officials up for election this year, citizen groups that opposed the pay raise trained their sights on defeating the justices as a way to register public disenchantment with state government.
"I don't know what they thought they accomplished by knocking me out of the box," he said.
Calvin Cooledge was once asked what one thing he would like to do to improve the presidency. He replied saying he would like to be able to execute one person a year. The reporter then asked him if one would be enough? He said no, but it would keep the others wondering who's next.
Ponder that Mr. Nigro.
Post-Gazette
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"What (voters) did was an irrational thing. They sent a misguided missile."
How very nice. Another person who knows my thoughts better than myself.
Unfounded arrogance is one of my pet peeves.
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