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Beginning
In the morning hours the General Assembly passed pay increases for state lawmakers, judges, and top executive-branch officials. -
pay raise
16% to 34% pay raise depending on the job -
Pigs
Gene Stilp flys a giant pig over the capital as protest for the pay raise -
Repeal
Governor Rendell signed a repeal of the pay raise after a near unanimous vote. -
Stilp
Gene Stilp named citizen of the year by the Philadelphia inquirer for his actions against the payraise -
Later
Election claimed several more members who supported the pay raise. -
44
Act 44 was passed in an unconstitutional way -
Judge
around 1000 judges got a pay raise -
States
Legislatures making more money than any state except California