This is exactly the kind of information Democrats want out there on the Democrat dominated taxpayer abuse scandal of 2008.  Why does it take $1.4 million paid to high priced Washington, D.C. lawyer to have these folks tell the truth?   Is the $1.4 million truth that much better than the free truth?  Or is the free truth not really the truth at all?  This is all very confusing.   From the Timesleader.com:

Attorney Bill Chadwick, of Chadwick Associates Inc., a D.C. firm that has sopped up some $800,000 in Pennsylvania taxpayer bucks while advising folks in the state House Democratic Caucus how to respond to the “Bonusgate” investigation by Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett’s office.

According to an Associated Press article in our paper Friday, Chadwick and other lawyers and consultants have already garnered more than $1.4 million for help in dealing with allegations that legislative employees were paid bonuses for campaign work, often on state time, using public equipment.

And what did that $1.4 million buy us? This really merits the full quote from Chadwick:

“We understand that this is a substantial expenditure of public funds, but we believe strongly that it was entirely appropriate under the circumstances to facilitate the truthful cooperation of the caucus staff with the attorney general’s investigation.”

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