Roger Howard, who is seeking to be the Republican nominee in the 158th District in the Pennsylvania House, is saying that legislative pensions are prohibited by Article II, Section 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution and has posted the wording on his Facebook page which we repeat here:
The members of the General Assembly shall
receive such salary and mileage for regular and special sessions as shall be
fixed by law, and no other compensation whatever, whether for service upon
committee or otherwise. No member of either House shall during the term for
which he may have been elected, receive any increase of salary, or mileage,
under any law passed during such term.
Seems pretty cut and dry as pensions are certainly not salary or mileage but are clearly compensation.
Of course, don’t expect a state judge happily in bed with those putting an ever tightening yoke on the state’s taxpayers to agree.
Roger has said he will refuse to take a legislative pension if elected.
The primary election is May 20.
Go Roger!