Guzzardi Seeks Answers Regarding Waugh Job

The man mounting a primary challenge to unpopular Republican incumbent Gov. Tom Corbett, today, March 12, asked for an investigation into a sweetheart job received by one of the governor’s political allies.

Bob Guzzardi has sent letters to state Attorney General Kathleen Kane and Peter Smith, who is the U.S. Attorney for Middle District of Pennsylvania asking them to look into the appointment of Mike Waugh as executive director of the state Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg

Waugh represented the 28th District, which is  in York County, in the state Senate from 1999 until Jan. 13 of this year when he stepped down to take the sweet job.

Waugh had initially said he would quit when his term ended in December. He moved up the date, however, after businessman Scott Wagner, who draws the ire of state party bosses, announced he would seek to replace him.

This allowed a special election to be called in which a person backed by the party organization would hold the cards, and which would allow the winner to run as an incumbent in the May 20 primary.

The special election is March 18. Wagner declined to seek a spot on the ballot albeit he is running a write-in campaign.

“It appears that former State Senator Waugh was given the job, paid for with government money, as an incentive to resign his seat by Republican Party leaders in order that they could manipulate the outcome of Primary election for Senate District 28,” Guzzardi says.

Guzzardi notes that Waugh is getting a $104,000 salary plus benefits as Farm Show Complex boss, and that the person who had held the job remains as “special adviser.”

The special election is costing the taxpayers about $200,000.

 

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