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18 years, 18 months, 18 weeks, 18 days, 18 hours or 18 minutes, How long have the illegalities gone on? Maybe only Rose Mary Woods knows, but I'd bet that Bill DeWeese might know about the additional 1/2 a minute a destruction order can take.

Democratic caucus trashed files, sources say

Internal House Democratic Caucus documents were shredded as a grand jury investigation was under way late this summer, according to several independent Capitol sources.

The documents are believed to include personnel records that might be pertinent to Attorney General Tom Corbett's investigation of whether legislative staffers were paid bonuses for political work, sources say.

A Democratic legislator, who asked not to be named, said he heard "20 to 30 boxes" that included "leave slips and comp time" records were shredded.

House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese, who says he is cooperating with Corbett's investigation, did not respond for comment last night through his
spokesman.

As we have said over and over, reform cannot be gotten from the "old bulls" of the legislature. The "old bulls" have controlled the money and the flow of money for as long as most people can remember. The destruction of these files was not a mistake. It was deliberative. The destruction was not ordered by some new guy like Denny O'Brien or a wet nosed kid from Scranton. The order came from the top, but which head on this two-headed bull gave the order, Democrat or Republican or both. They share the same old dirty bed.