Who's been naughty and who's been nice?

Presidential race is not the only important one on primary ballot


But no one has forgotten the last campaign in 2006, which occurred after lawmakers passed, then repealed, a fat pay increase for themselves and other high officials in state government.
Voters responded by unseating 24 incumbents, and the atmosphere became so poisonous that 31 others retired voluntarily.


The pay raise fervor has cooled, but now incumbents have to worry how voters will react to a new crop of controversies that include the law to add tolls on Interstate 80, the arrest of a politically connected owner of a Poconos casino on charges he lied about contacts with underworld figures, and last summer’s budget stalemate that briefly shut down large parts of state government.

The old bulls are being naughty now. Rumors of planted primary challengers are flying as the old bulls try to settle old scores. More later