I’m back in Harrisburg and waiting on any news about the budget. There was a meeting scheduled for tonight at the Governor’s Mansion with the leadership of the four caucuses. I doubt if anything much will come of it, but we can all hope. I get emails from constituents about the budget and did an interview today with a local paper about it. The situation is tough to explain to people. They want to know where things are, and you tell them nowhere, then they ask how do we move forward, and I explain that we are miles apart and that the Governor needs to come to the table and earnestly work on things, not just show up on occasion and spend most of his time working the press. It’s called leadership, and he ain’t got it.

- John