I hit the office after church and felt better about what I got accomplished today.  The organizational time is needed and productive, but the pile of stuff that was there when you walked in is still there when you walk out.   Today, I got through some of the stuff.  There wasn’t much new in the Sunday papers, the usual political stories, mostly about Gubernatorial candidates, and some about tomorrows start of former Representative Mike Veon’s Bonusgate trial.  Interestingly, tomorrow is the third anniversary of my letter to AG Corbett asking him to investigate the Senate, which now has become known as the Bonusgate investigation.  Although this investigation has grabbed a lot of headlines over the past three years and the Senate has spent hundreds of thousands of tax dollars on legal fees preparing for any question that might be asked of any member, or, possibly, former member, the Senate investigation is essentially nonexistent.  I haven’t given up hope that a fair and balanced look will be given to the political operations of the Senate, but a whitewash looks more probable with each passing day.

- John