Ousted justice says voters’ rage was misdirected

November 11, 2005 by Matt Heckman.

This came from the Reading Eagle today. We got these people on the ropes, but I still can’t help but puke over their self centered egos about how it was unfair. Ed Rendell, and David Brightbill, Tom Caltigirone YOU’RE NEXT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

HARRISBURG Supreme Court Justice Russell M. Nigro, the first state-level judge ever denied another 10-year term, said Thursday that although voter anger over the size of pay raises may have been justified, it was “misdirected” at him. (Oh cry me a river. Maybe you should have a talk with Ralph Cappy for going behind closed doors with O’Pake, Brightbil, and Rendell on how to make the pay raise pass the court system. You Nigro are just as GUILTY, and you got what you deserve.)

Calling himself disappointed but not angry, Nigro noted that the amounts of the raises were set by the Legislature. He said there was nothing he could do about the pay-raise law because a legal challenge has not come before the Supreme Court. (That’s because of Ralph Cappy’s involvment, and every leagal professional knew that you guys were compromised. That is why the challenge went to the Federal Courts.)

“I think (voters) were blinded by rage. They were angered by the pay raises, and I’m not saying they weren’t justified,” Nigro said in a telephone interview Thursday. But if the election had turned on his record from 10 years as a member of the state’s highest court, he said he would have been overwhelmingly retained. (You are DAMN RIGHT we are enraged, but not just about the pay raise, but self centered scum bags like you pimping off of the hard working tax payers of this state all of these years. You crying about the voters rage proves your arragonace to the people of this Commonwealth.)

“It was misdirected and misguided,” Nigro said. “They went after me because they couldn’t go after somebody other than me.” (Maybe instead of sending more of our tax money to Harrisburg we can send diapers to Nigro, because we will have more cry babies in 2006.)

Since about a week before Tuesday’s election, members of the Legislature have been trying to agree on legislation to repeal the four-month-old pay raise law, which boosted legislative salaries by 16 to 54 percent and increased the pay of the state’s more than 1,000 judges by 11 percent to 15 percent. The House and Senate are at odds over the constitutionality of repealing the judges’ raises. (How easy it is for them to enact it, but how hard it is to repeal it. If these bastards cared about the constitutionality of anything they would never have passed the pay raise in the first place.)

With no other state-level officials up for election this year, citizen groups that opposed the pay raise targeted Nigro and fellow Justice Sandra Schultz Newman, urging voters to throw them off the bench to show their disenchantment with state government. (Boy did we take the voter paddle with holes over Nigro’s ass, and give him a spanking or what? We got plenty more of that where it came from. Though Brighbill may enjoy the spanking a little too much if you know what I mean.)

Nigro, a Democrat serving his first term on the court, attracted 47 percent of the vote 701,410 “yes” votes to 804,703 “no” votes with 99 percent of the vote counted, making him the first statewide judge to be turned out of office in the 36 years that retention elections have been held. Newman, a Republican, collected 54 percent. (Republican, or Democrat does not matter they are all scum bags that betrayed the trust of the citizens of the Commonwealth.)

Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell, who recorded automated telephone messages for Newman and offered to do the same for Nigro, echoed Nigro’s assessment that his defeat was unfair.
“If voters want to take out on politicians their anger on some things that politicians or elected officials did, it’s fair game,” the governor said at a Capitol news briefing Thursday. “But to the best of my knowledge Russell Nigro had nothing to do with the pay raise.” (Another lie out of the mouth of Rendell. I guess he was drinking a lot when he met with Ralph Cappy to ensure the pay raise would not get killed in the State Supreme Court. If Rendell gave a rats rear about this pay raise he would have veteoed it. Fast Eddie can do all he wants because he will have to run like a bat out of hell when we vote his rear end out of office in 2006.)

Lawmakers approved the raises around 2 a.m. on July 7 without debate or hearings. More galling to many Pennsylvanians, most lawmakers began collecting their extra money right away as “unvouchered expenses” even though the state constitution bars legislators from receiving raises approved during their terms. (Got to wonder what O’Pake, and Brightbill are doing with that money right now?)

Nigro said he has voted to throw out part or all of laws in 44 percent of the challenges that reached the state’s highest court. And he said he should not be judged guilty by association with the pay raise decision just because he is getting a bigger paycheck. (Again the name Ralph Cappy ring a bell?)

“If that’s the mentality, I don’t know how rationally you can answer that,” Nigro said.
Nigro, 59, said he has no plans for the future beyond January, when his term is up. Rendell will appoint a temporary successor until voters elect Nigro’s replacement in November 2007. (Here is a rational decision Nigro. Soon Fast Eddie, Brightbill, and the other scum bags in Harrisburg will get our message. YOUR SERVICES ARE NO LONGER NEEDED!!!!!!! BYE BYE NIGRO AND DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS ON THE WAY OUT. )

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