90.5 WESA s The Confluence for Tuesday, March 9, 2021
On today s program: The state board tasked with licensing and overseeing casinos has become a “golden parachute” for some lawmakers and the politically connected, explains Spotlight PA reporter Angela Couloumbis; and a palliative care social worker tells us what it means to die well, and why the pandemic is making it harder for her to support patients.
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The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is sometimes called, in jest, the “golden parachute” for out-of-work Harrisburg legislators.
Democrat Frank Dermody lost his bid for a 16th term in the state House last November. Three months later he was appointed to a $145,000 a year job as on the board.
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Thumbs down to yet another cozy appointment to a well-paying state vacancy.
State Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, R-Centre, named Frances “Fran” Regan to serve a two-year term on the state’s Gaming Control Board. Regan, a former federal probation officer who has spent the past six years running a private business providing fitness and personal safety classes for women, will earn $145,000 a year in the post.
Nice work if you can get it. And to get it, it helps to have personal ties to state lawmakers.
Regan is the wife of two-term state Sen. Mike Regan, R-Dillsburg. She replaces Merritt Reitzel, who was appointed by Corman’s predecessor, Republican Joe Scarnati, whose chief of staff was Reitzel’s brother-in-law.
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HARRISBURG The top Republican in the Pennsylvania Senate has quietly appointed the spouse of a colleague to a coveted spot on the state’s Gaming Control B