[The article continues:]
"Here's how. The news release inadvertently raised questions about Casey that apparently he had not anticipated.
We spoke by telephone on Wednesday. His "well-documented public opposition to the legislative pay raise" consists of that news release and one in October (three months after the pay-jacking was signed into law by Gov. Ed Rendell) and a newspaper story in which Casey said he opposed the raise. He could not name another instance. Even when prompted.
Casey did not speak about the pay-jacking with Mr. Rendell, the ringleaders in the Legislature or state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ralph Cappy, who helped cook up the scheme.
Casey, who has a law degree, did not file a lawsuit regarding the pay-jacking. Why?
"I am not sure what you could do," he said. "I did not look into it." The issue is not even mentioned on the Casey campaign Web site or the state Treasury's, other than the news releases.
This is his "well-document public opposition"?"
[And the columnist didn't even get into the fact that, as state Treasurer, it was Casey who paid the legislators that illegally raised their salaries, and he could have put a stop to the raise by refusing to cut the checks and thus send the issue to court; Casey wouldn't have even had to sue, they would have sued him.]
Bob Sr. was 'likable' as well, but couldn't manage money very well. Like most democrats.