Yes and no..The incumbent candidates were of course "Christians" and mostly "political virgins"..they didn't want to get down and dirty on this..radio ads ran for three days before the election that mentioned the 19 percent pay raise..the news media ran a front-page Sunday spread that mentioned it even before the radio ads..there was a spy in the incumbents camp reporting back to Dover CARES and I think that led to the news story where a union rep tried to rationalize the demand as a "starting point."
The Monday night rally was driven in part by Dover CARES fears about the issue. The issue that was at least partially mentioned in the literature that the incumbents put out at the last minute...Ronald Reagan once said that politics is like "seeing the world with its pants down."...that's something that was hard for some of these Christian people to understand. This 19 percent pay raise could have won it for them because the anger of the voters in PA yesterday was driven by the 16 to 54 percent pay raises given legislators and legislative leaders, judges and the governor's staff in a middle of the night vote last July by our legislature. Two
Supreme Court Justices were up for retention. Democrat Nigro was voted out by a 30-thousand margin statewide. Republican Newman survived by 100-thousand votes because of Tom Ridge phone calls that went out Monday. The margin against the judges was 2-1 in the Dover area yesterday. The legislature is desperately trying to repeal the raise now before they face the wrath of the voters next year. But back on Dover they should have shoved this 19 percent pay raise in the voters face yesterday and they would have gotten the 100 or less votes they needed to win.
The incumbents may not have understood, but it appears the voters did.
These so-called Christians and political virgins engaged in an under-the-table scheme to wedge creationism into public school science classes, then committed perjury in an effort to cover it up.