From the Horse's Mouth

Ryan Shafik, a former aide for Republican State Sen. Stewart Greenleaf (12th district) is currently running for the state legislature in Maryland. In a recent newspaper profile ("Shafik favors term limits, opposes slots," by Loni Ingraham Towson Jeffersonian Aug. 8, 2006), he says this of Pennsylvania politics in general:

"but I saw how the system works, whether it's Pennsylvania or Maryland. It's the inside baseball that constituents don't see. It's not pretty.

"It's the way that money is spent. That's what's flawed. It's done without the basis of need, without serious evaluation. They keep forgetting it's not their money."

Democrat Jeff Albert is running against Greenleaf, who has been in the state senate for 28 years. An interview with Albert was posted on this blog earlier this summer.