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To: jlallen who wrote (716319)	12/2/2005 9:32:55 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Looks like there is plenty to go around, JL. (No political party winds up being 'pure of heart and clean of hands' for too long....) Corruption is always attracted to power, because power affords the corrupt the means to enrich themselves, and disadvantage their enemies.

To: jlallen who wrote (716319)	12/2/2005 9:35:15 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 769670

Troubled ex-legislator reverses staff raises CORVALLIS -- After a week of heavy criticism, former state Rep. Kelley Wirth rescinded the pay raises she gave staff members after she was charged with possession of meth. The action came a day after Wirth resigned from the Legislature. "Even though I still believe my former staff deserved to be rewarded for their hard work, I must listen to all my former constituents and the Oregon taxpayers who gave me the opportunity and honor to serve them in the first place," Wirth said in a statement. Records showed that Wirth has listed her mother, Kathleen Panknin, as an aide for more than two years. Wirth paid her mother $3,000 a month in September, $3,500 in mid-October and $6,500 in November. Two other Wirth aides got $250 a week raises. Wirth, 40, a Corvallis Democrat, announced her resignation from the Legislature on Oct. 14, a day after being cited for possession of what Salem police said was a small amount of methamphetamine found in her car.