Coal: Tom Corbett for, well, uh forgetting to report the house he and his wife purchased in Hilton Head home for $265,000. Does anyone in this administrating vacation in Pennsylvania?
Candy: Barry Schoch for staying the course and navigating transportation legislation through a phalanx of inertia roadblocks.
Coal: Barry Schoch for bringing back WAMs.
Candy: Joe Scarnatti for making seventy miles an hour a legislative priority. What a refreshing change from the malaise of the 1970s and spiking gas prices.
Coal: The legislature for charging tax payers for bottled water, gym equipment and newspapers. The Senate for hiring a private photographer.
Candy: Potatoes for coming in eight pound bags.
Coal: Kathleen Kane for promoting her sister while investigating patronage at the Turnpike Commission.
Candy: Gubernatorial candidate John Hanger for calling outEnergy Czar Patrick Henderson.
Coal: Lt. Governor James Cawleys wife for using taxpayers dollars to provide security on business trips to New York City.
Candy: The Detroit Lions and the Philadelphia Eagles for the Snow Bowl.
Coal: Supreme Court Justice Ron Castile for running for a ten year term he cant complete.
Coal: Sam Smith for having a fundraiser in Pebble Beach, California and leaving the legislature in the hands of Mike Turzai. Remember when Sam never wanted to leave his groundhog hole?
Candy: The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections for producing an Orie Family Christmas.
Coal: Pitt, Penn State and Temple for spending $6.2 million between 2008-2012 in lobbying Harrisburg lawmakers, and collecting about $3 billion in subsidies. Now thats an education.
Candy: Pittsburgh Pirates for their playoff run.
Coal: The NCAA for pretending to be fair and balanced.
Candy: Bishop McDeviit for reaching the state finals.
Coal: Reform caucus leader Brian Cutler for supporting the annual COLA.
Candy: Nick Foles for becoming a person of interest.
Coal: The legislative budget. Last year the cost to operate this august bodyincreased by $8 million to $307 million. The House spent $178 million, the Senate $96 million.
Candy: Vince Fumo for considering to run for office. He cant run forelected office but he can run forpartyoffice. Hes baaaaack!
Coal: Former Sen. Raph Mustio and current federal indictee who receives a $10,000 monthly pension for being too sick to go to court but healthy enough to be interviewed by the media.
Candy: The 18.5 foot, Pennsylvania grown Douglas fir tree for becoming the White House Christmas Tree. The tree was grown by Christopher Boteka from Crystal Spring Tree Farm in Lehighton.
Coal: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court for blessing redistricting. Enjoy the judicial pay raise fellas.
Photo by Colette Cassinelli