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| - The Johnstown Democrat, who represents three western Centre County municipalities, introduced legislation Tuesday that would use the money budgeted for the pay raise to help low-income families with their heating bills in the months ahead, Wozniak aide Jason Gerard said (Centre Daily Times, November 16, 2005.) Senators from the Pittsburgh area who had taken the extra money, including Jay Costa, D-Forest Hills, Gerald LaValle, D-Beaver, and John Wozniak, D-Johnstown, brusquely refused to answer yesterday when asked whether they would return the money (Post-Gazette, Harrisburg Bureau, Thursday, November 17, 2005.) Senator John Wozniak, who voted for the pay raise and decided to accept it early as "unvouchered expenses," and who bashed legislators who opposed the increase, saying: "They're the ones who voted no and are hiding behind their mothers' skirts. I'm sure there's quite a few of them who crossed their fingers and hoped it would pass without them voting for it" (Centre Daily Times, November 19, 2005.)
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