ALL RIGHT, from now on, the description of the Pennsylvania Legislature in any encyclopedia should read: “the place where things have been so screwed up for so long that they seem normal.”

This occurred to me as I listened to state Attorney General Tom Corbett announce his corruption case against state Rep. John Perzel and seven others.

Corbett says they used up to $10 million in tax dollars to develop sophisticated computer systems for chosen Republicans to use in election campaigns.

But it wasn’t the criminal charges against Perzel and company that got me. It was the supposedly legitimate state computer contracts Perzel allegedly used as cover for his political software project.

Corbett explained that there were bona fide state contracts for companies to develop software “for constituent services that would be available to all House Republican members and their staffs.”

Whoa, I’m thinking. Back up there a second.

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