The Campaign for a Fresh Start, a political committee formed by Tom Wolf, was denied access to work records and contracts of Ron Tomalis, the former Education Secretary.
The committee had been trying to gain access to the records from Tomalis’ 15-month tenure, when he was paid $139,000 a year. They wanted progress reports, employee evaluations, performance reviews, and performance improvement plans. The documents, however, are not available under the Right to Know Law.
Tomalis resigned from his position as special advisor to the Governor in August, after a report by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette revealed he had done little work despite being paid a hefty salary.
“Tom Wolf’s campaign is seeking documents they know either do not exist or, by law, are confidential and cannot be released, to distract from Wolf’s proposal to raise Pennsylvania’s income tax”, said Chris Pack, communications director for Tom Corbett.
Larry McComsey, the Education Department’s open records officer said, “All other records sought are exempt from access under the open records law.”
Fresh Start, however, does not believe Corbett is telling the truth.
“It shows they’re covering something up,” said Mike Mikus, spokesman for Fresh Start. “They’ve yet to show Ron Tomalis actually worked to support that salary. If Ron Tomalis was a real employee, how is it possible that he lacks a single employment document? It is long past time for Tom Corbett to explain to Pennsylvania taxpayers why he wasted their money on a ghost employee.”
The Education Department has released time-stamped records showing Tomalis’ employee pass was used regularly to log in and out of the Capitol garage during his time as Education Secretary.
Carolyn Dumaresq, Acting Education Secretary, previously vouched for Tomalis and said he was working when he held the position.
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The heck with logging in and out of the garage. Check how many times and when he logged into his Commonwealth computer. Check how many key strokes were done on his computer. ASk employees to sign witness statements about his comings and goings. The capability is there and has been used and there is probably other stuff that can be checked that is secret.
The Pulitzer Prize for blogging does not exist. But deep corruption in both political parties does. Hats off to PAINDY1 for his tireless, relentless efforts to expose the education mafia ring which is stealing from our children to line their own pockets.
Pulitzer? I’m sure you guys assume he was driving into work to check for new porn sent by Fina. Give it a break.
You have to give it to PAINDY1: he was onto the Tomalis scam like a hound dog on convicts. If only we had an independent, industrious press corps, this story would have been exposed long ago. Instead, a lonely, courageous voice from the wilderness through persistence verging on obsession has unveiled the cancer at the heart of the education establishment. Where are the prosecutors paid for with taxpayer salaries? Where are the police investigations, the grand juries, the editorial boards? PAINDY1 has earned the BLOGGER PULITZER AWARD.
“They couldn’t produce them for (former Revenue Secretary) Tom Wolf if you asked them.” -Mike Barley
Well then Mike, ask for them.
Tomalis didn’t work, so their couldn’t be any work records for him.
THE MYSTERY THAT IS RON TOMALIS IS A SERIOUS MATTER!! WHAT WAS TOMALIS COVERING UP? WHY DOESN’T DUMARESQ RELEASE THE TOMALIS EMAILS? THIS ENTIRE EPISODE SHOWS HOW CORBETT PLAYED FAST AND LOOSE WTIH TAXPAYER MONEY. WHY DIDN’T CORBETT USE HIS CAMPAIGN FUNDS TO BUY TOMALIS’S SILENCE?
Corbett’s campaign manager, Mike Barley, said the Wolf campaign “asked for documents they knew didn’t exist. They couldn’t produce them for (former Revenue Secretary) Tom Wolf if you asked them.”
Read more: http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/6957149-74/tomalis-education-records#ixzz3G83p9RHz