Poll Shows Falling Approval Amid Bonusgate

They’ve got a 32% approval rating. I’m not complaining – Congress hovers around 9-10%.

The state legislature is suffering from dismal public-approval ratings, and three out of four Pennsylvania voters believe it will not take steps to clean up corruption in the wake of the Bonusgate scandal.

Those are among the results of the latest Quinnipiac University poll, which also found that few voters – only one in 10 – believe that House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese (D., Greene) should keep his leadership post.

“Voters are fed up with the legislature,” said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Connecticut university’s polling institute. “It just seems to be one continuous crime story after another.”


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