Jay Costa

==Background==
* (717)-787-7683 	Democrat 	Allegheny 	Will repay
* The Carrick office would not notorize petitions for Mark Rauterkus on July 26, 2006.
==Contacts==
Forest Hills
1501 Ardmore Blvd.
Suite 403
Pittsburgh, PA 15221
(412) 241-6690
Carrick 2306 Brownsville Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15210
(412) 488-6111 	
Homestead, 314 E. Eighth Ave.
Homestead, PA 15120
(412) 565-7536
Harrisburg, Senate Box 203043
Harrisburg, PA 17120-3043, (717) 787-7683
==Issues==
==Insights==
===Rock The Capital===
Senator Costa voted for the 2005 pay raise and accepted “unvouchered expenses.” 
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.
I have nothing more to say to you about the pay raise," Mr. Costa told a reporter (Post-Gazette, Harrisburg Bureau, November 17, 2005.)
“Fourteen of the 25 state senators who took the expense money -- including Jay Costa Jr., D - Forest Hills, and Gerald LaValle, D-Rochester -- have not yet returned it (Post-Gazette, December 2, 2005.)
Several lawmakers who took the unvouchered expenses said it went to pay for home repairs, charities, or, in Sen. Jay Costa's case, student scholarship funds. "It's still my plan," Costa (D-Forest Hills) said. "That's what I am going to do with the money I received earlier from the pay raise" (Pittsburgh Tribune, December 2, 2005.)
==Links==
* Guy Costa
* Costa
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