Jack Wagner

==Background==
* Auditor General of PA
: *Auditor General Jack Wagner is responsible for ensuring that all state money is spent legally and properly. He is the Commonwealth's elected independent fiscal watchdog, conducting both financial and performance audits. The Department of the Auditor General produces more than 5,500 audits per year. To learn more about the Department of the Auditor General, taxpayers are encouraged to visit the Auditor General's website at http://www.auditorgen.state.pa.us.
* Was PA Senator, 42nd.
* Was on Pittsburgh's City Council
==Issues==
* Immediate Discontinuation of Medicaid Viagra to Sex Offenders, letter send May 26, 2005
:: Don't you feel safer now.
===Feud: Jack Wagner & Tom Murphy===
Wagner ran and lost to Murphy in a mayoral primary. Remember Wagner having black and gold campaign signs? 
Wagner doesn't appear to be a supporter of Murphy's fiscal policies as Pittsburgh mayor. 
Wagner's state senate web site discusses Pgh's financial crisis from the point of view of the Pa state senate, which has to bail pgh out. You should read whatever Wagner says about Murphy and Pgh and develop an opinion about what Wagner believes. If you run in Wagner's old district, it would be helpful if you could say, "I've read Jack Wagner's ideas to bail out Pgh and I agree and or disagree with parts of it for the following reasons. I have skimmed thru a lot of Wagner's stuff on Pgh debt, etc and I generally agree with him, for whatever that's worth. Wagner is as fiscally conservative as a Democrat can be. He is going to be auditor general, after all.
===Wagner's bailout efforts in PA Senate===
* Wagner voted, along with Jim Ferlo, against the final legislation that became the November 2004 bailout.
Did Wagner consider the bailout terms too generous to Pgh or too draconian? His reasons may have been opposite those of Ferlo.
==Links==
* Pennsylvania Department of the Auditor General
* VIPs
* PAT
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