Brady & Tarnation. It is clear that you both have concerns over the budget impasse we have experienced for the past 6-1/2 months. My question to both of you is: have you expressed your concerns directly to your senator, representative, and the governor?

Funny . . . I've been writing Senator Wagner, Representative Saylor, and Governor Wolf on several occasions since July 2015. Everyone has answered my concerns on several occasions with the exception of Stan Saylor.

My experience with Saylor is that he is kind of a phone it in guy waiting out until he can collect his pension.

I have expressed concern that the budget process is detailed in the state constitution and that has not been followed. Lately my greatest concern is that partisan politics has overridden the serious business of formulating a budget and that has had a negative affect on the people of Pennsylvania. Lately, the responses from Mr. Wagner always seem to devolve into a partisan blame game whereas response fro the governor's office tend to lean towards problem solving and finding reasonable solutions.

But that's just my experience, yours may be different. I always state in my message that I am a registered independent, I always vote, and I will remember this clusterf&@k when I enter the voting booth.

Maybe that's why Saylor doesn't answer . . . If he runs in 2016, he figures he's already lost my vote due to his inaction.

Here's an interesting perspective on the state house stalemate in the budget process:

http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/post_5.html