No one has to wonder, two years after the Legislature's outrageous pay raise, if voter anger has subsided over the public-be-damned antics of Harrisburg. Not if you've been following the Post-Gazette's reports on pay bonuses given last year to state House staff members.

The latest revelation, reported in Sunday's editions by staff writers Tracie Mauriello and Dennis Roddy, showed that departing state Rep. Mike Veon, the No. 2 leader in the Democratic caucus, spread around bonuses of nearly $80,000 to a dozen staffers at his Beaver Falls office.

One employee was on the job for only three months in 2006 (although she had worked for Mr. Veon between 1998 and 2004). She got a $5,000 bonus.

Another got a bonus of $10,065, although he was on leave from his state job last year between mid-March and June.

A third employee received a $20,380 bonus. She was also reimbursed for purchases made for the Veon re-election campaign during the spring and summer of 2006; she did not leave the state payroll in the course of the year.

The $79,215 in parting gifts doled out by the defeated lawmaker to 12 full-time staff members and an intern were nearly double what Senate Republicans spread through their entire caucus. The money -- all public dollars, of course -- is part of the nearly $2 million in legislative staff bonuses that is the focus of an investigation by a state grand jury.

At issue is whether some of the bonuses, in fact, represented pay for work on political campaigns -- a violation of state law. One of the revelations by the Post-Gazette was that of the 100 employees who got the largest bonuses, 80 had volunteered for or contributed to Democratic campaigns.

That's been enough to keep the grand jury and state attorney general busy, and each new discovery is enough to enrage the voters with news that the same culture that hatched the pay raise is still afoot in the Capitol.