Fallout from older stories

It comes in two flavors today:

1. From the pay-hike furor, we have more chat about giving money back from expenses already claimed -- who's done it, who's considering it, who remains defiant. (That last group strikes me as amazingly tone-deaf.) On the other side of things, the City Paper starts the speculation about who will replace ousted Justice Nigro on the state Supreme Court bench. (Some Senatorial candidate chat at this link too)
   
   
2. On the news of Specter defending Owens, a Daily News letter-writer questions the Senator's priorities for his time, and several letters at the Inquirer (from inside and outside the area) join the chorus and express disbelief at the whole spectacle.