Last Check Cashed; Voice Back

Washington PA Observer Reporter
6 November 2010

A little more than five years ago, Consol Energy vice president and Washington County Chamber of Commerce secretary-treasurer Joseph Cerenzia agreed to give the Prosperity Fire Company $150,000, in payments of $30,000 a year for five years, if I personally would agree to not write anything negative about Consol Energy in the Observer-Reporter's letters to the editor. The good news is the Prosperity Fire Company just received its last payment, and I just received my First Amendment constitutional rights back. Nothing negative there!

J. Scott Finch
Prosperity

The writer is a Morris Township supervisor.