A coalition of government reform groups wants Gov. Ed Rendell to call a special session of the Legislature to act on what it calls “integrity issues,” such as campaign finance limits, reducing the size of the Legislature, imposing term limits for legislators, banning lobbyists from taking lawmakers to dinner and giving them gifts, and ending lame-duck sessions in November.

“Today is Day 921 since the pay raise of July 2005, and our government has done virtually nothing in law or [changes to the] constitution to improve integrity and prevent more of the scandals on parade that we have seen since the pay raise,” complained Tim Potts, co-founder of Democracy Rising PA.

League of Women Voters official Bonita Hoke called for changing the way legislative districts are redrawn after each 10-year census is completed.

“We need [impartial] redistricting reform to end the kind of bipartisan, incumbent-protective gerrymandering that describes the current map [of districts] drawn in 2001,” she said.