The Montgomery County Republican Committee has called on state Rep. Rick Taylor, D-151st Dist., to reimburse the state for what it terms illegal "bonus" money state workers received for working on Taylor's 2006 campaign, according to reporter Margaret Gibbons.

Montco GOP Chairman Robert J. Kerns said Taylor should pay back the part of the $15,185 bonus in state money that state legislative aide Rachel Manzo received for work she did on Taylor's campaign, including serving as the campaign manager in the couple of weeks leading up to the November 2006 election, Gibbons says.

Manzo, the executive director of the state House Democratic Policy Committee, was among the dozen Democrats arrested last week on political corruption charges involving the payment of "bonuses" to state employees for their work on Democratic campaigns, Gibbons writes.

Taylor won the 151st District House seat in 2006, the same year Democrats took a majority in the House after 12 years of Republican control.

The indictments handed down last week by two separate grand juries allege an elaborate scheme orchestrated by top Democratic leaders to illegally use taxpayer funds to support Democratic campaigns.

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