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Gort- This weekend, our family will join millions of others in celebrating America. We will enjoy the glow of fireworks, the taste of barbeque, and the company of good friends. As we all celebrate this weekend, let's also remember the remarkable story that led to this day. Two hundred and thirty-three years ago, our nation was born when a courageous group of patriots pledged ...
Gort42 - Sat 2:26 p.m. - 4 clicks 
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved fr...
Gort42 - Sat 9:29 a.m. - 6 clicks
The announcement came as a huge surprise to just about everyone — the expectation was that Gov. Palin would announce her decision not to run for reelection in 2010 (presumably so she could prepare to be a candidate in the 2012 presidential election) — not that she planned to step down from her job as governor effective almost immediately: Speculation has swirled for weeks, pe...
Comments From Left Field - Fri 3:37 p.m. - 13 clicks
KTUU in Anchorage, the local NBC affilliate, is reporting that Sarah Palin is about to resign as Alaska's Governor so she can - no shit, Sherlock - run for president in 2012. (Via twolf1 at Oxdown Gazette) Does this woman......
Fact-esque - Fri 1:05 p.m.
I think everybody needs to realize that it’s 2009, and the days of no-show jobs are over.”- Luzerne County Commissioner Maryanne Petrilla ...
Gort42 - Fri 11:56 a.m. - 2 clicks
1) Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) has launched a blog called Childwatch , where they wil "report on breaking news and stimulate discussion about how local and state policies affect children," and cover "child health, child care, education, family economic security and child welfare." Check out their post giving a side by side comparison of the Governor's budget versus the insa...
Young Philly Politics - Fri 10:17 a.m.
Lost in the shuffle of a couple big decisions of the Supreme Court this week was a Antonin Scalia(!) authored opinion that will give Attorneys General an enourmous amount of power to go after absuvie banks. The NYTimes Editorial lays out how the case came about: As the current mortgage crisis was building, banks engaged in a wide array of bad practices. They lent to borrowers who could not ...
Young Philly Politics - Thu 8:55 p.m. - 3 clicks
World leaders have universally condemned the illegal and forcible coup executed in Honduras against the elected President. Because the President is a leftist, the American right will say anything to justify the result. They turn language on its head and call the President elected by the People a “Dictator” and refer to the coup leaders, including unelected judges and generals, as p...
Comments From Left Field - Thu 10:22 a.m. - 13 clicks
From the Los Angeles Times : Karl Malden, one of Hollywood’s strongest and most versatile supporting actors, who won an Oscar playing his Broadway-originated role as Mitch in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” died today. He was 97. Malden starred in the 1970s TV series “The Streets of San Francisco” and was the longtime American Express traveler’s-check spoke...
Comments From Left Field - Wed 5:40 p.m. - 3 clicks
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09182/981107-100.stm Mayor taking applications for city school board seat Wednesday, July 01, 2009 By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is accepting applications from District 2 residents interested in replacing Heather Arnet on the city school board. Ms. Arnet resigned yesterday, a year and a half into her four-year term, citing responsibili...
Pittsburgh Women's Blogging Society - Wed 4:00 p.m.
Every year I look at the Census population estimates, and every year, I am somewhat surprised that Philly continues to lose population. This year is no different . As New York, and Chicago grow, Philly (along with Baltimore, Pittsburgh and others) keeps shrinking. However, while it sucks to keep losing people, the trends really are starting to look pretty good: The graph is the perce...
Young Philly Politics - Wed 12:57 p.m.
Hey, you remember Sally Kern, right? She's the Oklahoma wingnut who declared that the Pittsburgh city council was controlled by gays . Well here she goes again. In a proclamation titled "Oklahoma Citizen's Proclamation for Morality" and signed "on the second day of July in the year of our Lord Christ Two Thousand and Nine" State Representative Kern declares, among other things, that those si...
2 Political Junkies - Wed 5:42 a.m. - 6 clicks
Remember that Barry Stankus lost the election because he was squeezing a few oranges at the Sunshine Market. Illegal drugs found in two sheriff’s vehicles Feds launch probe of Luzerne County sheriff So drugs were found in two sheriffs’ vehicles which will probably not amount to much. According to Luzerne County Mike Savokinas it happens all the time. The Yonk lists ...
Gort42 - Wed 3:30 a.m. - 6 clicks
(H/t to Think Progress ) Here's the entire clip: Think Progress has a transcript: SPEAKER: So are you going to apologize to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people in Pennsylvania — and all the people in Pennsylvania for those comments about allowing to exist and calling them dysfunctional. EICHELBERGER: No, I think you know my answer to that. Thank you very much. And Sue K...
2 Political Junkies - Tue 6:24 p.m.
There was an effort in Lehigh County to censure Senator Specter for his vote on the Stimulus Bill. Some argued that it wasn't a good idea. Some argued that it might cause Specter to leave the party, which would make it hard for Pat Toomey to win an election against Specter as a Democrat. Of course, I argued against these ludicrous positions. Now the poll numbers are proving the point that ...
The Lehigh Valley Political Blog - Tue 4:49 p.m. - 8 clicks
For: Burgess, Kraus, Motznik, Payne, Peduto, Smith Against: Dowd, Harris, Shields For those who didn’t see it, the discussion before the vote basically went the way you’d imagine: Harris asked the same question half a dozen times, Shields bloviated, etc. Our Overlords kept 30 out the 42 amendments changes suggestions made by Council last week. . ...
2 Political Junkies - Tue 12:03 p.m. - 8 clicks
The PA State Ethics Act, like the Philly one, has a confidentiality clause that makes it a violation of the Act to publicize when you make an ethics complaint. So, if I file an Ethics Act violation against Marc Stier and Sam Durso for boring us all to tears (wait, that isn't covered?), and then I tell all my friends on the twitters and youtube, I have violated the Ethics Act. In Philly, the con...
Young Philly Politics - Tue 10:29 a.m. - 6 clicks
July's hot temperatures begin to heat things up in our relationships with family, friends, and romantic interests. Independent Uranus starts the month with his retrograde journey on 07/01, and we may find ourselves craving more freedom from our existing connections, to do some personal soul searching. We'll be looking for new inspiration and change in our lives, and we set sail on an inner jour...
Pittsburgh Women's Blogging Society - Tue 10:28 a.m. - 4 clicks
crossposted at Philly Labor blog . Janice Churchill sat at the front of the bus by 7.30 Thursday morning, wearing her purple shirt representing that she’s a proud member of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania. She was joining 2,000 other union members, health care workers and citizens from across the state to fight for quality, affordable healthcare for everyone. She was ready with snacks, comfort...
Young Philly Politics - Tue 5:42 a.m. - 6 clicks
Pittsburgh City Council will likely vote on the Amended Act 47 Recovery Plan today. Yesterday in an email blast, Councilor and Finance Chairman Bill Peduto wrote: As of this moment, it is still unclear whether or not City Council will support the plan. The Act 47 coordinators have requested final action before July 1st, when collective bargaining begins for most of the city’s workforce...
2 Political Junkies - Tue 5:41 a.m. - 4 clicks
From Salon.com: The last time the president of the United States marked gay pride month with anything official at the White House, it was June 2006. George W. Bush decided to throw the weight of his office behind a proposal to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage. After all, the fate of Western civilization hung in the balance. " Our policies should aim to strengthen families, not undermine ...
2 Political Junkies - Tue 5:14 a.m.
Feds launch probe of Luzerne County sheriff Nothing will probably come of this just like the debit cards, no-show employees, no bid contracts, 20 year lease, etc. Call me cynical. ...
Gort42 - Tue 1:41 a.m. - 4 clicks
TL: The company hired to reassess Luzerne County property values had argued in court that the county has a contractual obligation to pay the company to manage and defend the county against Hanover Township resident Vic Kopko’s property assessment court challenge. But the county's newly hired legal guns say not so fast. Philadelphia based Elliott Greenleaf & Dean is getting $300+ per ho...
Gort42 - Tue 1:41 a.m.
The Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board released a study today that, somewhat unsurprisingly, has some pretty depressing findings. For example, from the report's release, we see that: The report notes that Greater Philadelphia is able to lure good, high-paying employers to the area, but faces a growing gap between the essential needs of businesses and the skills of the workforce. The pr...
Young Philly Politics - Mon 11:24 a.m.
Over the weekend the democratically-elected President of Honduras was ousted by a coup. The ousted President was a leftist friendly with the likes of Hugo Chavez and the Castro regime in Cuba. So what’s a righty to do when they claim to support democracy but love the result of the Honduran coup? Well, many of these righties - see here and here - support a coup over a democratically-...
Comments From Left Field - Mon 11:24 a.m. - 8 clicks
From Twitter user @Kalahn , we see the poster that seems to be everywhere in Philadelphia these days: As Chris Bowers noted , while some of labor may have fallen in line with Specter, there is a real understanding by many that Specter has sold them out, and if he wants their support, he needs to start singing another song on the Employee Free Choice Act. read more ...
Young Philly Politics - Mon 9:39 a.m. - 4 clicks
It is a mess. I've posted so many places I cannot think anymore. Please go to www.pghlesbian.com for great analysis by the ACLU to understand what a freaking quagmire our County Council has created. Good news is you can still do something. Please put in a call to the man who would be Governor and explain that you do most decidedly not want Allegheny County to pass legislation that would perm...
Pittsburgh Women's Blogging Society - Mon 2:29 a.m. - 4 clicks
Curious email/text message floating around (don't know if you've received it yet). Here's the text I got: Onorato. 4123506500 . Remove language from Human Relations ordinance that allows orgs that get County funding to discriminate. 100 calls on Mo A bit too cryptic for me, but then again I am middle-aged, balding and paunchy - I know I'm no Helmholtz Watson, but I fear I am actually Bernard...
2 Political Junkies - Mon 2:28 a.m. - 7 clicks
The dust hasn't settled on Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan's 2009 mayoral race, and will not until October at the earliest. Come on, he is a stone cold lock, and we all know it. So our very own Vice President, Joe Biden (D-Unofficial part time Scranton Wilkes Barre homeboy) called to ask John Callahan to challenge Charlie Dent. Hey, if the second in command to the commander in chief calls, yo...
The Lehigh Valley Political Blog - Jun 26
Or maybe not . The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations. [...] White House spokesman Ben LaBolt...
Comments From Left Field - Jun 26 - 6 clicks
A lot has happened in the past week in regards to the PA Senate race: First, a new Keystone Poll shows Arlen Specter is not all that popular: The strong backing of Democratic Party leaders has done little to change slumping public support for the party's newest convert, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter. Only 28 percent of all those surveyed say that he deserves re-election, according to the latest ...
Young Philly Politics - Jun 26 - 2 clicks
The Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition (GPUAC) organized a rally of a few hundred people, in Philadelphia's Love Park, to encourage the Pennsylvania state legislature to fund crime prevention programs, instead of allocating funding for prisons. I was requested to speak at this rally, as the Director of the Center for the Prevention of School-Aged Violence at Drexel University. Accor...
DrChuckSpeaks - Jun 25 - 4 clicks
Mike Buffer has a great story in the CV about Luzerne County government payroll policies. According to county payroll records some of the top county managers never take a day off. Deputy Sheriff Carl Zawatski hasn't taken a day off in a year and a half. Deputy Treasurer Dominick DePolo missed only 3 hours since 2006. Deputy Clerk of Courts Tom Pizano hasn't missed a day of work in 3...
Gort42 - Jun 25 - 3 clicks
The hysteria about the the Fairness Doctrine being reimposed by the Government that makes the Dittoheads grab their guns was somehow forgotten when the same people demand that ABC include opposing views when the network had the President answer questions about his health care plan. Anyway Watch the video ...
Gort42 - Jun 25 - 2 clicks
(NOTE: From some conservatives in the State of Delaware with some edits by me.) What does a trillion dollars look like? How about 12 trillion? All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"... ?????? A billion dollars...A hundred billion dollars...Eight hundred billion dollars...One TRILLION dollars...What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so man...
The Lehigh Valley Political Blog - Jun 24 - 2 clicks
The state of American journalism has been bad since newspaper editors first started going easy on Reagan because advertisers complained and Richard Viguerie plastered their offices with direct mail solicited astroturf. But since the advent of Fox and ETV, it......
Fact-esque - Jun 24
Just confirmed this with Allegheny County Council staff. The Human Relations Commission ordinance which will include sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression as protected classes countywide will be on the agenda for the July 1, 2009 hearing. The January 15 hearing on this ordinance drew a record-breaking crowd of 150 attendees, most in favor of the ordinance. My information is ...
Pittsburgh Women's Blogging Society - Jun 24 - 3 clicks
Bram Reichbaum of The Pittsburgh Comet blog spoke at today's Pittsburgh City Council meeting today during Public Comment. He applauded Council for deciding to put their meetings on the Internet, but asked them to make the video downloadable. He explained that while Allegheny County Council has video of their meetings available to view, it is not downloadable and therefore not editable. ...
2 Political Junkies - Jun 24 - 3 clicks
WILKES-BARRE -..." I have been informed by the proper authorities that the matter into the debit card situation has been closed," Luzerne County Commissioner Greg Skrepenak wrote in a May 11 letter to Acting Controller AJ Martinelli . "There were no criminal findings." Martinelli denies the US Attorney has informed him that the investigation is closed and US Attorn...
Gort42 - Jun 24
SCRANTON – Luzerne County Judge Michael Toole ’s tipstaff Tom Marino testified for more than 1 hour Tuesday before a federal grand jury investigating corruption within the county. He was issued a subpoena on June 1. The Feds are looking into money Participant 1 Robert Powell paid to Toole. Zen says it was $82,000 for his services for refusing to rule on subpoenas issued by then Con...
Gort42 - Jun 24
Approximately 100 gathered Tuesday evening in Market Square to show support for the democratic movement now underway in Iran and to honor those who have lost their lives in this struggle. The crowd was a mix of old and young; Persian and non Persian. Many greeted each other with "salam"as the vigil grew. A poem was read in honor of Neda Agha Soltan, the 26-year old woman shot in the heart ...
2 Political Junkies - Jun 23
From the New York Times : On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But privately, newly released tapes reveal, he expressed ambivalence. Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion ...
2 Political Junkies - Jun 23 - 2 clicks
June 14th PST ITEM : I'll be featuring the best artists (IMHO) I saw at the Three Rivers Arts Festival all this week. This is Mr. Hooper . He's from Nashville. Looks like he's ready for the cover of Juxtapoz. ...
Three Rivers Online - Jun 23 - 3 clicks
Tom Tomorrow brings up an interesting point in his most recent cartoon . About the conservatives who are criticizing President Obama for not speaking out more forcefully in support of the protesters in Iran, he says that some of the same folks, not too long ago, were advocating mass death in Iran. Remember this? Or remember how William Kristol said that Bush might bomb Iran if he t...
2 Political Junkies - Jun 23
Check out the spelling of conference on the banner. It reminds me of this guy. The TL and the CV ran stories last week about Alcalde de Hazleton Lou Barletta being invited to speak at Pat Buchanan's anti-immigrant gabfest along with some of the heavy hitters of the lunatic fringe such as Phyllis Schlafly , former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, anti-affirmative action ...
Gort42 - Jun 23
So, people are upset because Philadelphia School District CEO, Dr. Arlene Ackerman wants to dismiss a few folks…. Look, I know that comprehensive school support-reform is a touchy issue. It's uber-political and everybody has an opinion. Therefore, you shouldn't be shocked if I decide to share a few opinions of my own on this issue. Disclaimer: I am not a parent, nor a primary or secondary sc...
DrChuckSpeaks - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
It's an interesting day for the New York Times Editorial Board. While it has been stumbling around the last couple of years trying to find its feet as conservatism collapsed and it was faced with a Democratic president aping Republican......
Fact-esque - Jun 22 - 3 clicks
pa2010.com has ranked Pennsylvania's Top 10 Political Consultants and our own local Guru made the list. 8. Ed Mitchell (D) One of the Pennsylvania’s most effective political spokesman, Mitchell has guided some of the state’s most embattled Democrats through reelection. He works for both Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-11) and Congressman John Murtha (D-12), both of whom have found themselves ...
Gort42 - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
Pittsburgh Peace Vigil Iran Elections Please bring a flashlight Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Time: 8:00-9:30 PM (dark). Location: Market Square, downtown Pittsburgh, PA. Details: This will be a quiet/silent show of support for the historic democratic movement now underway in Iran, and for those who have given their lives in the name of their cause. The intention of this grassroots vigil is t...
Pittsburgh Women's Blogging Society - Jun 22
From Whitehouse.gov : The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights. As I said in Cairo,...
2 Political Junkies - Jun 22 - 2 clicks
Change arrived officially as the 2oth Amendment dictated the end of George W Bush's reign of terror on our Constitution. President Obama was spectacular in his first speech as the 44th President of the United States of America. I am mostly pessimistic with the content of those speeches, but President Obama has never taken me as one who speaks in terms of promises he has any intention of not mak...
Declarations of Pride - Jun 20
If you haven't already been, I encourage you to visit WhiteHouse.gov . President Barack Obama has laid out in great detail his plans for America and the details that outline our hopeful "Change." I am not usually one for these kind of lists from politicians, but it is one thing to list an "agenda" on your campaign site. It is something entirely different to list an "Agenda" on your WhiteHouse...
Declarations of Pride - Jun 20 - 2 clicks
There is one fundamental frustration that the grass roots has with GOP leaders. The base of the GOP sees a persistent lack of initiative and a constant defensive posture by the Party and most of its elected officials. And, it is quite demoralizing when many seem to consistently act out of some sort of inferiority complex or shame about GOP principles. But in war, business and politics, initiative...
The Lehigh Valley Political Blog - Jun 20 - 3 clicks
Pennsylvania State Senator John Eichelberger (R-PA-30th) on gays and same-sex marriage: They’re not being punished. We’re allowing them to exist , and do what every American can do. We’re just not rewarding them with any special designation. Read more at Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents and 2 Political Junkies and then take action : You can sign a petition at Keystone Pro...
Pittsburgh Women's Blogging Society - Jun 20
Roeder. The man accused of killing Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller said Thursday from the county jail that he's "being treated as a criminal" even though he hasn't been convicted. Poplawski. In his first interview since he was charged with the April 4 slayings of three Pittsburgh police officers, Richard Poplawski today complained about his accommodations at the Allegheny County Jai...
Froth Slosh B'Gosh - Jun 19
The future direction of the GOP? Some discussion on the show "Business Matters"... Who will determine the future of the Republican party? Also, watch GOP State Committeewoman Wanda Mercado-Arroyo on June 29th on Business Matters - Monday, June 29th Why Don't Americans Care? A look at American voter apathy.Alfonso Todd (Lifestyles of the GSS), Esther Lee (NAACP - Bethlehem), Wanda Mercado-Arro...
The Lehigh Valley Political Blog - Jun 19
I received a letter from the Dent campaign. While hearing for years that we "can't move to the right because we won't win elections" it seems that there might be some concerns brewing. For a long time, the "wizards of smart" have assumed that Republicans will vote for a Republican 'no matter what'. It doesn't matter how they vote, or what legislation they support, as long as they are a candidate...
The Lehigh Valley Political Blog - Jun 19
I have simmered, stewed, and am about to explode! I think President Obama has behaved exactly as I expected, and frankly predicted. I was duped, and so were the rest of us. I was an ardent Hillary supporter specifically because I did not trust Obama on issues of gay equality. I threw my support completely behind him, and "hoped" for the best. What we have gotten as a community thus far is muc...
Declarations of Pride - Jun 19
Recently the issue has been raised about how police respond to incidents of domestic violence, spurred by Donna Williams’ story in the Post-Gazette: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09158/975486-53.stm#ixzz0Hlxj The Citizens Police Review Board is meeting next week to review the particulars of this case. The wonderful group of women who volunteered to help change the Pgh. Police Dept’s int...
Pittsburgh Women's Blogging Society - Jun 17
It seems that Lehigh County Executive candidate Scott Ott might be in this thing to win. He hit the ground running and had a respectable showing during the primary. Sure, he was unchallenged, but he put up a respectable vote total, especially when compared to the incumbent, Don Cunningham. There is no doubt that Don Cunningham is in office, like so many Democrats across the country, because the G...
The Lehigh Valley Political Blog - Jun 16 - 2 clicks
Two ex-judges denied pensions Former Luzerne County judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan are not entitled to their pensions and could be liable to reimburse the state $4.3 million for higher juvenile placement costs it says are tied to the kickback scheme the jurists engaged in, the State Employees’ Retirement System has determined . Conahan has bee...
Gort42 - Jun 16
North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan made an ill-publicized local appearance this evening to promote his new book, "Take This Job and Ship It : How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America." Around 30 people managed to find out about this and were happy to focus along with the three-term Democrat on the economic crisis "free trade" and corporate welfare have brought to Am...
Lou's List - Jun 15
While the average Pittsburgher was loath to entertain the idea of a fourth mayor in four years--resulting in accidental Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's unopposed Democratic nomination to serve the next two--voters in three City Council districts turned to hotly contested races for those seats to inject some new blood into city government. The desperation of party machine-backed incumbents in two races sh...
Lou's List - Jun 15
I'm having a lot of trouble making sense of the results in the statewide judicial races. Roughly a quarter of the votes statewide on Election Day came from Philadelphia, which was holding a hotly contested mayoral primary. This resulted in just one Philly candidate being nominated for any of the four Democratic nominations up for grabs. That was Superior Court Judge Seamus McCaffrey , who finishe...
Lou's List - Jun 15
With the U.S. mired in Iraq and Democrats searching for a way out, surely the person arguably more responsible than any other in Congress for extricating our nation from the similar quagmire in Vietnam could make a considerable contribution to the intra-party debate as we move toward 2008. You may not know it, but that very man is in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but repres...
Lou's List - Jun 15
While the political waters were roiled in the City of Pittsburgh, things were quiet at the county level as the primary results rolled in. County Executive Dan Onorato cruised to victory over longshot challenger Rick Swartz, who failed to meet even the most tempered expectations in the Dem contest. And while GOP County Councilman Matt Drozd of Ross launched a late write-in drive on behalf of his...
Lou's List - Jun 15
Democrats' optimism as we enter 2008 shows in the field of five candidates vying to represent the party in a bid to unseat three-term GOP Congressman Tim Murphy of Upper St. Clair. It also illustrates Murphy's perceived vulnerability after allegations of ethical lapses and questionable spending and six years of a staunchly pro-Bush voting record. Past Dem primary fields in the district have dr...
Lou's List - Jun 15
On March 9. 2008, the Erie Peace Initiative held a peace rally to mark the 5th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. After the March, all US Congressional candidates for the PA-3 legislative district were invited to speak in a candidate forum at Cauley Auditorium in Erie PA. All four Democratic Party candidates and the Independent candidate attended. Republican incumbent Phil English did ...
Lake Erie Alliance for Democracy - Jun 15 - 3 clicks
Lower Pa Sales tax below the States around Pennsylvania then set up outlet malls near every major highway along the north at where between 81 and 29 in Susqueahana county, rt 15 in Tioga county,rt 219 in Mckean county 82 in warren county and 90 in Erie county and rt 220 in Bradford county. This as an example and do this at every major entry road along the Pa Board with Ny, Ohio and Maryland and Ne...
Green Dog Dem - Jun 15
Bush more or less said today that we need to invade countries all over the middle east and install democracies. So that we can remove the atmosphere that makes people hate us. Bush more or less said today that we need to go all over the middle east and Depose governments. So where are we going to invade Next Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, Barain,Kuwait most of our allies in the middle east are dicato...
Green Dog Dem - Jun 15
It was kinda disturbing looking at this list realizing that over the past yr I had driven over a number of these bridges sometimes several times a day. Especially the Highly Dangerous Gen Thos R Morgan brige in Slatington. A councilwoman in Slatington had told me how dangerous the bridge was but and the state kept refusing to fund replacing it but now I feel lucky the bride didn't fall out from un...
Green Dog Dem - Jun 15
In an up and back vote count that wasn't settled till monday, Whitehall Twp Commissioner Thomas Slonaker seems to have eeked out win in the race for Lehigh county controller (and I mean eeked out) over the current Lehigh county controller Paul Shaffer by 23 votes. On election night it looked like Slonaker had originally won by 278 votes 22,280 to 22,002 then the next morning it had flipped to a 6...
Green Dog Dem - Jun 15 - 2 clicks
The close to 6 year resistance by the Bush Adm and republican lead congress has put American is a bad future economic position. Instead spreading the cost of conversion to a fossil fuel alternative or alternative the republicans have fought tooth and nail against it. Now, we are in the max pain position of having to in short accord to make massive changes to our environmental situation or risk the...
Green Dog Dem - Jun 15
This is a campaign blog. One of the few good lines I ever heard from the comic Gallagher was this, If the opposite of Pro is Con then the opposite of Progress must be Congress. Now, I dont know where Gallagher lives but Ill bet that his district has a Representative a lot like Bill Shuster (R PA09) Cleaning up the mess left to us by Bush/Cheney/McCain/ Shuster, et all, will require di...
shuck shuster - Jun 15
. . .was left in response to my previous post. It is unfortunate that Rep. Shuster continues to support the President in this wrong war. He neglects to mention that there have been 3 previous troop surges to the level that is now advocated by the President. None of these previous troop surges has met with success. Yet, Mr. Shuster continues to ape the rhetoric of the President with "stay the cour...
shuck shuster - Jun 15 - 3 clicks
[[EMOTICON:GOODGRIEF2]] May 18, 2007, Billy released the following statement. Washington, DC Congressman Bill Shuster released the following statement on the Senate immigration reform legislation introduced by Senator Kennedy: I am strongly opposed the Kennedy immigration plan introduced in the Senate. This legislation is nothing more than amnesty for over 20 million illegal aliens alread...
shuck shuster - Jun 15
[[EMOTICON:GOODGRIEF1]] Lets see, Bill Shuster voted against raising the minimum wage, He voted against implementing the 9/11 commissions recommendations, and he voted against a bill that would allow Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices and now its come to my attention that he also voted (HR6, Vote 40)to allow Big Oil to keep billions of tax dollars despite the billions in pr...
shuck shuster - Jun 15
According to the website of the Commonwealth Department of State election returns, Democratic challenger Tony Barr received more votes in the April 22nd primary than did the incumbent Bill Shuster (R PA09). Tony Barr received 57,489 votes, while Shuster received only 56,921 votes. While hardly a landslide, the 1% Barr edge going into the general election makes an upset in the 9th District a dist...
shuck shuster - Jun 15
A Republican Memorial In order to show his Patriotism, as a testament of his appreciation for the sacrifice made by the victims of Flight 93, Bill Shuster (R PA-09) wants to expose the citizens of StonyCreek Township PA to toxic exposure to Manganese. STONYCREEK TOWNSHIP PA--With America preparing to mark the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, there are mixed emotions in Somerset County:...
shuck shuster - Jun 15
Shame, Shuster, Shame H.R 976 Roll Call Vote# 906 Bill Shuster (R PA-09) Nay Mr. Shuster you owe an apology. Not to the seniors whose Social Security benefits you wish to privatize, not to the soldiers that you keep captive in a combat zone, not to the millions of hard working Americans to whom you would deny the benefits of collective bargaining. No Sir, This time you owe an apology to chil...
shuck shuster - Jun 15 - 2 clicks
This is a campaign Blog. Well, unless the something extraordinary happens in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania, it looks like we got ourselves a presidential nominee. Now, lets look at Congress. If you live in PA, you know and despise the name of Bill Shuster, but for some reason people vote for him anyway, lets look at how he votes. Tony Barr is a special education teacher from Claysbu...
shuck shuster - Jun 15 - 3 clicks
On his own website Bill Shuster touts the need to expand the use of coal to relieve Americas energy woes. This will bring big bucks to the mining companies and energy companies that line Bill Shusters campaign coffers. Yet on April 30th of this year, Bill Shuster told the men and women who have to actually dig the coal that they are on their own. Roll Call vote #233 was on passage of The Combust...
shuck shuster - Jun 15 - 2 clicks
On April 13th an editorial appeared in the Bedford Gazette in Bill Shusters name. Ive heard the man speak and its clear, to me anyway, that Karl Rove or one of his mindless lackeys actually wrote this and someone in Billys office simply sent it along. Billys ghost writer accuses Congressional Democrats of having no direction at all. In fairness, things might very well look that way. However, i...
shuck shuster - Jun 15 - 2 clicks
H R 976 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY 18-Oct-2007 1:17 PM QUESTION: Passage, Objections of the President Notwithstanding BILL TITLE: Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Bill Shuster (R PA-09) "Nay" Roll Call Vote 982 Or How Shuster stole healthcare. With apologies to Dr. Suess, All the kids in Central PA liked SCHIP healthcare a lot But Shuster-Grinch up DC DID NOT!!!! Th...
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Part two of Bill Shuster's trilogy of terror is the Global war on terror. Here it is, the classic example of how Bill Shuster plans to frighten his way back to Congress, the GWOT. Part of Billys plan to scare the knickers off of PA-09 voters is to dredge up all the tragic episodes of the recent past, including, of course 9/11. His purpose is to conjure up not only the tragic images of those bla...
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I consider it my duty to stand up in Washington for the hardworking men and women employed in manufacturing. Bill Shuster Why? Oh, why? then Mr. Shuster did you vote to strip millions of American workers of their over time protection. Vote to block the stripping of overtime protection: HR 2660 , Vote #351, 7/10/2003 Heres how Bill Shuster supports hardworking men and women 2006 Representativ...
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[[EMOTICON:GOODGRIEF2]] January 8, 2007 On Friday January 5th, 2007, at 12:59 PM; Bill Shuster displayed the kind of congressman he has always been when he voted against earmark reform. HRes 6: Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Tenth Congress. The Question:On the Adoption of Title IV (Fiscal Responsibility)Section 404(of Title IV) was titled Earmark Refor...
shuck shuster - Jun 15
Billy, you cannot be serious. In the October 8th edition of the Altoona Mirror, our bad boy Billy, or at least his ghost writer, is trying to defend his vote against the SCHP program. Of course, he blames the Democrats, of course, he raises the specter of illegal immigrants, but his math is fuzzy and his reasoning flawed. The Democrats plan expands the program to families in excess of 300 perce...
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