politics

"Today I settle all family business, so don't tell me you're innocent."

January 6, 2008

Tweet After what has seemed like an eternity, the Washington County Democratic Party now has a duly-elected chairman. George Vitteck from Canton Township, who is a constituent and a good friend, handily defeated incumbent Milan Marinkovich in a hotly disputed election that took eighteen months and significant litigation to complete. I can now say without [...]

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"It Was A Very Good Year … "

January 4, 2008

TweetI have been serving as your state representative for a full year now, and I can say without hesitation that I have learned more in this past year than I did through four years of college and three years of law school combined. Here are five things that I have learned since being sworn in [...]

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Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

December 15, 2007

Tweet Finally, after 18 long months, it appears as though there will be a lawfully elected Chairman of the Washington County Democratic Party. A court order was recently signed acknowledging that the June 2006 Leadership Election was not conducted in accordance with the by-laws. The case, which is both well-travelled and well-documented, has been to [...]

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What We Accomplished in the State House This Week

December 6, 2007

TweetI’m not even going to bother explaining. Go read it in the paper or something. TweetScridb filter

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Above the Fold and Below the Belt

December 4, 2007

TweetI had mixed emotions this past Sunday as I read the Washington Observer-Reporter, a newspaper that generally does a pretty good job of reporting on what we do with an objective and non-biased point of view. The front page article was a very well-done piece by Linda Ritzer dealing with the concerns involved with the [...]

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Faith Rises From the Ashes

November 30, 2007

TweetIn the past year, two churches in my district have suffered fire damage. In July, the Frankfort Presbyterian Church in Hanover Township, Beaver County caught fire and last week the Langeloth Community United Presbyterian Church in Smith Township suffered a similar fate. I am not a member of either church, but I can only imagine [...]

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"Two hour delay, no morning committee meetings."

November 14, 2007

TweetWe weren’t able to hold any votes up here in Harrisburg yesterday because the giant electronic board that displays information about the current bill as well as our votes was malfunctioning. As a result, there wasn’t much choice but to adjourn the House until they got it fixed. As I was walking back to my [...]

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Gummy Brains? Really, PHEAA? Flipping Gummy Brains?

November 5, 2007

Tweet Will it ever end, PHEAA? Will it ever end? According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PHEAA spent $2.2 million over the past five years on promotional materials, including 150 brass clocks at $22 each, $30 L.L. Bean jackets, 3,000 peppermint candies with its logo on the wrapper and $3,400 worth of gummy brains candy. $3,400.00 [...]

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Shameless Self-Promotion of the Day

November 2, 2007

TweetThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran an article today about a certain State Legislator who is taking up the issue of reforming Pennsylvania’s Power of Attorney law. Sounds like a pretty good guy to me. In fact, I’m giving him the ultra-coveted “Double Thumbs Up from a Guy with a Security Detail Consisting Entirely of Storm Troopers”. [...]

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I just threw up in my mouth a little. Thanks, PHEAA.

October 24, 2007

Tweet While the good folks over at PHEAA were too busy signing their bonus checks and slapping one another on the backside for their unparalleled standards of excellence, they also managed to find another way to screw over students in Pennsylvania. It was reported this week that PHEAA is cutting funding on certain state programs [...]

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