Specific names and districts have emerged as targets for the chopping block, as the deadline for Pa. legislative redistricting draws nearer.
Democrat David Wecht of Allegheny County is the first statewide candidate on television in the 2011 cycle. The Superior Court hopeful’s campaign today began airing a cutesy 30 second ad on broadcast and cable in southwestern Pa.
David Wecht goes on TV; Pat Toomey gets occupied; and the Inky makes a pair of endorsements.
Representative Brendan Boyle (D-Phila/Montgomery) is threatening to sue in federal court against Pa. Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi’s plan to change the way that electoral college votes are allocated in Pennsylvania.
About a dozen protesters, armed with makeshift posters and a lifesize cutout of U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, gathered outside Toomey’s Allentown office Monday morning where they plan to stay until Toomey agrees to meet with them or at least hear them out over the phone. Borrowing from the Occupy movements, the group, organized by the American Dream Movement, is made up of unemployed workers and union workers upset with Toomey’s votes in Washington — most recently his “no” on President Obama’s jobs package and then a smaller version to employ teachers and law enforcement.
The redistricting maps are on their way; PA Reps sponsor anti-terrorism law; Toomey tackles contraceptives & forced sterilization; Cantor canceled his Philly speech; and another bad poll for Obama.
According to multiple sources close to the process, the Legislative Reapportionment Commission (LRC) will hold a meeting on Monday, October 31st. They are said to be planning the vote on the new district maps for the PA House and Senate.
Last week, four of the most moderate legislators in Congress introduced bipartisan and bicameral legislation that would update and add to existing federal law regarding the loss of nationality for American citizens who engage in terrorist activities directed against the United States.
Sen. Toomey says that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act forces members of religious entities to violate their strongly-held beliefs or potential pay a heavy lump some.
U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, the Republican majority leader in the U.S. House, canceled his scheduled speech at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business because if was going to be open to the first 300 people who showed up. Given that hundreds of Occupy Philadelphia protesters were planning to march from City Hall to the campus to protest the speech, that could have been lively audience. UPDATED with statement from Pa. Dems.
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