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11/19 Morning Buzz

Harrisburg Capitol stepsThe transit bill failed in the House – twice, Corbett released radio ads, Schwartz unveiled her education plan and Katie McGinty has a new website. Good morning politicos, here’s the Buzz.

Major Transit Bill Fails Twice: The Micozzie Amendment to the $2.5 billion transportation funding bill, its best hope of passage, failed by a vote of 98-103 House Monday night. The amendment failed again on a second vote 89-112.

Transportation Votes: Here’s Who Switched: A $2.3B transportation funding bill lost by 5 votes on Monday night. In a second try, it lost by 23. Here’s who switched their vote.

PA-12: McClelland Picks Up Four Lawrence Co. Endorsements: McClelland announced her new supporters for the Democratic primary in PA-12 at a press conference in Ellwood this morning.

Schwartz Vows to Increase Higher Ed Funding: In a conference call with reporters, Schwartz said she would increase funding for higher education and establish state assistance for community college graduates who want to pursue a degree at a state system school.

Corbett Campaign Promotes Record with Radio Ads: Accompanying the official campaign announcement tour last week, the Corbett reelection campaign ran two radio ads highlighting the governor’s achievements.

McGinty Unveils New Video and Website: The Democratic gubernatorial candidate released a new web video today to promote her candidacy and her new website.

Bucks Commissioner Endorses Strouse in PA-8: Diane Marseglia is choosing sides in the Democratic primary fight to face Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick.

Legislative Election Updates:

HD-81: State Rep. Mike Fleck (R-Huntingdon) officially has a primary challenger. Huntingdon County Treasurer Richard Irvin will try to unseat him in 2014. Irvin said he’s not challenging Fleck because the state Rep. is now openly gay. “That always can be a concern,” Irvin said. “Anybody that knows me and knows my job record in Huntingdon County knows I’m moving forward with the people’s needs at heart.”

Statewide
MSNBC Hardball: Chris Matthews hits Tom Corbett
AP: PA Senate approves expanding gambling to bars
AP: Governor Corbett urges action on transportation funding
StateImpactPA: Gas drilling may not be top issue for voters in Pa. governor’s race
State House Sound Bites: In DNA debate, Senate GOP leader dismisses funding concerns
Capitolwire: The politics behind the stalled transportation bill
Capitolwire: Senate Democrats in GOP-leaning districts get early warning.
Capitolwire: Panel to vote organ donor bill amid concerns of coroners, district attorneys.

Philadelphia
WHYY Newsworks: PowerCorps debut class shows promise in Philadelphia
WHYY Newsworks: DNA analysis costs, funding at issue in Pa. Senate
WHYY Newsworks: Frank Rizzo Jr. for mayor?
WHYY Newsworks: Three reasons why you should care about the Pennsylvania school funding crisis
WHYY Newsworks: Leach offers plan for limited medical marijuana in Pa.
Inquirer: Phila. can’t find records of some write-in votes
Inquirer: Pastor found guilty by church court in gay son’s wedding
Daily News: Philly native Katie McGinty might be the political surprise of 2014
Commonwealth Confidential: Corbett, Rendell join forces to urge passage of transportation bill
PhillyClout: Winkler: “How could L&I have permitted the demolition to continue?”
PhillyClout: Frank Rizzo officially a Democrat, run for mayor next?
PhillyClout: Mayor Nutter workin’ it to “Blurred Lines”
CapitolInq: Meehan bill takes aim at military sexual assault
PhillyNow: Video: Gov. Tom Corbett destroyed on Hardball
PhillyNow: Blackwater founder to meet protests at Friday Free Library event
KYW Newsradio: Pastor found guilty of violating church law for officiating same-sex marriage

SEPA
Courier Times: PA lawmakers want signs of God in all public schools
Courier Times: JFK and race
Courier Times: JFK’s unfinished business
Courier Times: Public meeting Thursday on Bucks County flood maps
Montgomery News: Montgomery County Election Board to hold recount in tied election for Abington Township’s Ward 4 seat for commissioner

Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette: Councilwoman Danko wants to keep her drilling bill alive
Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh suburbs suffering poverty at high rate
Post-Gazette: Mayor-elect Bill Peduto woos Slovenia LED firm
Post-Gazette: Peduto pledges Pittsburgh will work more closely with small nonprofits
Early Returns: Schwartz: hike college spending; freeze tuition for two years
KDKA: Candidate For Gov. Proposes Free Tuition For Some College Students

Southwest
Beaver County Times: Many local boards keep tax rates flat
Beaver County Times: Pa. House Republican switches stance on transportation bill
Johnstown Tribune-Democrat: Audit or no audit, Southmont is out of rec commission
Johnstown Tribune-Democrat: Franklin Co. hopeful challenging Shuster
Johnstown Tribune-Democrat: Rothfus plans office hours in Somerset

NEPA
Times-Tribune: Cancellation notices at center of Affordable Care Act controversy
The Times Leader: County workers could take hit on health care
Citizens Voice: Musto again seeks to delay trial
Citizens Voice: State AG’s office warns elderly about scams
Pocono Record: Monroe/Pike representative hopes $25 bounty will knock down coyote overpopulation
Pocono Record: Witness to history: Stroudsburg man remembers his strange encounter with Lee Harvey Oswald
Pocono Record: Delaware Valley seeks to buy still more land to build a school

South Central
Harrisburg Patriot-News: Pennsylvania House defeats major transportation funding plan
Harrisburg Patriot-News: Pennsylvania transportation bill shows there’s no free pothole patch or bridge fix
Harrisburg Patriot-News: Bill removes confusion around family educational trips during school year
Harrisburg Patriot-News: Latest expansion of legal gambling passes Pennsylvania Senate
Harrisburg Patriot-News: An act of love not rebellion, attorney for United Methodist pastor facing gay marriage charges tells jury
York Daily Record: State Rep. Seth Grove’s bill passes state House to rename bridges, roundabout for soldiers, officer who died in the line of duty

Lehigh Valley
Morning Call: Pennsylvania transportation bill hinges on construction workers’ pay
Morning Call: VIDEO: Rendell joins Corbett to push for transportation funding bill
Morning Call: Valley 610: Allentown School Board may oppose ‘Apartments in the Parkway’
Morning Call: WATCHDOG BLOG: PA auto insurance system better than most at keeping rates down, study finds
Reading Eagle: Conrad Weiser teachers plan contract rally Wednesday

North by Northwest
Sun-Gazette: LEGISLATIVE TALLY: South Side council updates its housing rehab program
Sun-Gazette: Public checks out Shell Appalachia’s new office at former PCT site
Daily Times: Legal fees push Penn State’s cost for Sandusky scandal to $51.8M
Daily Times: Bulk mixers of prescribed drugs get more scrutiny
Daily Times: Donald Trump takes to Twitter, again, to bash Penn State leadership

Opinions
Courier Times: Obama and Kennedy: Presidential history repeats itself
Post-Gazette: On its merits: A new bill offers sense on judicial elections
Beaver County Times: Gettysburg Address Speaks to American Ideals
Times-Tribune: Cut back on political fuel
Harrisburg Patriot-News: On its 150th anniversary, Lincoln’s message for the ages poses a challenge to us now

Blogs
Commonwealth Foundation: Reform Cybers Without Arbitrary Cuts
Keystone Politics: Matt Cartwright: I’m Not Running Away from the ACA
Keystone Politics: Corbett’s Ads Start Out on Defense
Keystone Politics: Erin McClelland Earns PA-12 Endorsements from Lawrence County Commissioner and Ellwood City Mayor
Keystone Politics: Infrequent Bus Transit is Philadelphia City Government’s Fault
Keystone Politics: Pass the Transportation Funding Bill!
Keystone Politics: Meet the Six PA House Democrats Fighting to Make Health Care More Expensive
Lehigh Valley Ramblings: NIZ Board Chair: Subsidies Only Belong to the Rich
Lehigh Valley Ramblings: A Northampton County Mountain Man
Lehigh Valley Ramblings: Thode: LVIA Disappointing Airtravel

2 Responses

  1. Interesting. The handwriting was already on the wall more than 50 years ago.

    “The property tax in most urban communities has reached the point of diminishing returns. It has reached in some communities the point of a capital levy, and we cannot expect that the property tax will furnish, in the 1960’s, the same income for the sustenance of the public sector that is has sustained in the 1940’s and 1950’s. I come from a city where the property tax is $103 or $104 per thousand dollars and the assessments reasonably high, and at that point I say it becomes confiscatory.” – Senator John F. Kennedy, October 29, 1960, Valley Forge Country Club.
    According to Pa State Rep Benninghoff and others, our legislature figured out How-To fund public schools without taxing property owners more than 12 years ago.
    Today, we stand at a crossroads. 3.5 million property owners across Pennsylvania want you to tell your legislators to vote YES on The Property Tax Independence Act before the Teachers Pension Fund Liability fiasco raises the property tax another 30% within two years and threatens to foreclose on another twenty thousand homeowners!!

  2. My researcher received another Email from the PAGOP. Tom Corbett is going save us from Obamacare. I warned everyone that very soon, the Race Hustlers of the PAGOP would be yelling nigga nigga nigga sounding the alarm bells to round up all the scared white folk. So let’s look at this argument: Corbett who can’t even get his Transportation bill passed is going to save our State from Obamacare? REALLY? Here is what I suggest to all PAGOP donors. STOP ENABLING ACTING GOVERNOR JOHN BRABENDER! Pick the most desirable of the Dem Guv Candidates and ride that horse into the Governor’s Mansion. You may have to hold your nose but at least you be riding a live horse.

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