As House Majority Leader Mike Turzai offers testimony to the House Liquor Control Committee regarding his plan to privatize the Commonwealth’s wine and spirits locales, the United Food & Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) has taken to the airwaves yet again in an effort to build opposition to the plan.
Attorneys for former House speaker John Perzel and seven co-defendants in a government corruption case are accusing prosecutors of misconduct for destroying investigation notes believed to show inconsistencies in witness statements.
The Directorate for Inter-Service Intelligence, Pakistan’s spy agency, has been financing the Kashmiri American Council, which advocates for India to give up parts of Kashmir. Part of the council’s push to gain influence was through campaign contributions. Under United States’ law it is illegal for foreign governments to give money to political candidates and since the council was financed through Pakistan’s military it broke the law. Representative Joe Pitts (R-16) was one of the politicians who received such contributions.
Sen. Toomey put forward legislation that prioritizes payments in the event of a default, Mayor Nutter collaborated with colleagues in an op-ed that warns of economic peril in the event of a default, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry are engaging each other over gay marriage and state’s rights and we take a look at Laureen Cummings’ campaign where Ms. Cummings is using Facebook to interact directly with individual voters.
The political gridlock surrounding the debt crisis threatens to undo economic progress made in America’s cities and “sink us back into recession,” according to an opinion piece signed by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and his counterparts in Los Angeles and Mesa and published at Politico on Tuesday.
Under Toomey’s aptly named “Ensuring the Full Faith and Credit of the United States and Protecting America’s Soldiers and Seniors Act,” the Treasury would be obligated to prioritize interest on its debt, social security payments, and salary due to active duty military service members.
This weekend Senator Rick Santorum blasted Texas Governor Rick Perry’s position that gay marriage is a states’ rights issue and the federal government should leave it alone.
Let’s face it – meeting a politican face-to-face is a thing of the past. Technology now allows us to be virtual “friends” with a U.S. Senate hopeful if we so chose, as a way to educate ourselves on the person’s political beliefs and happenings.
In this morning’s buzz, we discuss Rep. Thompson’s light bulb amendment, a new add by the DCCC, Amazon.com and liquor store privatization.
A few weeks after promising to hire hundreds of full-time employees in Pennsylvania, online retail giant Amazon.com’s application process has been plagued by a series of communications errors, according to a report published by the Morning Call last weekend.
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