7/6 Ups & Downs
Good Friday afternoon politicos, here’s hoping that your holiday week was enjoyable and relaxing. It was a less than hectic week in politics, and here are those that stood out above (or below) the rest.
Good Friday afternoon politicos, here’s hoping that your holiday week was enjoyable and relaxing. It was a less than hectic week in politics, and here are those that stood out above (or below) the rest.
With much legislative work done for the summer and no major bills before the House or Senate, candidates and defending incumbents can focus their full efforts on winning in November. We see six competitive and exciting races. So tell us readers, which is number one?
The results are in: 209 of our politically savvy readers voted in the latest PoliticsPA poll asking whether PA legislators would pass the state budget on time. An impressive 71 percent of people correctly predicted that the budget would indeed be signed into law by the Saturday night deadline
Much like the Pirates and Phillies, this week was a series split for the state parties. The GOP continues to be plagued by Turzai’s Voter ID comments as the Dems are edged out of a possible finalized budget. Here are this week’s Ups & Downs.
Former state Rep, U.S. Senate hopeful and 2010 Gubernatorial candidate Sam Rohrer has found a new job: President of The Pennsylvania Pastors’ Network, a project of Let Freedom Ring, Inc., a 501(c)(4).
Today, the Supreme Court ruled on the controversial Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The court ruled in favor of the bill 5-4, also upholding the individual mandate clause requiring every American to have health insurance. Here’s what PA politicos had to say.
We’ve come a long way from Saturday’s GOP state committee in Hershey. After PoliticsPA broke the story of Majority Leader Mike Turzai’s Voter ID comments, they’ve made the rounds on cable news – and finally arrived Wednesday night on The Colbert Report. Watch the segment here.
A surprisingly well-informed ‘Hunger Games’-themed invitation to State Rep. Mike Sturla’s July golf outing and fundraiser arrived in mailboxes today. The pamphlet features copious references to the franchise more in-depth than would be possible for a casual viewer of the film.
With the June 30 deadline looming, and Gov. Corbett having promised state Republicans an on-time budget at their committee meeting over the weekend, the pressure is on for the GOP-controlled legislature to pass a budget for the Governor to sign before the week is up.
In what was an otherwise uneventful weekend, Washington County Commissioner and State Treasurer candidate Diana Irey Vaughan stirred the crowd this weekend in a rousing, Army-themed speech. Gov. Corbett and Senate candidate Tom Smith also spoke.
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