Turzai on Liquor Store Privatization: “Is This a Core Government Function? I Don’t Think So.”
On Wednesday, Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Turzai testified at a public hearing on his proposed liquor store privatization bill.
On Wednesday, Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Turzai testified at a public hearing on his proposed liquor store privatization bill.
At issue during the hearing, held in Newtown, Bucks County, was the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission report released last week. The hearing hosted a plethora of attendees, including state representatives from Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware and Lancaster counties and roughly 30 public attendees.
PoliticsPA co-owner and longtime public affairs strategist Larry Ceisler — a Western Pennsylvania native living and working in Philadelphia — contemplates the issue that is suddenly defining a busy summer. Who to root for this weekend, the Phillies or the Pirates?
The Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously approved three U.S. district judge nominees from western Pa. These nominees were first nominated last year by the president and were then re-nominated in January. The names are: Robert D. Mariani, nominee for U.S. district judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and Cathy Bissoon and Mark R. Hornack.
Rep. Pitts donated some campaign contributions, bonusgate is back in the news and the UFCW is rallying opposition to Turzai’s liquor store plan.
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.
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