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Obama in Bucks, Flaherty leads for Allegheny Exec, Rep. Weldon in Libya, Corbett seeks a 4% pay cut for state workers (yowza!), and Casey hits the right notes on a shutdown.
April 7, 2011
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Obama in Bucks, Flaherty leads for Allegheny Exec, Rep. Weldon in Libya, Corbett seeks a 4% pay cut for state workers (yowza!), and Casey hits the right notes on a shutdown.
According to Propublica, a recent leaked email has revealed that oil and gas inspectors in the state will no longer be able to cite Marcellus Shale sites without prior consent from DEP top officials. Some are concerned that this will give Gov. Tom Corbett more power to override potential punishments for oil companies.
Former PA Republican U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon expressed his feelings about the current situation in Libya as well as his past experience with the Libyan government in an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times yesterday. Weldon had traveled to Libya back in 2004 when he headed a Congressional delegation to support Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s decision to give up Libya’s nuclear powered weapons program. Now, in 2011, Weldon finds himself back in Libya, but only this time Libya is in a worsened state of being.
Allegheny County Controller Mark Flaherty performs slightly better against either Republican. Flaherty leads County Councilman McCullough 48 percent to 22, and leads businessman D. Raja 48 percent to 21 percent.
With only a few days to go, Republicans and Democrats have yet to reach an agreement and decide the federal budget if they plan on avoiding a government shutdown.
President Obama made his first visit since announcing his re-election this past week, to Bucks County, PA.
A state savings of about $6 million to help lessen the state budget deficit. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Gov. Tom Corbett is now asking state workers to take a 4 percent pay cut in the first year of their next contract after rejecting a union offer for a pay freeze just months ago.
Sen. Casey has signed on to legislation that would pay soldiers during a government shutdown. Aides in the Obama administration have said that if there is a government shutdown at midnight on Friday, that would fall in the middle of the military’s two week pay cycle. Soldiers would only receive half the amount they would normally get paid and would not be paid the rest until a budget agreement was hammered out. Sen. Casey has been active in shutdown legislation, recently pressing for legislation that would cut off the salaries of members of congress in the event of a shutdown.
Anonymity claims many unseated politicians like ex-Senator Rick Santorum (especially after losing by 18 points) – but with his tendency for ostentatious and outlandish remarks, Santorum has remained near the top of discussion in the 2012 GOP Presidential race.
Allegheny County Council President Rich Fitzgerald, seeking the Democratic nomination for County Executive, launched the first television ad of the campaign Friday.
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