2 More Pa. Lawmakers Endorse Smith for Senate
Tom Smith’s Senate campaign announced the support of Pa. Senator Mike Folmer (R-Lebanon) and Pa. Rep. Stephen Bloom (R-Cumberland) this afternoon.
Tom Smith’s Senate campaign announced the support of Pa. Senator Mike Folmer (R-Lebanon) and Pa. Rep. Stephen Bloom (R-Cumberland) this afternoon.
After Gov. Tom Corbett made it clear yesterday that he won’t be pushing for movement on a plan to reform Pennsylvania’s electoral college, Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi responded via Facebook saying, he does “not believe there will be sufficient time to advance [the plan] this year.”
Gov. Corbett chastised university officials that failed to stop former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky from abusing children. Appearing in front of numerous national television audiences, the freshman governor came across as a confident prosecutor committed to making things right at Penn State. Since then there has been a change of tone in the public sphere, and critics have begun to ask why Gov. Corbett why he didn’t do more to stop Sandusky himself.
Former State Rep. Sam Rohrer is officially a candidate for U.S. Senate. His strengths were on display during his announcement Monday, but his campaign still has questions to answer.
The conservative group CAP, the Citizens Alliance for Pennsylvania, is setting its sights on another Republican they deem insufficiently conservative: Pa. Rep. Mike Fleck (R-Huntingdon).
According to Borys Krawczeniuk, the likely congressional map would bring Rep. Tim Holden’s district into Scranton, Rep. Lou Barletta’s district down into Perry and Cumberland counties, and give all of Lycoming and Tioga Counties to Rep. Tom Marino.
For more than a half hour, Friday’s meeting of the Legislative Reapportionment Committee was diverted by members of Occupy Harrisburg, according to post on John Micek’s Capitol Ideas blog.
A judge’s decision to go easy on former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who is suspected of sexually abusing several minors during and after his tenure at Penn State, has brought Pennsylvania’s vague recusal rules into focus.
Here are some of the bills supported at a Tuesday press conference that would extend the statute of limitations on alleged child sexual abuse and increase mandatory reporting requirements.
In the wake of the sex abuse scandal at Penn State, lawmakers are pushing to make it a requirement to report the sexual abuse of a minor. They’re also aiming to increase the statute of limitations on sexual assault.
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