Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 3, 2016

Republicans Narrow Voter Registration Gap In Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania

September 03, 2016 North Carolina , Pennsylvania 0 Comments


By Washington Post, Aug 29, 2016 

Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton is enjoying a strong summer but her party's voter registration advantage is shrinking in three battleground states that could decide the election, according to a CNN analysis of newly released registration data.

With 10 weeks to go, Clinton is favored in CNN's latest Electoral College map. And there are still more registered Democrats than Republicans in Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. But the GOP has improved its position in all three states by adding hundreds of thousands of voters to the rolls.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Poll: Trump Leads Swing States Of Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania

Poll: Trump Leads Swing States Of Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania

October 07, 2015 Ohio , Pennsylvania 0 Comments


By David Jackson, Oct 7, 2015 On Politics

Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican presidential contest, not just in early contests states like Iowa and New Hampshire, but in the key swing states of Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

A new Quinnipiac University Poll illustrates Trump’s leads in those latter three states, two of which are homes to Republican opponents Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich.

“Those who were waiting for Donald Trump’s campaign to collapse will need to wait longer, at least in the three key states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

In Florida, Trump leads with 28%, followed by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson with 16%. Rubio, a U.S. senator from the Sunshine State, is third at 14%. Bush, a former governor of Florida, is fourth at 12%, followed by businesswoman Carly Fiorina (7%) and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (6%).
 
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Monday, June 29, 2015

So much for diversity of opinion!

June 29, 2015 Anti-Same Sex Marriage , Fox News 0 Comments
Newspaper Faces Firestorm After Attempted Crackdown On Anti-Gay Marriage Op-Eds 

By Fox News, Jun. 27, 2015

A Pennsylvania newspaper is facing a firestorm of criticism after the editorial board said it would "very strictly limit" op-eds and letters against same-sex marriage on the heels of Friday's historic Supreme Court ruling.

PennLive/The Patriot-News in Harrisburg has issued a string of statements on its opinion page policies since the ruling -- which legalized gay marriage nationwide -- and by Saturday morning, appeared to have softened its op-ed restrictions on the subject.

But the newspaper initially took a hard-line stance. Editorial Page Editor John Micek tweeted shortly after the ruling that the newspaper would "no longer accept" or print op-eds and letters to the editor in opposition to same-sex marriage.


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Friday, May 15, 2015

It's Not About The Money!

May 15, 2015 Academia , Pennsylvania 0 Comments
Overhaul Pennsylvania's Failing Education Model

By Thomas Hylton, May 14, 2015, Philly.com

After decades of talking but not doing, Pennsylvania finally appears ready to reform public school financing.

Both Gov. Wolf and Republican legislators agree the state should boost its share of school funding by substituting increased state income and sales taxes for local real estate taxes. With a bipartisan vote, the House passed such a bill Wednesday, which the governor praised as the beginning of a conversation on substantive property tax relief. This is a critically important breakthrough.

Local school property taxes are an enormous burden on Pennsylvania’s cities and towns, and the primary impediment to their revitalization. For most of the last 60 years, urban property values have declined as ever-rising real estate taxes have driven residents and businesses out of traditional towns and into the suburbs. The urban exodus has left behind increased concentrations of poverty and the need for costly local services, perpetuating a downward spiral.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Floodgates now open

November 19, 2014 Bill Cosby , Daily Mail 0 Comments
Former Pennsylvania DA: 'I Wanted To Arrest Bill Cosby --I Thought He Was Probably Guilty'
Sara Nathan, Nov. 18, 2014, Daily Mail

Bruce Castor was the DA of Montgomery County at the time that Andrea Constand claimed Cosby, now 77, drugged her and sexually assaulted her at his Pennsylvania home in January 2004.

Miss Constand, a former director of operations for Temple University's women's basketball team and college basketball star, launched a legal suit against Cosby, a man she called her 'mentor', in March 2005. She was the first - and only woman - to press charges against the comic legend.


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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Gun worse than beating fiancé in NJ?

September 25, 2014 Concealed Carry Permit , Gun Ownership 0 Comments
Single Mom Faces No Jail Time For Mistakenly Bringing Gun To NJ

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By Matt Vespa, Sept. 24, 2014, Townhall.com

It appears that Shaneen Allen will be avoiding prison time after she was charged with bringing her legal firearm into New Jersey. Allen, a Pennsylvania resident and mother of two, bought a handgun and obtained a concealed carry permit after being robbed twice; she doesn’t have a criminal record. The problem is that New Jersey does not have a reciprocity agreement with Pennsylvania regarding concealed carry permits.

As Katie wrote in a previous post, she accidentally brought her firearm into New Jersey, where she willingly informed a police officer, who had pulled her over for a traffic violation, that she was carrying her handgun. As a result, she faced up to ten-years in prison.

Well, not anymore (via Press Of Atlantic City):
A Philadelphia mother facing prison time for bringing her legally registered gun into New Jersey will be allowed into a diversion program, after the attorney general clarified a directive that had expanded New Jersey's gun law. 
Shaneen Allen was arrested last year after a motor vehicle stop on the Atlantic City Expressway in Hamilton Township. She told the state trooper that she had her loaded gun and a concealed carry permit with her.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

More liberal racism

July 31, 2014 Brendan Bordelon , Dailycaller.com 0 Comments
Democrats Dogged By Racist, Sexist Tweets From Campaign Staffers

By Brendan Bordelon, Jul. 30, 2014, Dailycaller.com

Democrat Kevin Strouse’s congressional campaign in Pennsylvania sent out an email blast on Tuesday showcasing the personal story of a young field organizer — but failed to notice racist and bigoted tweets on that staffer’s Twitter account before making her a public face in the campaign.

It’s the second time in less than two weeks that people working for Democratic House candidates have been caught with offensive content on their Twitter accounts — an unusual situation that political pros believe points to a Democratic disinterest in vetting campaign staff.

Strouse, who is angling to unseat House Republican Mike Fitzpatrick from Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district, unveiled a new blog last Thursday with a story written by the field organizer in question. That post was then sent out in an email blast to supporters on Tuesday.

Because the employee was between 17 and 18 years old when the tweets were posted and did not work for Strouse at that time, The Daily Caller has chosen not to reveal her identity. But the tweets themselves point to a serious lack of judgment — both on her part and on the Democratic candidate’s decision to make her a integral part of his outreach campaign.

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

NOT NAT'L NEWS?! 4 Top Philly Dems Busted In 3 Yr. Sting. BUT New Dem AG Pulls Plug--Calls Probe 'Tainted By Racism'

April 02, 2014 Frank G. Fina , Kathleen Kane 0 Comments
By Angela Couloumbis and Phil McCoy, Mar. 17, 2014, Philly.com
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office ran an undercover sting operation over three years that captured leading Philadelphia Democrats, including four members of the city's state House delegation, on tape accepting money, The Inquirer has learned.
Yet no one was charged with a crime.
Prosecutors began the sting in 2010 when Republican Tom Corbett was attorney general. After Democrat Kathleen G. Kane took office in 2013, she shut it down.
In a statement to The Inquirer on Friday, Kane called the investigation poorly conceived, badly managed, and tainted by racism, saying it had targeted African Americans.
Those who favored the sting believe Kane killed a solid investigation, led by experienced prosecutor Frank G. Fina, that had ensnared several public officials and had the potential to capture more. They said they were outraged at Kane's allegation that race had played a role in the case.
Before Kane ended the investigation, sources familiar with the inquiry said, prosecutors amassed 400 hours of audio and videotape that documented at least four city Democrats taking payments in cash or money orders, and in one case a $2,000 Tiffany bracelet.
Typically, the payments made at any one time were relatively modest - ranging from $500 to $2,000 - but most of those involved accepted multiple payments, people familiar with the investigation said. In some cases, the payments were offered in exchange for votes or contracts, they said.
Sources with knowledge of the sting said the investigation made financial pitches to both Republicans and Democrats, but only Democrats accepted the payments.
The investigation's undercover operative was a little-known lobbyist, Tyron B. Ali, 40, who agreed to wear a wire and tape the officials to win favorable treatment after his arrest in a $430,000 fraud case, the newspaper has learned.

In an unusual move, the Attorney General's Office then dropped the fraud charges secretly, under seal, last fall.

Read the full story:  www.philly.com
Related:  "New Penn AG Hires Atty For Defamation Lawsuit--After She Called Aborted Sting Racist" --Thought Louisiana was bad.

Related:  "New Penn AG--A Democrat--Suddenly Stops Sting That Snared Major Philly Dems" --And "Bridgegate" is a bigger deal?!
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

"New Penn AG Hires Atty For Defamation Lawsuit--After She Called Aborted Sting Racist" --Thought Louisiana was bad.

March 22, 2014 Frank G. Fina , Kathleen Kane 0 Comments
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Thomas Fitzgerald and Craig R. McCoy, Mar. 21, 2014, Inquirer Staff Writers

State Attorney General Kathleen Kane has hired one of the most feared litigators in the region, Richard A. Sprague, to represent her in possible defamation suits arising from accounts of her decision to end an undercover investigation that taped at least five Philadelphia Democrats accepting cash or gifts.
Sprague said he would launch an investigation into the conduct of the prosecutors who ran that sting operation, which began in 2010 before Kane took office. She has said the case was mismanaged, possibly tainted by racial profiling, and far too weak for any prosecutions.
Kane arrived at a Thursday morning meeting with Inquirer editors and reporters, flanked by a pair of lawyers, Sprague and his son, Thomas A. Sprague. The meeting began on an unusual note when the elder Sprague announced that Kane was his client - and that she would not speak.

Her office had asked for the meeting following the newspaper's story Sunday that disclosed the corruption investigation and her decision to halt it.
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Related:  Kane shut down sting that snared Phila. officials

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"New Penn AG--A Democrat--Suddenly Stops Sting That Snared Major Philly Dems" --And "Bridgegate" is a bigger deal?!

March 22, 2014 Democrats , Frank G. Fina 0 Comments
By Angela Couloumbis and Craig R. McCoy, Mar. 17, 2014, Inquirer Staff Writers

The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office ran an undercover sting operation over three years that captured leading Philadelphia Democrats, including four members of the city's state House delegation, on tape accepting money, The Inquirer has learned.
Yet no one was charged with a crime.
Prosecutors began the sting in 2010 when Republican Tom Corbett was attorney general. After Democrat Kathleen G. Kane took office in 2013, she shut it down.
In a statement to The Inquirer on Friday, Kane called the investigation poorly conceived, badly managed, and tainted by racism, saying it had targeted African Americans.

Those who favored the sting believe Kane killed a solid investigation, led by experienced prosecutor Frank G. Fina, that had ensnared several public officials and had the potential to capture more. They said they were outraged at Kane's allegation that race had played a role in the case.

Before Kane ended the investigation, sources familiar with the inquiry said, prosecutors amassed 400 hours of audio and videotape that documented at least four city Democrats taking payments in cash or money orders, and in one case a $2,000 Tiffany bracelet.
Typically, the payments made at any one time were relatively modest - ranging from $500 to $2,000 - but most of those involved accepted multiple payments, people familiar with the investigation said. In some cases, the payments were offered in exchange for votes or contracts, they said.

Read the full story:  www.philly.com

 Related:  "New Penn AG Hires Atty For Defamation Lawsuit--After She Called Aborted Sting Racist" --Thought Louisiana was bad.

 Related:  "Ex Gov Louisiana Isn't the First to Seek Congress After Crime--There's A Long History" --Can't vote for himself.



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