Just two weeks after the election, Bill DeWeese and the Democrats in the State House are up to their old tricks.  Yesterday, DeWeese suggested taking money out of Pennsylvania’s health care fund in order to lower the massive budget deficit our Commonwealth is facing as a result of Ed Rendell.  The MCare abatement program is financed by Pennsylvania doctors as a means to prepare against liability claims.

Along with the refusal of House Democrats to vote on the continuation of a program which keeps thousand of doctors in the Commonwealth, DeWeese flippant attitude toward such a serious problem demonstrates an alarming disregard for the health care of millions of Pennsylvania citizens.

"Here was a chance for change.That's not what happened."

                          - Rep. Frank Dermody (D- Oakmont), regarding the results of the Democrat House Caucus elections

House Democrats Hand DeWeese No. 2 Slot (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Former Governor Mitt Romney has a spot-on piece in today's New York Times detailing the free-market solutions that the Detroit auto industry must employ in order to remain afloat in this current climate. While his advice may be difficult for many executives to stomach (his suggestion regarding long-term focus in the face of short-term gains for executives may, in particular, seem like a bitter pill to swallow), the agenda outlined in this agenda is definitely more constructive than the current bailout being proposed in Washington.

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt (The New York Times)

Reports are coming in that around Philadelphia Democrat Judges of Elections are not allowing Republican election board workers inside various polling places.

Reports of long lines in many polling places. 

We are going to continue to monitor these situations and will provide you with more details as they become available. 

We are receiving information from our field offices in Philadelphia that election problems are beginning to take shape. 

Background

Republican election board workers in at least six precincts have been tossed by the Democrat judge of elections. The reason provided was that they are the minority party.  Election board workers guard the legitimacy of the election process. 

We now have at least six precincts where this is occurring including:

·         44^th Ward, 12^th & 13^th divisions

·         6^th Ward, 12^th division

·         32^nd Ward, Division 28

·         Will provide additional information as it comes in

2004: In Pennsylvania, A Gun Was Used To Intimidate Poll Watchers. “A gun was purposely made visible to scare poll watchers at Ward 30, division 11, at 905 S. 20th St., Grand Court. Police were called and surrounded the location... Developing...” (“Votes Found On Machines In Philly Before Polls Open,” The Drudge Report, 11/2/04)

On Obama’s Wealth-Redistribution Plan

Republican Party Of Pennsylvania Chairman Rob Gleason: “Barack Obama’s paycheck redistribution plan would be devastating to small business.  This redistribution of wealth would suppress job creation.  As a small-business man who has been a small-business man for years, his plan would cause me to reduce the number of people working in my business because of the heavy tax burdens that he put on us. Most people are now beginning to see this really is socialism.  This plan that he has come forth with was to take the money from people who are successful job creators and redistribute it to everyone else. It’s not planned very well and its caused a big problem here in Pennsylvania. We’re getting a lot of feedback on this issue and it’s very important.” (Conference Call, 10/28/2008)

Pennsylvania’s 7^th Congressional District Candidate Craig Williams: “Barack Obama truthfully said, ‘Yes, I am going to and I think it is a good idea that we spread the wealth around and to do that is good for everybody.’ Well, it’s not good for everybody. First of all, it cripples small business, it doesn’t in fact bolster that lower middle class and classes where folks are not paying income taxes. In fact, what it does is make them even more dependent on a big, giant government.”

Obama’s Misguided Tax Policies

Williams: “It’s funny, somebody said to me just last week that the definition of a gaffe is when a politician actually tells you what is on his mind.  And that’s now what’s happened a handful of times when it comes to Barack Obama and his actual tax policies.  What he said for months since the primaries is that he intends to raise taxes on the top 5 percent of America and give 95 percent of America a tax credit or a tax refund, which we now know is a different paycheck.

“The first problem, of course, is 40 percent of that 95 percent don’t even pay taxes.  So we now know that refundable tax credit is Washington insider lingo for ‘You’ll just get a check from the federal government to augment your income.’  That is exactly what it means to redistribute wealth.  And that’s assuming first of all that he is even going to remain true to his word.  Barack Obama, of course, pledged that he would accept public financing for the campaign and when that was no longer convenient for him he shrugged if off and moved on the accept private funding.” (Conference Call, 10/28/2008)

Gleason: “These tax programs that Barack Obama [has are] frightening Pennsylvanians.  This is one of the big problems that he has is that people are becoming frightened about the prospect of him becoming president.  That is why he has not put away Pennsylvania.  There’s a big shift to John McCain.  He [Obama] wants to raise taxes, John McCain wants to reduce taxes.  Reduction of taxes has created a lot of jobs in Pennsylvania.  This would be very suppressive and it’s just not playing well here.” (Conference Call, 10/28/08)

John McCain’s Plan To Grow The Economy

Williams: “The way to grow the economy is what I’ve been saying and what John McCain’s been saying, which is you put America to work.  We are still in the middle of an energy crisis and this is an opportunity to take our country back.  We’ve been dependent on foreign countries for far too long.  Every president since Richard Nixon has promised and its now time to deliver on that.  We can build, build, build.  Pipelines, new infrastructure, everything designed to put America back to work just like we did coming out of the Great Depression.  And that is the answer.  John McCain wants to keep taxes where they are and limit the size of government.  The value of our dollar has declined in large measure because we can’t control spending in Washington, D.C.  That’s what John McCain wants to do and that’s what I want to do.” (Conference Call, 10/28/2008)

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"Senator Obama has made a lot of promises. First he said people making less than 250,000 dollars would benefit from his plan, then this weekend he announced in an ad that if you're a family making less than 200,000 dollars you'll benefit -- but yesterday, right here in Pennsylvania, Senator Biden said tax relief should only go to "middle class people -- people making under 150,000 dollars a year." It's interesting how their definition of rich has a way of creeping down. At this rate, it won't be long before Senator Obama is right back to his vote that Americans making just 42,000 dollars a year should get a tax increase. We can't let that happen." -- John McCain in Hershey, PA, 10/28/08

From FOX News

October 27, 2008

MEGYN KELLY: Another day, another election fraud lawsuit.  A major election lawsuit now in Pennsylvania, which is one of the crucial battleground states that could decide who will be the next president.  Right now there are 140,000 new voter registrations in Pennsylvania, and many of them, now we learn, are reportedly questionable.  The registrations were gathered, you won’t be surprised to hear, by the group ACORN.  That is the left-wing group that’s now under investigation for voter registration fraud in at least 15, count them, 15 states.  The Pennsylvania Republican Party now filing a lawsuit, asking a judge to force Pennsylvania’s secretary of state to make sure that these new registrations are all valid.  The lawsuit says that Pennsylvania’s 21 electoral votes, and the next president, may be determined by illegal ballots without some sort of court intervention.  Rob Gleason is the state GOP Chairman.  He joins us now by phone.  Good morning, Rob. 

ROB GLEASON: Good morning, Megyn.

KELLY: Alright, so you’re talking 140,000 new voter registrations, including 85,000 in Philadelphia gathered by ACORN?

GLEASON: Absolutely.  Most of them were gathered by ACORN.  And I am very concerned about the validity of these registrations. 

KELLY: Why, what are you seeing Rob?

GLEASON: Well, Philadelphia flagged 50,000 duplicate registrations.  Just think how many more slipped through.  So, there’s going be a lot of people in the Philadelphia and other counties too that are going to be able to vote more than once.  And that’s one of the reasons that we’re in court is to make sure that doesn’t happen.  We have asked ACORN to turn over their list.  We know they kept a list of all the people that they submitted.  So, we want their list and we want the secretary of the commonwealth to provide a foolproof system to make sure people don’t vote two or three times.

KELLY: We’ve seen reportedly registration forms there where the signatures were all in the same handwriting.  Where street addresses were found, in fact, to be vacant lots.  Where names were listed on the forms that appear in the same order as they do in the local phone book.  I mean there is at least as we say in the law, a prima facie case of somebody committing registration fraud.  It appears these forms of come from the group ACORN, at least in part.  What does the secretary of state in Pennsylvania now say about it?

GLEASON:  They say it is a frivolous lawsuit and everything is under control.  But we know it’s not because under the Pennsylvania statewide uniform registry of elections, it’s called the Sure System, has collapsed under the volume of registrations that have come in.  We have also asked the secretary to be sure there’s a lot of – enough provisional ballot applications.  What has happened in the past, people come in and say they can’t find their registration and let them vote anyway in some of these precincts.

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Joe Maddon recognizes Lou Barletta’s commitment to protecting his constituents. A native of Hazelton, reporters jokingly asked the manager who would be left to guard his hometown after he distributed his free World Series tickets to friends and family. He quickly pointed to “Louie Barletta, the mayor.”

  Fall Classic Brings Maddon Home (mlb.com via raysbaseball.com)

"The single most important thing you can do to get elected is to have street money!" Rendell shouted, adding, "There are people from the Obama campaign here, so let's all say it again. The most important thing you can do to get elected is have street money!"

Dems Sweating Over Street $ From Obama (Philadelphia Daily News)

A  new radio ad from Team America PAC.