Rongione Made False Claim Of Residency Says GOP

The Delaware County Republican Party today, Oct. 27, filed complaints with the Delaware County Board of Elections and Delaware County Voter Registration Commission against Democrat Vince Rongione, a candidate for State Representative in the 163rd Legislative District. The complaints ask the agencies to investigate Rongione for violations of Pennsylvania’s Voter Registration and state election laws.

Under the Pennsylvania Constitution, an individual must be a resident of the district in which they are running for a minimum of one year prior to the election. In October 2013, the last date to file a voter registration prior to the 2013 general election, Rongione filed a change of voter registration with an address of 1251 Wilson Drive, located in Upper Darby’s 3-7 voting district. However, newly obtained witness statements show that the property was for sale, unoccupied, and vacant – despite Rongione’s assertion that he was residing there according to his voter registration form, county GOP Chairman Andy Reilly said.

The real estate agent who listed the property has provided a statement that he visited the property weekly from July 2013 through January 2014 and that the residence was vacant and unoccupied the entire time, Reilly says. Similar statements from a neighbor of the residence, the new owner of the property (who settled on the house in January 2014) and their real estate agent also confirm that the property was unoccupied and vacant.

“Based on the statements we have obtained, it appears that Vince Rongione lied about residing at this address in order to establish a basis for proof of residency so he could run for the seat,” said Reilly. “This appears to be part of an elaborate deception orchestrated by Rongione in an attempt to circumvent the state constitution’s residency requirements. If, for some reason, voters were to elect Rongione in spite of his repeated deceptions throughout the campaign, he could not be seated as a legislator if he fails to meet the residency requirements.”

Specifically, the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania requires that a State Representative “shall have been citizens and inhabitants of their respective districts one year next before their election.”

On Dec. 7, 2013, Rongione subsequently registered to vote at his newly purchased house on Blanchard Road in Upper Darby. This was more than one month after the Constitutional deadline for establishing his residency.

Rongione’s Republican opponent, Jamie Santora, has been raising questions about Rongione’s residency claims throughout the campaign. However, officials just became aware that the house he used in an attempt to establish residency was for sale and vacant.

“I have asked the voter services agencies to investigate this apparent fraudulent voter registration and unlawful voting that occurred in 2013,” said Reilly. “This is a serious matter, no mere campaign rhetoric, and there are serious consequences if prosecutorial agencies confirm the facts we have discovered. Unless he can immediately produce evidence that he actually lived at 1251 Wilson Drive and intended to make this his permanent domicile, Rongione should admit his wrongful actions to the residents of this district, end his campaign, and seek immediate court permission to withdraw as a candidate.”

Rongione Made False Claim Of Residency Says GOP

Rongione Made False Claim Of Residency Says GOP

Fox29 Features Delco Memorial

Kudos to Fox29 Philadelphia and Sue Serio for this morning’s (Oct. 27) story on Good Day concerning the Delaware County Veterans Memorial on West Chester Pike in Newtown.

Featured were Margaret Lozinak Lawrence of Springfield and Bob Dimond of Media, both Korean War veterans, and Springfield Police Chief Joe Daly, who served as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps during Vietnam.

Kudos also to Claude deBotton without whose help the Memorial would never have been built.

 

FOX 29 News Philadelphia | WTXF-TV

 

Fox29 Features Delco Memorial

Fox29 Features Delco Memorial in a story on Good Day on Oct. 27.

Jews Attacked On US Campuses

Noted pollster Frank Luntz has produced a video describing an horrific outbreak of antisemitism on US college campuses. It has  involved physical assaults and at least one hospitalization.

The perps are the usual suspects namely progressives seeking turmoil to give meaning to pathetic lives, and Muslims.

American Jews, please wake up. The people who claim to guided by tolerance are anything but. They are liars. Stop believing them.

Here is the video

 

 

Hat tip Donna Ellingsen

 

Jews Attacked On US Campuses

Jews Attacked On US Campuses as described by pollster and researcher Frank Luntz

HB 46 Eases Organ Donations

The Pennsylvania General Assembly has passed legislation, HB 46, that would remove a major hurdle for potential organ and bone marrow donors, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129), and the bill awaits Gov. Corbett’s signature.

Cox said the bill would reauthorize, and make permanent, a program initiated in 2006 to provide tax credits to employers who offer paid leave to workers who choose to become living donors. The ability to get paid time off work for this procedure could help save lives.

He said tax credits offered under the bill would be equal to the amount paid out in wages while an employee donor undergoes the transplant procedure and recovery – up to five days.

The bill is awaiting the governor’s signature.

For  information about organ donation, including how to become a donor, click here.

HB 46 Eases Organ Donations

HB 46 Eases Organ Donations

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-25-14

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-25-14

 

The SV The Twenty One Friends was three-masted schooner built in 1872 and named for the group of 21 Philadelphia Quakers — vile capitalists they were — that financed it.

It was rammed by the John D. May off Cape Hatteras in1885 while returning to Philadelphia with a full load of lumber from Brunswick, Ga.

The man in charge, a Captain Jeffries, ordered his crew to abandoned the vessel.

The Twenty One Friends, however, proved tougher than thought.

It didn’t sink but for the next two years drifted around the Atlantic as a ghost ship and was sighted on both coast.

She finally came to rest  in Ireland, where her cargo was salvaged and she was employed as a fishing vessel.

 

Twenty One Friends

Pope Francis Inspires John Kane Rebuke

Pope Francis, Oct. 23, declared corruption to be a greater evil than sin.

Remorse is possible only when one is aware of evil, which is not the case with a corrupt person said the Pope in an address to the International Association of Penal Law.

“It is hard for the one who has it to realize it; others realize it and have to tell him,” the Pope said.

Well, if  the Pope wants it, here it goes:

John Kane, you are corrupt.

You  use the automatically,  mostly involuntarily, deducted money from the paychecks of the members of Plumber’s Local 690 of Philadelphia and Vicinity for a $119,213 salary to co-chair the union’s vacation fund, a job  that you have confessed to the IRS takes but one hour per week.

That is corruption.

And that’s on top of the $156,537 you get as the union’s business manager for which you claim to work 39 hours per week.

That is corruption

And you fathered a child out of wedlock and neglected to support her.

That is corruption.

And you tried to talk her mother into aborting her.

That is corruption.

So Mr. Kane, in the name of Pope Francis, quit your campaign for Pennsylvania state senator in the 26th District as you are obviously not fit to hold office.

And give up your union salary as it is no different than theft.

Raise your family on the $40 per hour you would expect to earn in your trade.

And try to pay back the mother you abandoned  some of the $245,000 it cost her and her family to raise your daughter.

Hey, somebody had to say it.

In  related matter, Francis said “The scandalous concentration of global wealth is possible through the connivance of political authorities.”

Welcome to the Tea Party, Your Holiness.

Pope Francis Inspires John Kane Rebuke

Pope Francis Inspires John Kane Rebuke

HB 1013 Gives Homeschooling Boost

The Pennsylvania  General Assembly, Oct. 22 passed HB 1013, a major reform of Pennsylvania’s home education law, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)

The bill would grant Commonwealth recognition of diplomas issued by supervisors and approved diploma-granting organizations; eliminate duplicate evaluation requirements; and give much-needed protection to home education programs for the duration of any appeals process relating program, said Cox.

The bill awaits Gov. Corbett’s expected signature.

The initial vote, June 29, passed  the House  133-65 with no Republican dissenters and 26 Democrat supporters.

The passage in the Senate occurred on Oct. 15 and was 37-11, with the dissenters being all Democrats.

The House concurrence was on Oct. 20, again with all Republicans supporting joined by just 21 Democrats this time.

Cox notes that the House passed Senate Bill 1281, a government reform proposal that would assist local school districts with the construction reimbursement process known as PlanCON; and House Bill 2076, which would apply a uniform standard of acceptability for Advanced Placement examinations in all state institutions of higher learning but that these bills appear dead in the Senate.

Cox pointed out that the legislature has set an an all-time in investment in Pennsylvania education of more than $10 billion in the 2014-15 state budget.

HB 1013 Gives Homeschooling Boost

HB 1013 Gives Homeschooling Boost

 

HB 91 Expands School Choice In Pa

HB 91, which expands Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs, has overwhelmingly passed the General Assembly and awaits Gov. Corbett’s signature, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

The bill also allows the credits for the programs to be shared based on need.

The EITC and OSTC provide businesses a tax credit of up to 90 percent for up to $750,000 if they contribute to a scholarship organization, an educational improvement organization, and/or a pre-kindergarten scholarship organization.

The tax credit does not apply to property taxes.

The money is used to fund innovations in public schools and provide tuition assistance in the form of scholarships to eligible students residing within the boundaries of a low-achieving school to attend another public school outside of their district or nonpublic school.

The initial passage of the bill in the House on June 24, 2013 was 198-0.  The passage in the Senate on Oct. 15, 2014 was 48-0. The concurrence in the House on Oct. 20 was 193-4 with the dissenters being Mike Carroll of the 118th District, Pamela DeLissio of the 194th District, Phyllis Mundy of the 120th District and Eddie Day Pashinski  of the 121st District.

HB 91 Expands School Choice In Pa

 

HB 91 Expands School Choice In Pa

Word Scrabble, An Off The Internet

Courtesy of Cathy Craddock

 

This is one of the most clever E-mails I’ve received in a while.  Someone out there  Must be “deadly” at Scrabble. Wait till you see the last one! It’s going to be  hard to top because It fits to a “T”

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:

When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES – LET’S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z ‘S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
I’M A DOT IN PLACE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FINALLY….

FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

*PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

When you rearrange the letters:

“An Arab Backed Imposter”

Bet your friends haven’t seen this one!

 

Word Scrabble, An Off The Internet