MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell — who once worked at KYW many moons ago — interviewed former New Hampshire governor and Romney supporter John Sununu which wound up with with Sununu laughing at her brave but futile attempts to defend President Obama.
Embattled Newtown Chief Gets Public Hearing
A hearing has been scheduled by the Newtown (Delaware County) Supervisors regarding embattled Police Chief Dennis Anderson whose status is the subject of much speculation in the township.
It is 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 17, at the township building, 209 Bishop Hollow Road.
Anderson has requested that the hearing be public. The township has not mentioned the hearing on its website.
The hearing has reportedly been rescheduled until July 24.
Texas Says No To 0-Care
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has made it clear that his state won’t be signing up with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In an letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, he says:
In the ObamaCare plan, the federal government sought to force the states to expand their Medicaid programs by — in the words of the Supreme Court — putting a gun to their heads. Now that the “gun to the head” has been removed, please relay this message to the President: I oppose bot the expansion of Medicaid as provided in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the creation of a so-called “state” insurance exchange, because both represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state.
I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the PPACA power grab. Thank God and our nation’s founders that we have the right to do so.
Neither a “state” exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under the Orwellian-named PPACA would result in better “patient protection” or in more “affordable care” What they would do is make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.
The complete letter can be found here.
Are you listening Gov. Corbett?
GOP Seeks Vols
The Delaware County Republican Party is seeking volunteers for this year’s fall campaign. Those interested should contact Aaron Summers at 484-222-1388 or asummers@pagop.org
The office is on the second floor of the Springfield Shopping Center, 1001 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, next to the old Borders bookstore.
Voter ID Or Things That Make You Go Hmmmm
The old media tools of the Democrat Party are screaming now that Pennsylvania’s new law requiring voters to present photo identification at polling places is going to disenfranchise 750,000 voters.
They claim that 750,000 registered voters have no photo identification.
In other words, they are saying that in a state with 12.7 million persons, 750,000 adult Pennsylvanians’ can’t either:
1. Drive or
2. Cash a check or
3. Get treatment from the Veterans Administration or
4. Open a bank account or
5. Go to their classes or events at an accredited college or
6. Enter their job site as an employee with the county/state/federal government or
7. Buy booze or cigarettes if they look under 30 or
8. Get a library card or
9. Get a supermarket rewards card or
10. Use the nursing care facility to which they belong.
In other words, the Democrat propagandists are claiming that there are 750,000 Pennsylvanians ineligible to do at least one of these things — these are “or” statements we are talking people not “and” statements.
So is this true or were there 750,000 thousand people registered to vote in this state that did not exist?
Just one of those things that make you go hmmmm
She’s A Rich Girl And She’s Left America
Denise Rich, the wealthy liberal socialite who convinced Bill Clinton to give a pardon to her ex-hubby Marc, has renounced her American citizenship to save tens of millions in taxes.
Marc, by the way, was not suffering in some dingy prison when he got the papers telling him he was a free man. He was in Switzerland where he had been staying when the indictment came down that he was being charged with tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. He naturally never returned to the U.S.
How Denise got him the pardon is a matter of some speculation.
As Sir John Harrington once said, “Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
Corbett Returns To Family Farms Protection Taken By Rendell
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The governor has signed into HB 761 into Act 85 and transfers of family farms for corporate liability reasons are now exempted from the realty transfer tax reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129) Excluded from the tax is the “transmission of real estate devoted to agriculture if the transfer is to a family farm, general, limited or limited-liability partnership by a member of the same family and the family directly owns at least 75 percent of the interests in the partnership,” says Cox. It would also exempt a transfer between members of the same family of an ownership interest in a real estate company, family farm corporation, general, limited or limited-liability partnership which owns real estate. It further exempts the transfer of certain agricultural real estate and property to a surviving child or sibling from the state’s inheritance tax by exempting from the realty transfer tax a transfer of real estate used for agriculture by a family member to family farm business controlled by the same members of the same family. In other cases, the realty transfer tax is imposed at 2 percent of the value of the property being transferred. The law reverses a policy change enacted during the Rendell administration which allows the state to collect taxes from a farm owner who reorganizes his or her agricultural business for corporate liability reasons. A 2000 court decision established the principle that a conveyance of realty owned by a general partnership to a “succeeding” limited partnership would not be considered a “transfer of realty” if the partners and proportionate share of ownership interests among the partners remains the same. |
Honor Flight Gets Distinguished Service Award
The Military Officers Association of America has bestowed upon Honor Flight the Distinguished Service Award for 2012.
Honor Flight is a national non-profit organization founded in 2005 to give aging or terminally ill veterans a day of honor in Washington D.C.
There is no cost to the veterans. Thousands of them have participated in the last six years.
The Philadelphia hub was started last summer by Springfield (Delco) resident Andrew Schiavello.
Unexpected Music Find Of The Day
Ivan Jed has clued me into Los Angeles-based Walla, an electronic/dance/rock band that is quite good.
You can sample them here.
Thanks Ivan.
Pa. GOP Sets Us Up For New Tolls
Uh-oh Chongo. Do new toll snarl-creating tolls roads and bridges loom in Pennsylvania’s future?
HB 3, passed by the state House 117-79 and the Senate 49-0, has been signed into Act 88 by Gov. Corbett.
The legislation partners “the public and private sectors to help rebuild the state’s deteriorating transportation infrastructure” according to State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)
Cox said the law “provides a broad-based framework for transportation public-private partnerships, or P3s, authorizing contractual arrangements between a public entity and a private entity.” Under the P3, the public entity maintains ownership of the asset, but contracts with a private entity to develop, construct, manage, operate and/or finance a given project.
The implementation of P3s has the potential to generate $2.7 billion in revenue over a five-year period to deal with the repair and replacement of nearly 5,000 structurally deficient bridges in Pennsylvania, the highest number in the nation, Cox said. A 2010 study by the State Transportation Advisory Committee indicated an additional $3.5 billion per year is needed to fully meet Pennsylvania’s transportation infrastructure needs.
Currently, 32 other states and Puerto Rico have enacted laws authorizing the implementation of P3s, Cox said.
Hey, how about we just get rid of prevailing wage which inflates construction cost by — at least — 10 percent, and then put our legislators and public school teachers on 401Ks to start solving the upcoming pension bomb? Then maybe we would start finding the money to fix our roads and bridges without new tolls.
By the way, it has been noted that this year’s budget includes $1.7 million for prescription and dental benefits for our legislators. Granted the revelation comes from RockTheCapitol.com, which one strongly suspects would not be making an issue of this if the Democrats were running things, but those of us who think all politicians are suspect have no problem spreading this news.
We will point out that the “Cadillac” benefits package is not a new thing.