Please vote on November 3rd and call your family and friends and ask them to vote for the Democratic candidates for judge.

After the 2010 census, Pennsylvania’s congressional districts will be redrawn. Your vote for Judge Jack Panella for Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice is critical to Pennsylvania’s Democratic delegation to Congress.

Most of us will never stand in front of a judge in a courtroom. But it’s important that people in that situation should be facing an ethical judge who respects working people, not just powerful corporations. We’ve seen that in these trying economic times, judges around the country have acted as a last defense for working families.

Now, it’s time for Pennsylvanians to elect judges to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Superior Court and Commonwealth Court.

Working America is supporting Judge Jack Panella for Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Jack Panella has a strong record of siding with working families on the court. We know we can trust him because he has made ethics central to his career, having overseen judicial discipline and conduct in the state.

We are supporting the following candidates:

SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA

Elect:

 Judge Jack Panella

SUPERIOR COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
Elect:
Judge Robert Colville
Judge Anne E. Lazarus
Kevin McCarthy
Judge Teresa Sarmina

Vote Yes:
For Retention of Judge Kate Ford Elliott

COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
Elect:
Barbara B. Ernsberger
Linda Judson

Vote Yes:
For Retention of Judge Dan Pellegrini

How you vote is a personal decision, but Working America
believes these are the candidates we can count on to be there
for working families and ensure working people have a voice on
the job.

We hope you’ll get out and vote for Judge Panella and the rest
of our endorsed candidates.

Sincerely,
Working America

Healthcare NOT Warfare!

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Rally

Saturday Oct. 17th 1:00 pm

Beaver County Courthouse

———————————————– Continue reading Oct 17: Beaver Rally for Medicare for All – End the Wars →

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives approved a state budget revenue plan late Friday night and sent that bill to the Republican-controlled Senate for concurrence.  The Senate is scheduled to vote on Monday.

While this budget is far from perfect, it is the best we can hope for this year.  It creates a more stable funding plan for most essential services for our state’s families, seniors and children. It includes a $300 million increase for basic education funding that will provide some relief for local school districts. 

Tell the Senate to pass the budget on Monday. 

http://www.keystoneprogress.org/page/speakout/pabudget2

The revenue plan also includes the following changes that shift the burden away from non-profit and community organizations, and on to polluters and tobacco products:

• Eliminates the proposed tax on the arts and museums.
• Eliminates the proposed tax on small games of chance run by non-profit groups like the American Legion, churches and other community groups.
• Imposes a severance tax on natural gas drilling.  This will bring in over $100 million a year from this highly risky, polluting industry.  The money will go to the general fund as well as to the counties and municipalities where the drilling occurs, and to low income heating and energy assistance, and to the Environmental Stewardship and the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Fund.
• Imposes a tax on cigars and smokeless tobacco that will bring in over $50 million a year.  PA is the only state that taxes cigarettes that doesn’t tax these products.

10 DOCTORS – 28 CITIES – 18 STATES – 30 DAYS

1 MESSAGE:

“SINGLE PAYER NOW!”

FROM  OREGON  TO  PITTSBURGH AND THEN ON TO

THE WHITE HOUSE!

THIS “CARE-A-VAN” OF DOCTORS IS TRAVELING ACROSS THE COUNTRY DEMANDING SINGLE-PAYER FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS.“We’re mad as hell because our health care system is run by people who profit from illness”, says Dr. Paul Hochfeld, “The rest of the civilized world has test driven single payer and it works. But elected officials in America won’t even allow a discussion.”

THE “MAD AS HELL DOCTORS” WILL BE IN PITTSBURGH FOR A

 TOWN HALL MEETING      

 TUESDAY, SEPT. 29^TH, 7 PM  

At the Letter Carriers Union Hall, (Branch 84), 841 California Avenue, on the North Side.

(On California Ave. between Brighton Rd. and the large Post Office Facility, off-street parking available.)

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

Get Mad.      Stay Mad.     Make History.