Posts Tagged by Ed Rendell

From today’s Harrisburg Online…

Governor Ed Rendell has set a Special Election for the May 18th Primary Election Day to fill the unexpired term of the late Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Johnstown…Republicans and Democratic Party officials each will nominate a candidate for the May ballot to fill out the term…in addition to the election for the rest of Murtha’s term, voters…

The UPMC Minute Lady & Baseball Tickets

And its no surprise that PA still needs some major ethics reform.  Yesterday’s Post-Gazette had a story about a Pittsburgh based lobbyist, Leslie Merrill McCombs,  being fined by the State Ethics Commission for lobbying Ed Rendell for Lionsgate Films.  (Film rep fined over lobbying of Rendell, Post-Gazette 9/9/09).  That name sounded familiar – McCombs is…

PA Dems Innauguration Event – Celbrate with Ed Rendell

Image by JamSki via Flickr If you are heading to Washington DC for the Inauguration and want to spend $150… Please join Governor Ed Rendell, Senator Bob Casey, Chairman T. J. Rooney, membersof the Pennsylvania Congressional delegation and other Pennsylvania Democrats for anight of fun and celebration of the Obama-Biden 11-point victory in Pennsylvania! The…

Clippings from September 19th

Here are some blog posts, article and links that you may have missed. Onorato holds firm on withholding Port Authority subsidy – Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato is standing pat in his vow to withhold nearly $28 million from the Port Authority until a new labor agreement is negotiated, even if it it forces…

No smoking!

Today, Governor Ed Rendell signed the recently passed smoking ban into law (link). The state-wide ban will take effect in 90 days, or on September 11, 2008. Get ready to breathe easy.

Who Are Pennsylvania’s Delegates?

Pt 2. The People If you missed yesterday’s post, I broke down how Pennsylvania will be selecting our 187 delegates.  They are broken down into five categories:  Unpledged Political Leaders and Elected Officials (PLEOs) and Unpledged Add-On Delegates (Superdelegates), Pledged Delegates (by Congressional District), Pledged At-Large Delegates, and Pledged PLEOs. In this post, I’ll take a…

Legitimate Scare or Joe B’s Passive-Aggressive Response to Selling the Turnpike

From Today’s Post-Gazette: Terror plot on the Turnpike? Well, not exactly Suspicious activity that placed the toll road on alert turns out to be two men taking pictures for a prospective bidder So was this a legitimate security concern, or is turning the sale of the turnpike into a terrorist threat-like issue, Joe Brimmeier’s way…