September 15, 2008

Reform Group’s Media Campaign Urges DeWeese To Allow Votes on Senate Reform Bills

House Majority Leader won’t allow votes on 7 Reform Bills passed Unanimously by Senate

NEW CUMBERLAND, PA- House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese says he supports a reform agenda, but he won’t even allow votes on 7 reform bills passed unanimously by the State Senate.

Therefore Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, a group well known for its efforts to repeal our state’s illegal pay raise via billboards, radio ads, and ‘Remember the Pay Raise’ bumper stickers has launched a new media effort to push the Senate’s reform bills.

The strong radio ad campaign has begun airing on 4 popular radio stations in DeWeese’s district urging the House Majority Leader to allow votes on the 7 reform bills passed unanimously by the Senate.

Under DeWeese’s leadership, these 7 reform bills have gone nowhere.

The 7 Senate Bills: 986 (bonus ban) 1499 (limit state employee vehicle use) 729 (post government salary info online) 467 (increase penalties for Sunshine Law violations) 903 (prohibit state agency consulting contracts unless reviewed by AG or competitively bid) 1201 (post state plane info online) 1015 (inform public when tax dollars used in advertising)

(See attached Scarnati/Pileggi letter for more on the 7 Senate reform bills and their unanimous passage in the upper chamber.)

“All 7 of the Senate’s reform bills passed unanimously, with wide-ranging support from both Republican and Democratic Senators,” said Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania President Chris Lilik. “If Mr. DeWeese really believes in reform, he needs to do the right thing and allow votes on all 7 of these reform bills.”

To find the answer, you’ll need to hear the brand new NoNewPATaxes.com “Game Show Ed” ad airing today in markets all over Pennsylvania.

The NoNewPATaxes.com ads, a civic action project of the Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, push onward with a new emphasis on educating and informing Pennsylvanians about the Rendell-imposed budget crisis.

Today’s new “Game Show Ed” ad will be initially unveiled in the Pittsburgh, York-Lancaster, & Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle markets, with new markets coming very soon.

NoNewPATaxes.com ads will be appearing across the state as long as the budget stalemate ensues and Gov. Rendell continues to demand tax increases on working Pennsylvanians and job providers.

The “No New PA Taxes” air campaign originally urged 8 notable legislators in key media markets around the state to reject liberal Governor Ed Rendell’s call for 7 new taxes.

Click here for more on this important civic effort, and how you can aid our fight.

The NoNewPATaxes.com ads, a civic action project of the Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, will continue with a new emphasis on educating and informing Pennsylvanians about the Rendell-imposed budget crisis.

The new ad unveiled today, “Pennsylvania Held Hostage” will begin airing in the Pittsburgh, York-Lancaster, & Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle markets. The ad focuses on Pennsylvanians being held hostage by Gov. Rendell’s ransom demand for higher taxes to fund his pet projects. The ad shines the light of day on Rendell’s decision to try to leverage the layoffs of state workers in order to raise taxes on Pennsylvanians.

After being informed of Rendell’s shameful bait and switch, which represents everything that is wrong with Harrisburg, listeners are then urged to contact their elected officials regarding the budget shutdown.

NoNewPATaxes.com ads will be appearing across the state as long as the budget stalemate ensues and Gov. Rendell continues to demand tax increases on working Pennsylvanians and job providers.

The “No New PA Taxes” air campaign originally urged 8 notable legislators in key media markets around the state to reject liberal Governor Ed Rendell’s call for 7 new taxes.

Click here for more on this important civic effort, and how you can aid our fight.

The “No New PA Taxes” air campaign urges 8 notable legislators in key media markets around the state to reject liberal Governor Ed Rendell’s call for 7 new taxes.

The campaign features a web site, www.NoNewPaTaxes.com, and radio ads airing in the districts of 8 legislators, including: House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese of Greene County, House Minority Transportation Committee Chairman Rick Geist of Blair County, House Majority Policy Committee Chairman Todd Eachus of Luzerne County, Senate Education Committee Chairman Jim Rhoades of Schuylkill County, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Gib Armstrong, Senate Appropriations Committee Minority Chairman Gerald LaValle of Beaver County, Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, and Senate Finance Committee Minority Chairman John Wozniak.

The ads ask taxpayers to contact the targeted legislators and tell them to oppose Rendell’s new tax-and-spend agenda, which calls for as many as seven new, massive tax increases on such things as electricity, trash disposal, retail purchases, payrolls, and tobacco.

Click here for more on this important civic effort, and how you can aid our fight.

This union check-card provision would strip American workers of their right to vote by secret ballot on whether or not to form a union.

Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania today expanded their “No New PA Taxes” media campaign, with radio ads now airing on 3 stations within Pileggi’s district.

The “No New PA Taxes” air campaign urges 7 notable legislators in key media markets around the state to reject liberal Governor Ed Rendell’s call for 7 new taxes.

The campaign features a web site, www.NoNewPaTaxes.com, and radio ads airing in the districts of 7 legislators, including: House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese of Greene County, House Minority Transportation Committee Chairman Rick Geist of Blair County, House Majority Policy Committee Chairman Todd Eachus of Luzerne County, Senate Education Committee Chairman Jim Rhoades of Schuylkill County, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Gib Armstrong, Senate Appropriations Committee Minority Chairman Gerald LaValle of Beaver County, and Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi.

The ads ask taxpayers to contact the targeted legislators and tell them to oppose Rendell’s new tax-and-spend agenda, which calls for as many as seven new, massive tax increases on such things as electricity, trash disposal, retail purchases, payrolls, and tobacco.

Click here for more on this important civic effort, and how you can aid our fight.

According to the Post-Gazette, the public financing system he and Democrat Senator Dick Durbin are proposing would provide “about $2.8 billion nationwide for each two-year congressional cycle.”

Today’s first leg of the “No New PA Taxes” air campaign will urge 6 notable legislators in key media markets around the state to reject liberal Governor Ed Rendell’s call for 7 new taxes.

The campaign features a web site, www.NoNewPaTaxes.com, and radio ads airing in the districts of some of the General Assembly’s most notorious spendthrifts, including: House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese of Greene County, House Minority Transportation Committee Chairman Rick Geist of Blair County, House Majority Policy Committee Chairman Todd Eachus of Luzerne County, Senate Education Committee Chairman Jim Rhoades of Schuylkill County, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Gib Armstrong, and Senate Appropriations Committee Minority Chairman Gerald LaValle of Beaver County.

The ads ask taxpayers to contact the targeted legislators and tell them to oppose Rendell’s new tax-and-spend agenda, which calls for as many as seven new, massive tax increases on such things as electricity, trash disposal, retail purchases, payrolls, and tobacco.

Click here for more on this important civic effort, and how you can aid our fight.