by Rep. Melissa Shusterman, D-157 This past summer, Republicans in the Pennsylvania House and Senate rammed through a bill with several proposed constitutional amendments that would limit personal rights instead of protecting them. One of the amendments included in SB 106 would…
Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania, Sierra Club, Penn Future and Clean Water Action have rated PA legislators based on their votes on 19 bills in the 2021-22 session. This excerpted map shows ratings for districts fully or partly in Chester County…
West Chester, PA. (October 13, 2022) A capacity crowd of nearly 250 enthusiastic Chester County Democrats on Monday attended the county committee fall dinner fundraiser at the Desmond Hotel in Malvern to hear from their party’s US Senate, Governor and Congressional…
Let us count the votes! Leave a reply by Rep. Kristine Howard (D-167) The Harrisburg Republican hypocrisy on voting and voting rights is stunning. In 2019 the Pennsylvania legislature, in rare bipartisan fashion, passed Act 77 making no-excuse, absentee voting legal…
letter in the Delaware Valley Journal, 10/5/22, by CCDC Chairwoman Charlotte Valyo On Tuesday, November 8, Americans will once again head to the polls to exercise one of our most important rights – the right to vote. This year, however,…
In this newsletter: The Story We Need to Tell Message from the Chair Candidate Spotlight: Cathy Spahr, PA House District 160 Voting Rights are on the Ballot this November Your 'One Thing' to do this Month Calendar THE STORY WE…
by CCDC Chairwoman Charlotte Valyo The United States of America is a nation of immigrants. We have been since the day we were founded, and we are a stronger, more successful, and more prosperous country because of it. How we…
"‘A Crisis Coming’: The Twin Threats to American Democracy," David Leonhardt's thorough New York Times report, concludes that "American democracy has never faced a threat quite like the current one." Among a variety of problems such as the constitutional overweighting…
Education Alert! The following open letter signed by 79 school board members from across the state shows the high stakes in the November 8 election. If the R candidate, Doug Mastriano, becomes Governor, his plan is to slash already insufficient…
It used to be that Republicans stood by the basically 18th-century US Constitution and Democrats wanted to modernize it. Now, with some exceptions like the Second Amendment and the Electoral College, many R's are eager to alter the Constitution, and…