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4 Ballot Questions May 18: Vote No/No/Yes/Yes
Thanks to Kennett Area Dems for the above. Read more here, including why the first 2 questions attempt to set aside the usual process of checks and balances and the dire practical and financial consequences that could follow if they are passed. Note that the 4th...
PA House Dems introduce a range of measures to defend voting rights and other fundamentals of democracy
From the PA House Democratic Policy Committee: DEFENDING DEMOCRACY The November 2020 election was the most secure in history, with record turnout across Pennsylvania. Before Election Day, county officials asked the legislature to make some small changes that would...
Statement by President Biden on the Attack on the Right to Vote in Georgia
March 26, 2021 • Speeches and Remarks [n.b. keep your eye on Harrisburg as well!] More Americans voted in the 2020 elections than any election in our nation’s history. In Georgia we saw this most historic demonstration of the power of the vote twice – in November and...
Controller’s Office wins Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting
Congratulations to Chester County Controller Margaret Reif and her hard-working office for being recognized by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada with a prestigious Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial...
Pennsylvania Vaccination Distribution Plan
As the PA DOH image shows, total population is just one factor; age 65+ population and number of Covid cases and deaths also figure in the formula. And educators and support staff are on their own schedule now, prioritized for the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) vaccine....
Real Help for Hard Times: Senator Casey explains the American Rescue Plan
From Senator Robert Casey's e-Newsletter, 3/12/21 President Biden just signed the American Rescue Plan, and real relief is finally on its way to the American people. Once implemented, this historic legislation will put more money into the pockets of working families,...
Rep. Dianne Herrin (D-156) issues budget position paper
Rep. Dianne Herrin, who took office in January representing the 156th district, has commented that "leadership ... is taking a solid position, considering your entire constituency and the broader impacts on them and our community, and leading everyone toward a common...
America must be better than the darkness of the past four years
by CCDC Chair Dick Bingham Over the past few weeks we have watched as Republican state committees across the country have methodically sought to remove diverse voices from their ranks -- censuring established Republican officials who have dutifully carried forward...
ROVITO, JUDGES McLAUGHLIN, LANE & SPURGEON TOP CHESCO DEMOCRATS ENDORSED SLATE EARNING 65% THRESHOLD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ROVITO, JUDGES McLAUGHLIN, LANE & SPURGEON TOP CHESCO DEMOCRATS ENDORSED SLATE EARNING 65% THRESHOLD County Row Officers Maisano, Reif, and Van de Krol welcome Sophia Garcia-Jackson Endorsed For Chester County Coroner West Chester, PA...
Even worse than an unfavorable Ground Hog Day!
from Rep. Kristine Howard (D-167): If you thought the worst of the bad news you would hear on Groundhog Day was that the rodent prognosticator from Punxatawney saw its shadow and we can expect six more weeks of winter, think again. The Republicans in the Pennsylvania...
FDR born, January 30, 1882
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born on January 30, 1882, was the 32nd President from 1933 until his death in 1945. The New Deal that he implemented remains a textbook strategy for pulling the nation out of crisis, reducing inequalities, and involving all Americans in the...
Biden thinks big
Time to review what the President said on Wednesday. View and read it here. Every word counts: "A cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer...."
Let the healing begin, finally
by Dick Bingham, chair, CCDC, in Daily Local News, 1/20/21 Shortly after the election I wrote on these pages (November 9, 2020) that it was time to come together as a county, as a state, and as a nation. Since then, however, rhetoric has grown more heated, tensions...
From Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem
The ending vision of Amanda Gorman's poem read at President Biden's inauguration: ...We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one. We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the West. We will rise from the windswept Northeast where our forefathers first...
Bringing America together, uniting our people
...Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face, anger, resentment and hatred, extremism, lawlessness,...
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