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"Welcome to Pennsylvania, Mr. Pappagiorgio."

January 6, 2010

TweetBreaking news: We just legalized table games in Pennsylvania casinos by a vote of 103-89. This also means that the changes to the Washington County Local Share process are now law, which means every municipality in the County (except North Strabane) will receive $25,000 plus $10 per person to keep local taxes down. More later; [...]

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"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of a budget…"

September 11, 2009

Tweet Breaking News: Tentative Budget Agreement Reached I am happy to announce that a tentative budget agreement has been worked out to give Pennsylvania a prudent spending plan for the 2009-10 fiscal year. The best part of the news is that, as so many of my constituents made loud and clear, it contains no broad-based [...]

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"I haven't got a brain… only straw. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking… don't they?"

January 8, 2009

State Rep. Jesse White, D-Cecil, shook his head and gave a quick retort.
“If my dad got $2 million a year, I wouldn’t want to be that separate,” he said, causing an outburst of laughter from fellow panelists.

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An article, a video and a postcard from the NRA; it's like a political Gordie Howe Hat Trick.

October 28, 2008

TweetWith only one week left until Election Day, the crazy will undoubtedly be flying fast and furious, but I’m going to do my best to get as much posted as possible. I’ve got three items for you today. First, thanks to my friends at the National Rifle Association for mailing out postcards to all of [...]

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What Makes a Politician a Maverick?

October 11, 2008

TweetAs I watched the recent vice presidential debate, I couldn’t help but cringe every time I heard Gov. Sarah Palin describe herself and running mate John McCain as a “couple of mavericks.” Political views aside, it just didn’t make much sense to me that you get to be a maverick simply by declaring yourself as [...]

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Midday Mixer in Midway

October 3, 2008

Tweet Today I spoke at the monthly meeting of the Midway Senior Citizens group; the talk primarily centered on how the Legislature has delivered on property tax relief from legalized gaming, plus a clarification about the use of the Washington County Local Share money from the Meadows Casino. We had a very nice conversation and [...]

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Time to “take a deep breath” on the attack ads

September 25, 2008

Tweet “You can win if you run a smart, disciplined campaign. If you studiously say nothing; nothing that causes you trouble; nothing that’s a gaffe; nothing that shows you might think the wrong thing; nothing that shows you think. But it just isn’t worthy of us, is it?” I wish I could attribute those words [...]

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Parades, Fairs, Press Conferences, A Meeting Gone Horribly Wrong, Toasting to Water with Water, Hustling Pool with the Kids, Knocking on Doors again, and The Dungeons and Dragons guy is royally creeping us out. No, he really is creeping us all out. We're not kidding.

August 18, 2008

TweetIt figures. Now that the traffic on my blog has reached an all-time high, I have become too busy to do regular updates. A whole lot has happened in the past couple of weeks. Here’s a not-so quick recap: I recently spent the weekend in Burgettstown, where I had a booth set up for Burgettstown [...]

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The era of the "Ten Word" attack ad is upon us… good grief

July 25, 2008

Tweet I must have been too busy working in the grown-up world to notice it, but apparently the political games have begun. Someone brought to my attention an ad that ran in a local “newspaper” that I won’t grace with free publicity here. The ad runs as follows (poor sentence structure and all): Trust me [...]

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