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| Senator Pileggi (right) tours Chester's PPL Soccer Stadium with other business and government officials earlier this month. The stadium, first proposed by then Governor Ed Rendell and Senator Pileggi in 2008, was financed with $47 million of Pennsylvania tax dollars. |
What do you think our state Senator is fighting for in
Harrisburg?
You would think as President of Pennsylvania's State Senate, our Senator would be working overtime on matters important to the people of Parkesburg, Octorara and Southeast Pennsylvania like getting Pennsylvanians back to work or property tax reform.
You would think as President of Pennsylvania's State Senate, our Senator would be working overtime on matters important to the people of Parkesburg, Octorara and Southeast Pennsylvania like getting Pennsylvanians back to work or property tax reform.
Not Senator Dominic Pileggi. Instead of fighting for us in Harrisburg, Senator Pileggi is fighting for Washington.
Last week Pileggi introduce legislation that would amend Pennsylvania’s Election Code by allocating Electoral College votes based on the vote for president in each congressional district, rather than the state as a whole.
According to Philly.com under the plan introduced by Pileggi, Barack Obama would have walked away with just 11 of Pennsylvania’s 21 Electoral votes in the 2008 presidential election while challenger John McCain would have received the other 10.
In a press release Pileggi stated his reasoning for proposing the legislation, "This proposal will more fairly align Pennsylvania's electoral college votes with the results of the popular vote."
Pileggi of course hopes his efforts will re-engineer the Electoral College process since no Republican candidate has won the Pennsylvania presidential vote since George H. W. Bush beat Michael Dukakis in 1988, 23 years ago.
Senator Pileggi’s Republican party controls the State Senate, the State House and the Governor’s office; all three branches of Pennsylvania’s government. Yet, with all that power consolidated in the hands of a single party, changing how Electoral Votes are allocated is the best the party can do.
I offer two suggestions for Senator Pileggi.
First, in the free-market that are elections, for 5 straight presidential election Pennsylvanians have s voiced their preference for the Democratic presidential candidate. If you want your party’s presidential candidates to have a chance at any of Pensylvania's 21 Electoral Votes, work harder within your Republican Party to nominate candidates more in sync with the views of everyday Pennsylvanians.
Second, if you expect to win your reelection battle in 2012, starting today you must fight for voters in Parkesburg and the Octorara region by fixing Pennsylvania’s long-broken property taxes system.
Carry our water Senator. Fight for us Mr. Pileggi, not your friends in Washington.
2 comments:
Whatever happened to may the best candidate win? It has become may the best party at cheating win. I find these issues of voter suppression, rule changing, and good old gerrymandering to win so disheartening. Why can't we have an honest contest, where people give their views on the state of our government and what they would do to change or improve those policies and programs, then let the people vote. ALL the people with no tricks to assure victory of a particular group. If Mr. Pileggi feels his party's policies are what the people want then why not try winning honestly or.... losing graciously.
As a registered democrat, I want to agree. But the electoral college is a pretty outdated system. I would 100% support senator Pileggi's proposal if it occurred in all states as part of a federal mandate, making sure democrats in red states were represented. Obviously, his proposal is an attempt to shift power back in the republican direction.
If everyone did it at once, it would probably be a good move for our country.
That being said, I really dislike the Republicans. At a time where homosexuals in the military are getting boo'ed for coming out, people are cheering for stories of people dying because they don't have access to health care, and the idea of restoring taxes to 2000 levels is considered class warfare, I want to see the republican party with as little power as possible.
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