Seventy Volunteer on Importance of Voter ID Education
Faye Anderson is volunteering for '70.' Faye Anderson, who we last spoke to about her web-based Voter ID app Cost of Freedom, is out volunteering for the Committee of Seventy outside polling places today. Their mission: Inform the public on the new Voter ID law. She says while she’s been handing out the Seventy fliers she was given—which explain which...
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Committee of 70 Holding Training Sessions for Voter ID Education
The Committee of Seventy notes its Voter ID coalition will be sending “trained non-partisan volunteers to every city polling place to talk to voters about the Voter ID law” during the April 24 primary, during which time you do not necessarily need ID, but you will be asked for it and told to bring one in November. They’ll be holding training sessions for...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Priest Abuse Case Gets Sicker
Priest abuse cases are always bad. Sure. But there’s something about the Philadelphia case, specifically, that sort of makes me throw up a little, each time I read about it. Maybe it’s the detailed, alleged maniacal perversion of the individual, uncharged priests who will never see the inside of a jail cell or that Cardinal Lynn apparently let it all happen....
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DAILY GRINDER: Philly Rep. Wants to Crack down on Porn–In Cars!
Mobile peepshow. So, the 2011-2012 legislative session in Harrisburg has seen 3,628 bills introduced, and 164 signed into law. Many of those bills not signed into law (and some that were) are downright ridiculous. For instance, Sen. Gene Yaw wants to make “the venomous 6-foot Timber Rattlesnake” Pennsylvania’s official state reptile. (They have...
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Election 2012: Santorum Says ‘Poll Shows We can Beat Obama’
"Let's play a game. It's called 'I win'." Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has a new message on the campaign trail: Don’t worry about the math, unless we’re talking about polls. And in that case, he says, he can beat Barack Obama in November and Mitt Romney can’t. So, really, what’s the point of the primaries at all? “In...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: $1.9 Million in State Budget to Honor Standup Comedian
After making the Philadelphia University “Arlen Specter Library” earmark a sticking point of his campaign against Pennsylvania Democratic uber spending and corruption in 2010, Gov. Tom Corbett recently signed off on $1.9 million for the very same library, claiming he had no choice! That building at PU will hold some of former Senator Specter’s papers...
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Election 2012: New Poll Shows Rick Santorum OVER Obama—But is it Trustworthy?
To hear the Rick Santorum campaign tell it, you’re just a donation away from their guy becoming president. It’s not the general they’re worried about if you want a Republican leading the next four years—it’s the primary. Because if the former Pennsylvania senator can get passed past Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, he’s set to beat President Barack...
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2012 Election: Drudge? Palin? Cain? What Killed Newt?
In a Republican primary that’s become cliché in its weirdness, another candidate has seemingly crashed and burned over the last week. It’s former Speaker Newt Gingrich. And after winning South Carolina by double-digits, it looks like he’s set to lose Florida by a similar margin. It’s hard to tell how, exactly, this happened. But it might come down to...
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