Democratic voters in the 117th District, please write in Mark Barrett for
State Representative on Tuesday, April 24th!
Due to the Supreme Court ruling regarding
the redistricting plans that shifted the boundaries back to their 2001 borders
so close to the petition due-date, Mark didn't have enough time to collect the
amount of signatures needed for ballot access, despite an amazing push in the
final days. He is leading a true grassroots campaign to get on the November
ballot to represent the voters in the 117th! You may know him from radio call-in
shows as "Duke from Dallas". He will have all party resources available for his
run.
An accomplished software developer, Mark will stand up to corporate
lobbyists and the gas industry in Harrisburg, and be a stalwart and responsible
leader for clean, safe drinking water and he will work to end loopholes that
allow corporations to essentially do as they please with no oversight. He
understands that when our students are doing well, our state is doing well, and
while Tom Corbett aims to destroy our educational system by cutting it down to
the bone, Mark will restore funding to our public schools. If you feel that
Karen Boback has been unresponsive to citizens, running unopposed will make her
even less so. She needs to be held accountable for her abysmal,
Corbett-enabling record in Harrisburg.
Her recent vote to allow Republicans in
Harrisburg to supersede local zoning laws allows the gas industry to override
the will of the people in communities across Pennsylvania for the sake of
profit; that's just one of many issues where Rep. Boback has sided with special
interests over the people she was elected to represent. She voted for Tom
Corbett's disastrous budget two years in a row, crippling public education and
further burdening local taxpayers. Essential PA services, like Adult Basic heath
care & Medicaid, that help everyday Pennsylvanians, have been sacrificed on
the altar of "deficit reduction" in order to give more tax breaks for
corporations. Unbelievably, Boback even proposed raising taxes on seniors and
low income families through new taxes on food, clothing, and retirement income,
in order to eliminate taxes for wealthy property owners!
We deserve better, and Mark is the right man for the job. Six years of
Karen Boback is enough. So this Tuesday, please write in Mark Barrett for State
Representative - he won't work for the gas industry, but he will work for
YOU!
Casey Evans
2nd District Chairman
Dallas
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