I know it's hard to keep up with all the news out of the 3 ring circus going on in Washington. It's like trying to take a drink out of a fire hose, you may get your lips wet but if you try to swallow it all your head will get blown off.
Now the EPA want's to relax the rules and bring back Asbestos. This is after 40 years and billions of dollars trying to get rid of the stuff that is scientifically proven to cause cancer just by breathing it.
I really can't blame the part-time occupant of the White House for this because he has no idea what is going on in his own administration.
The Russian company Uralasbest, one of the world’s largest producers and sellers of
asbestos, has taken to adorning pallets of its product with a seal of
Trump’s face.
Northampton County Councilman Glenn Geissinger launched his
congressional campaign Tuesday for the PA-17th CD against U.S. Rep. Matthew Cartwright. He is the first Republican to announce and we can expect more.
His announcement via the Morning Call: "I want Matt Cartwright to understand that solutions come out of the
private sector. They come out of people like you and me going to work
every day to make America a better place. They don't come out of adding
more regulations. They don't come by scaling back on our ability to
produce jobs,"....I am going to do what it takes to win in order to bring what these people think government should be to Washington,"....
Sounds good until this;
The people of northeast Pennsylvania need someone in the nation's
capital who would go up against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
and protect blue-collar jobs and the coal industry that dominates the
northern part of the district.
The coal industry in PA is just about dead in Pennsylvania and employs less than 9000 people statewide. It seems that it is a tenet of faith for Republicans that the EPA is some sort of evil organization that people hate. The last time I checked people like clean air and water.
He also took a shot at the Democratic House Leader Geissinger painted himself as a better fit for the district than Cartwright, whom he labeled a "Nancy Pelosi Democrat."
This is so 2008. Trying to tie a local candidate to the soft spoken grandmother from Sodom on the San Andreas hasn't worked beyond the people who would never vote for a Democrat anyway.
I would argue that Pelosi was a more effective Speaker than John Boehner who can't even keep the government working because he can't deal with a bunch of anti-government anarchists.
Kathleen Kane has emerged from her contested primary with momentum, a poll
conducted by her campaign shows. She leads Republican Dave Freed 48 percent to
27 percent.
The hard fought primary with Patrick Murphy definitely raised her name ID and it shows in this poll. I don't discount internal polls like many do because if the polling outfit get's it wrong they lose credibility and aren't likely to get hired again. I think that primary campaigns help the eventual winner unless they get out of hand like what happened in the 2008 10th CD Republican primary contest. Governor Tom Cabot and the PA GOP driving out John Rafferty may have hurt Freed. I'm not ready to declare victory for Kane unlike my friend from NEPartsan"Kane, I think, is a winner. I’ll even call it now." I thought that Murphy would win the primary easy, shows what I know. Campaigns matter and there is long way to go.
David Freed put out a web video that I picked up from his Facebook page. It's titled "I Represent the Commonwealth."
He starts out giving his qualifications saying he is the only elected prosecutor in the race who has been efficient running his office. Then he gives the crowd of Republicans some red meat bringing up the death penalty. At 2:20 in the video he says " the drug dealers will not know what hit them when we get into the Attorney General's office." I'm not sure what to make of that statement. Is he admitting that all t he last Republican Attorney General's have failed in the War on Drugs. More and more people have been locked up over drug offenses over the last 50 years and yet the poison is more available than ever before. That flies in the face of his statement that we should be smart on crime and should be talking about how to keep people out of jail. How many politicians have promised to lock up all the drug dealers? That's worked out well. Such claptrap. Then he rails against unconstitutional power grabs by the Federal Government like Obamcare and "unconstitutional" EPA regulations. "We are going to stand up to the Federal Government.." That should work out, after you get sick because your air and water are polluted you won't be able to get health care. Does this guy want to be a prosecutor or a legislator?
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