The Manheim Township and Warwick Democrats are sponsoring an open forum with Tim Potts, co-founder of Democracy Rising, on July 7th at the Manheim Township Municipal Building. The forum will discuss the possibility of a Constitutional Convention to reform state government. Discussion will begin at 7:00 pm.
Democracy Rising is a non-partisan organization focused on educating citizens about their ability to achieve lasting reforms in state government. Democracy Rising poses the question, “Why doesn’t our state government have the highest standards of public integrity in America?”
Corruption within the legislative caucuses and the inability to pass a state budget in a timely fashion highlight the need for a Constitutional Convention Referendum.
The BONUSGATE grand-jury report was an extremely rare supplemental pronouncement on the state of our government, and had many specific recommendations for restructuring and reforming the legislature.
The Pennsylvania Senate and House each have a Democratic and a Republican caucus, organizations headed by their party leaders, staffed mainly by the party faithful, and funded by taxpayers. The report states that the 2,800 legislative employees amount to nine for each representative and 17 for each senator.
“Despite the best efforts of numerous witnesses before the grand jury, nobody was able to justify such a large number of employees for this body,” the jurors wrote.
The report also calls for a limited constitutional convention, saying it is concerned that the General Assembly “will remain in its ‘time warp’ and meddle with, obfuscate, ignore or kill every recommendation.”
As of this writing, it appears that once again the Commonwealth’s budget may fail to be adopted by the fiscal deadline, repeating last year’s budget crisis.
Please join voters from around Lancaster County for this important discussion.
Meeting will begin at 7:00 pm. The Manheim Township Municipal Building is located at 1840 Municipal Dr, Lancaster, PA 17601.
For more information, contact Doreen Kreiner at 717-393-7915 / [email protected]
The Manheim Township and Warwick Democratic Committees are sponsoring this forum as an information session. The opinions of the participants in the event are not necessarily the position of the Committees.
The members of the state’s legislature call themselves “public servants.” I say this is an outright lie. Servants obey the wishes and commands of their employers. How many times have the legislators voted against the overwhelming wishes of their constituents?
Originally legislators were expected to serve a few years in service to their electorate, then return to private life while others took their
place as true public servants. Today “public servants” make a career out of “serving the public.” Their main goal is to be re-elected
so they can maintain their status. I maintain that very few are true public servants but rather are POLITICIANS!!!!!