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Act 18 Jun 30 HB 15 Pennsylvania Web Accountability andTransparency

(PennWATCH) Act

TIER 3 FOR LIBERTY All Members Unanimous Vote

The Vote was unanimous in both House and Senate and will be

graded All Members because all legislators and the Governor willget equal credit.

PennWATCH Pennsylvania Web Accountability Transparency andContract Hub allows anyone to track how the government is spending taxdollars using a searchable online database. This is a major step forward inbringing transparency to State Government and allowing The Forgotten

Taxpayer to follow the money.

The Pennsylvania Web Accountability, Transparency and Contract Hub, or

PennWATCH, as it is known, was one of the first measures Republicanspushed out of the House this spring after reclaiming majority control fromDemocrats. It became law with Gov. Tom Corbett's signature on June 30.

The Web site, which the Governor's Office of Administration willhost, will launch by Dec. 31, 2012. The new Web site will includespending information; contractor data; state tax collections and federalrevenue received; and the name, position and salary of every stateemployee.

web linkJim Christiana

The vote was unanimous and, yet, under Democratic House Leadership, anidentical bill (HB 1460 of 2009 also introduced by Rep. Jim Christiana) wasnever brought to the floor for a vote. A similar bill had been passed inRepublican controlled Senate in 2009.

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There is a clear difference between Democrats and the new RepublicanMajority (to be distinguished from the Perzel Republican Majority).

For some background on HB 1460 of 2009 identical to HB 15 of 2011, seeState Spending Transparency Nathan Benefield Commonwealth Foundation19 June 2009) and Spending Transparency & Accountability (CommonwealthFoundation 3 December 2009)

Act 22 Jun 30 HB 960 Public Welfare Code - omnibus amendmentsTIER 3 FOR LIBERTY - yea vote will add 50 points to Legislatorsor Governors grade and a nay vote will subtract 50 points fromthe grade.

This Act makes cuts to welfare spending, cuts down on fraud and abuse,gives DPW secretary more power to impose additional reforms, savestaxpayers, ensures welfare dollars go to the truly needy and saves theForgotten Taxpayer $5 MILLION DOLLARS.

Senate Fiscal Note $5,000,000 in savings to taxpayers

House Fiscal Note : FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation is the vehicle forimplementation authority to achieve the anticipated state savings includedin the General Fund budget for the Department of Public Welfare and theDepartment of Corrections.

Specifically, the following state savings are included in the FY2011-12budget for DPW: $109million for the adjustment to the hospital assessment;$4.8million for the payment change for hospital readmissions; $10million forhospital low cost outliers payments; $16million for restructuring child carecopayments; $53.7million for new limits on dental and pharmacy benefits;$10million for imposition of copayments or premiums on families withloophole children or a total of $193.5million.

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The Department of Corrections budget assumes $4.5million in savings dueto the provision requiring hospitals to charge no more than medicalassistance rates for inpatient care provided to state/county prisoners.

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Act 25 Jun 30 SB 330 Taxpayer Relief Act - public referendumrequirements and installment payment of school real property taxes

TIER 3 FOR LIBERTY - A yea vote will add 50 points to Legislatorsor the Governors grade and a nay vote will subtract 50 pointsfrom the grade.

Ten exceptions laid out in the original law, Act 1 of 2005, allowed districtsto ask the state Department of Education -- instead of voters -- to raisetaxes above its index. Legislators removed seven of the 10 exceptions tothe voter referendum requirement, leaving pension obligations, specialeducation costs and existing or voter-approved debt as categories underwhich districts could apply.

House Fiscal NoteSenate Fiscal Note

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Act 46 Jul 7 HB 797 Workers' Compensation Act - cancer in theoccupation of firefighter

TIER 3 AGAINST LIBERTY - ALL MEMBERS UNANIMOUS VOTE

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50 points will be subtracted from the ALL MEMBERS

This was a very expensive vote for the citizens of Pennsylvania.

This bill (then HB 1231) was vetoed by former Governor Ed Rendellbecause it was too expensive. This is an unfunded mandate fallingon the local taxpayers and fire companies. However, this legislationthreatens public safety by raising the specter of cuts to essential services,or of forcing local governments to raise property taxes at the same timethat Pennsylvania families are struggling economically.

Unlike most occupational injuries or diseases, HB 1231 wouldestablish a presumption that any cancer diagnosis would be a result offirefighting activities and the benefit provider, in this case localgovernment, would bear the almost impossible burden to prove otherwise.

The current printer number of HB 1231 would only permit employers torebut the presumption of occupationally caused cancer by attempting toessentially prove a negative by requiring "proof of conduct or activitiesoutside of firefighting duties that posed a substantial risk of causing thecancer." This legislation also drastically differs from every other statecancer-presumption law, both because of this flawed rebuttable standardand because it would create the presumption for virtually every form ofcancer when medical science simply does not know what causes mostcancers.

While the total cost of this legislation is unknown which is a problem initself experts predict that it would be significant, and the burden would befelt through tax hikes, cuts to local services, or both and, even worse, thosecuts could be to firefighting activities. Municipal workers' compensationinsurance trusts predict drastic rate increases and question their ability toeven underwrite coverage of occupational cancer claims under this flawedbill. If municipalities lose this coverage, it could create a catastrophicfinancial situation.

House Fiscal Note: This legislation:

Designates cancer as an occupational disease;

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Provides that the cancer must be caused by exposure to a knowncarcinogen recognized as a Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agencyfor Research on Cancer;

Stipulates that occupational disease claims under this act can only be filedby firefighters:

1. Who have four or more years of continuous firefighting service.

2. Can establish direct exposure to a Group 1 carcinogen.3. Successfully passed a physical examination prior to asserting a claim, orprior to engaging in firefighting duties, which revealed no evidence ofcancer.

Provides that the presumption under the act may be rebutted bysubstantial competent evidence that shows that the firefighters cancer wasnot caused by the occupation of firefighting.

States that a claim made by a member of a volunteer fire company must bebased on evidence of direct exposure to a Group 1 carcinogen asdocumented by a report filed to the Pennsylvania Fire Information ReportingSystem.

UNFUNDED MANDATE- No fiscal impact to the Commonwealth willresult from the provisions in the bill. However, local governmententities, trusts, municipalities, and those volunteer fire companies which areself-insured, may experience additional costs due to increased payments for

benefits and the resultant potential increases in the entities workerscompensation premiums.

ACT 130 Dec 22 SB 1054 Capital Budget Act of 2011-2012

TIER 3 AGAINST LIBERTY- A yea vote will subtract 50 points tolegislators or the Governors grade and a nay vote will add 50

points from the grade.

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This bill borrows $1.6 billion dollars for projects, many of which have veryquestionable justifications. Even with regard to those that do, there is aquestion of whether the taxpayers can afford them and what the impact ofadditional government borrowing has on job creation.

Who Will Stop Dominic Pileggi?

Comcast-30 Million Dollars; Janney-10 Million Dollars

A $1.6 billion dollar borrowing and a statewide capital project, politicizedcorporate welfare, bill was rushed through the Pennsylvania GeneralAssembly and Governor Signed on December 19th (ACT 130 Dec 22SB 1054 Capital Budget Act of 2011-2012) ; $460 million of that will go to197 projects in Philadelphia. In that group about a dozen are recognizableas local to Democratically controlled Northwest Philadelphia. See entire listof pork below. It is all a matter of record.

Real Life Pirates arent asentertaining to the Forgotten Taxpayer who is forced to pay for politicalpork.

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Disgracefully, the Senate voted UNANIMOUSLY for Debt for Pork ACT 130!! Dominic Pileggi is the Majority Leader responsible for engineering this.

This dramatic graph demonstrates where we are headed as more and moreof Pennsylvanias Taxpayers are forced by government to pay Debt Servicewithout seeing more jobs or seeing that they are better off.

Commonwealth Foundations Nate Benefield, the premier policyanalyst in Pennsylvania, explains the Act 130 Capital Budget of 2011,

including RACP, Redevelopment Assistance Capital Projects Time to EndBorrowing for Corporate Welfare 19 December 2011 Nathan Benefield

Tweedledee Tweedledum Republicans Finance Democrats with TaxpayerFunds.

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Democratic Mega Donor Patrick Burns, president and CEO ofFresh Grocer, Sells First Lady Michelle Obama with his multi-million forgotten taxpayer financedvision approved of and enacted with connivance of Republican State Senate, Republican StateHouse and Republican Penna. Governor. Millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars later, is anyoneother than Pat Burns and Michelle Obama any better off?

Republican State Senate Leadership 2011-2012 the Conniving RINOs undercutting Republican Limited Government principles and The Forgotten

Taxpayer

Jim Fosters Germantown Newspapers highlighted some of the obviouspolitical projects in Democratically controlled Northwest Philadelphia andone has to ask why Republican controlled House, a Republican controlledSenate and a Republican Governor fund Democratic Pork Projects which areused to buy Democratic votes? Is this what we can expect from the

Republican Leadership?

$2.5 Million Dollars in Funding for Mt. Airy Transit (photos of vacant lotsdramatizes the cynical political appropriation.) Chelten Plaza UpdateSeptember 1; Appeal Chelten Plaza Zoning (Yvonne Haskins, Esq. 15September 201 1 ); Chelten Plaza Protesters Take to the Street (21 July2011); Mt. Airys Yvonne Haskins ( 21 July 2011) Pat Burns and His Circle ofFriends 21 September 2012); Donna Miller Sells Out Germantown Again(10 October 2011); Mr. ATM ( 7 April 2011); Germantown Shortchanged inRail Station Restoration Work(21 July 2011).

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RACPLIST PDF Philadelphia List (Germantown Newspapers link)

Bill #0906-00 $3,000,000 Obama Funder multimillion OnePerCenterPat Burns Chelten and Pulaski Revitalization

Bill #0363-00 $2,197,598 Obama Funder Brian Roberts ComcastTowers, part of total of $30,000,000 appropriation. A ten year taxabatement was not enough. Is too much never enough?

Bill #0247-00 $850,000 Chaka Fattah affiliated House of Imoja

Bill #1041-00 $ 2,500,000 Mt. Airy Transit Village (a vacant lot)

Links to Original Sources

RACP Grants Re-Released By Governor Corbett full List State Web Site

Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program Governors Budget OfficeOfficial Web Site

Philadelphia List RCAP (Germantown Newspapers Link)

Millions for Billionaires what crony capitalism looks like inPennsylvania.

Why? Because the Billionaires need it more than the Taxpayers.

Millions of dollars taken by the government from productive

Taxpayers are sent to Billions Dollar private, very profitable BillionDollar corporations. What is the sense of that kind of Redistributionof the Wealth make? Or are these politicized economic andinvestment decisions masks for crony capitalist vote buying?

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Franklin Mint Expansion Exton, Penna.

RACP Grants Re-Released By Governor Corbett Full List Governors BudgetOffice

Excerpts:

2 103800 Janney Montgomery Scott Headquarters Philadelphia$ 10,000,000

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3 105000 Teva Pharmaceuticals Philadelphia $ 2,500,000 02/14/11138 088201 Shop Rite Montgomery $ 500,00007/26/11

173 37750002 Franklin Mint Delaware County $ 5, 000,000 08/03/11

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ACT 131 Dec 22 SB 1249 Congressional Redistricting Act of2011

TIER 3 AGAINST LIBERTY 50 POINTS MAJOR IMPACT ON LIBERTYALL MEMBERS

This is a complicated bill containing good provisions and badprovisions and there are valid reasons for voting yea or nay sothis will be graded ALL MEMBERS and all members will have 50point SUBTRACTED to their grade.

Because the 2001 Districts are, as of now because of population shifts, outof balance, the 2001 District Lines are, therefore, unconstitutional.

A fine mess our General Assembly has gotten us into. Apparently, theythought the Republican majority Supreme Court would see itself as

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Republican rather than an independent, separate and equal branch ofgovernment to check and balance power.

Or, more simply, why did the General Assembly wait until the last minute toperform one of their fundamental Constitutional critical functions to ensurefree and fair elections?

Overturned by Order of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court 25 Jan 2012

Official Commonwealth Redistricting: The Legislative Guide to Redistricting

Justice Baers comments reported at capitolwireBREAKING:Capitolwires Pete DeCoursey interviewed Supreme Court JusticeMax Baer. Here are the standout quotes:I think this years election is going to go on the 2001 lines, Baer said in aninterview with Capitolwire. I think that is what the majority intended and Ithink that is what a reading of the chief justices order said.

Justice Eakins comments Justice J. Michael Eakin, a Republican, said he did

not argue with the "reordering of constitutional priorities by the majority,"but said he did not see a need to make it retroactive.

"Computers or not, drawing a new plan using new rules will not happen intime for this year's elections," Eakin wrote in a concurring and dissentingopinion.

Redistricting May Delay Primary Post-Gazette 4 February 2012 The existingdistricts were drawn in 2001 and because of population shifts, they arepresently out of balance and are, probably, unconstitutional.

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