Dermody: As State Faces Real Problems, GOP Focuses on Rigging Future Elections
State representatives Frank Dermody and Mike Hanna submit a column to the Plum-Oakmont Patch.
By state Rep. Frank Dermody and Rep. Mike Hanna Dermody is an Oakmont resident and represents the 33rd legislative district, which includes Oakmont and a portion of Plum. Here we go again. Just as we begin deliberations on some of Pennsylvania’s most pressing issues, Republican leaders in the General Assembly have chosen to place their political party above the interests of Pennsylvanians. Last year, it was the sham voter ID law. This year, we have a brand-new effort to rig presidential elections. Senate Bill 538, sponsored by a gang of 13 Republican state senators, would distribute 18 of Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes proportionally based on how presidential candidates performed statewide. The remaining two electoral votes would be …
The Frustrated Pragmatist
10:43 am on Friday, March 8, 2013
Keep the dream alive Ooty Cat. In the mean time, I will continue to support the Electoral College System and the voice it gives individual States. I will continue to believe I live in the United States of America. A place where our only national elected office is a President who is supposedly equal in power to the Congress of the States. more ›