Time to dump DeWeese
Your recent editorial, “Press for Reforms: Better Government is a Phone Call Away,” was outstanding. You properly identified Pennsylvania as one of the weakest states on record for our token legislative reform gestures in Harrisburg. Compared to the other 49 states, we sit in the bottom of the barrel when it comes to lobbyist reform, open voting records and accountability for public spending.
Our great state played a vital role in the founding of this nation. We can count more revolutionary war heroes on our rolls than any other state. How is it possible that 200 years later our fundamental right to know what our elected officials are doing has so completely eroded away?
Most of our legislators, especially those who have been sitting in Harrisburg for decades, have completely lost touch with us, their electorate.
The biggest offender is state Rep. Bill DeWeese. If you want to know what he has been up to in the General Assembly, you have to be willing to go to Harrisburg and sit on the capitol steps for about a week in order to dig up his voting record.
If you want to know how DeWeese is spending your tax dollars, forget it. You cannot get to those records. We, the taxpayers, apparently do not have the need, or the right, to know how he throws our money around.
For the first time in a very long time, we have the opportunity to start moving Pennsylvania in a new direction.
There are several poor performing incumbents, like DeWeese, who are up for re-election in November and they have worthy opponents who deserve our consideration.
To set the stage for true reform in Pennsylvania we must first weed out DeWeese and his cronies. Let’s give Pennsylvania back to the people of Pennsylvania.
Voting for Greg Hopkins instead of Bill DeWeese in November is a critical first stop in this process.
Barbara Gandy
Graysville