It’s time to get Mobilized!

Where and When – The Harrisburg Hilton, Saturday from 11am-4pm

Cost is 25.00 10.00 for students (includes lunch)

Click here to register.

Topics Include

• Winning the Precinct Wars
• Building the Online Movement
• Mastering the Issues for 2010
• Impacting Your Media market

Speakers include

• Rep Sam Rohrer
• Rep Jim Christians
• Ethan Demme (yours truly)
• Rep Gordon Denlinger
• Sen John Eichelberger
• R.J. Harris
• Austin James
• Dan Rundle
• Peg Luksik
• Drew Ryun
• Ned Ryun
• Ryan Shafik
• Gary Sutton
• Pat Toomey
• Randy Wenger
• Joe the Plumber

and more…

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It’s going to be a fun Saturday in Harrisburg as grassroots activists from around the state gather to learn how to get involved and make a difference in Pennsylvania politics. Oh and I’ll be there presenting some blogging best practices. If you can’t make it they will be live streaming the event and I’ll have a feed here on the front page.

Info from the Rohrer campaign website:

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Are you ready for the fight? Join Representative Sam Rohrer and over twenty leading organizers and policy experts for a one-day only, training and networking event. Reserve your seat now for the “SamRohrer.org Mobilize for Liberty in 2010 – Grassroots Action Conference” in Harrisburg.

Our goal is to provide the best professional tools for Pennsylvania’s free-market, pro-family activist community in advance of the 2010 Primary.

We’re keeping most of the names off the marquee until the day of the event, but here are just a few:

Represenative Sam Rohrer
Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher – “Joe the Plumber”
Ned Ryun – American Majority
Drew Ryun – American Majority
R.J. Harris – Talk Show Host, WHP 580
Gary Sutton – Talk Show Host, WSBA 910

LOCATION DATE & TIMES

Saturday, February 13, 11:30-4PM
Harrisburg Hilton
1 North 2nd Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101

PRICE:

$25 Per Person
$10 Per Student

Space is limited. Please book your seat TODAY if at all possible, because we don’t want you to miss out on this important campaign event. Thanks for all you do for the cause of Liberty in Pennsylvania.

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You’ve seen it on the news, Rendell and Altmire at the press conference in Pittsburgh talking about the safe arrival of orphans from Haiti.

However the Post Gazette reports that there may be more to this story than meets the eye.

The early stages of efforts to rescue 54 Haitian orphans and bring them to Pittsburgh turned into a competition with political undertones, secret meetings and a possible foretaste of a coming congressional race.

Mary Beth Buchanan, the former U.S. attorney for Western Pennsylvania, opened a bid to extract the children and the sisters from Ben Avon who ran the BRESMA orphanage in Port-au-Prince. [...]

She said the organizer of the other rescue attempt, Leslie Merrill McCombs, a senior consultant for UPMC, phoned and grilled her for information, obtained a list of the children and ended up shipping medical supplies gathered as part of the Buchanan effort on the plane that carried Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and Mr. Altmire.

However the successful rescue was organized, it had the effect of short-circuiting Ms. Buchanan’s effort and shifting attention to Mr. Altmire, a former UPMC lobbyist.

Read the full post here. h/t grassrootsPA

2 Political Junkies asked the question of Bram Reichbaum who was helping Buchanan with her rescue effort,

Bram Reichbaum of The Pittsburgh Comet blog was assisting Mary Beth Buchanan last night. I asked him (via email) if the two factions were working at cross purposes or if it’s just a matter of everyone attacking the problem from different angles with their own resources (which could maximize the chances of pulling off a rescue). Bram answered as follows:

It was DEFINITELY different channels and not cross-purposes. We definitely got the impression that some Dems weren’t thrilled with our attempts, but I never once got the impression either effort was screwing up the other one. If anyone succeeds in getting some aid thru it’ll all be worth it.

For the record though we didn’t know about what Jason Altmire was doing any more than he knew about our effort. Cong. Tim Murphy was our man on the inside, called us every hour or so.

Altmire’s YouTube videos

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The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote on Saturday,

Philadelphia police officers will be permitted to carry larger-caliber handguns next year, part of a wide-ranging effort that Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey is making to upgrade the department’s weaponry to match adversaries carrying bigger guns.

Ramsey announced yesterday that officers will have the option to replace their 9mm pistols with more powerful .40- and .45-caliber semiautomatic handguns. The sidearms are produced by Austrian gunmaker Glock.

h/t grassroots PA

It’s about time, I think it’s a shame that as a citizen I can carry my .40 cal Glock but officers in Philly can’t.

Of course us law abiding civilians are forbidden from carrying our legal guns. Yet for some strange reason guns keep being used in crimes in Philly?

hmmm I guess the criminals didn’t get the memo.

Unfortunately police officers still have to purchase a higher caliber handgun with their own money.

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