Meehan resigns, will repay costs of employee settlement
U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-7)
U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-7) announced Friday that he would immediately resign from office and repay costs from a severance agreement to a former staffer of his who claimed that Meehan had attempted to initiate a romantic relationship with her, and then, when rebuffed, mistreated her.
Meehan — who was facing a House Ethics Committee investigation over the incident...
Vitali announces bid for 7th Congressional District
State Rep. Greg Vitali (D-166)
HAVERTOWN – Today, State Representative Greg Vitali (D-166) announced he is running for Congress in the 7th congressional district of Pennsylvania.
“Climate change is the single greatest long term threat to our world,” Vitali said. “I cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump and the current Congress endanger our future and make this problem worse. The time is...
EDITORIAL: Leach should withdraw, but not resign, yet
State Sen. Daylin Leach (D-17).
We live in a time of reckoning for men (and some women) who have refused to see the appropriate boundaries of personal and professional behavior — and now state Sen. (and would-be Congresman) Daylin Leach (D-17) has been implicated in a deeply reported, multi-sourced story in Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer.
The allegations — from 11 people — range from inappropriate...
The crossroads of hate and politics
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
In this very special edition of Politics As Unusual — a few days early to allow for copious time sitting by the pool and ingesting adult beverages — we’re going to take a look at how politics drives behavior (and the other way around), bad endorsements, chaos, dirty money and more!
First, if you’ve been on the Web, watched TV or been exposed to virtually...
A Q&A with Kate Young on Fair Districts PA and the fight against gerrymandering
By Nathaniel Smith, Columnist, The Times
Recently I spoke with Kate Young about Fair Districts PA https://www.fairdistrictspa.com/ and its campaign to do away with gerrymandering in Pennsylvania. Several Fair Districts presentations this spring have generated great interest. West Chester Public Library didn’t have materials on gerrymandering in its collection, so Fair Districts PA donated three...
If Trump wins GOP nod, what happens in Chester County?
Party insiders worry Trump could cost state legislative candidates
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
We’ve survived Super Tuesday (and Thursday night’s PG-13 GOP debate) and the road the Pennsylvania primary elections gives us less than seven weeks to figure out what the heck is going on and what it might mean for November’s elections.
And while both parties have issues with insurgencies,...
Naples declares for 7th Congressional seat
Dave Naples
Dave Naples, a resident of Collegeville in Montgomery County, announced his candidacy as a Democrat for Congress, positioning himself as “a true progressive voice for Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District.”
Naples cites the current district lines, drawn by the Republican state legislature after the 2010 census, as evidence of the failure of the conservative agenda. “This...
