We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both! - Justice Louis Brandeis
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This action will be suspended for the rest of 2020 due to the health pandemic.
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Our goal - This project is intended to connect citizens to their local PA State House and State Senate legislators and other good government constituents in their districts.
We want a group of citizens in each PA State House and State Senate District who are informed and will advocate for good government/anti-corruption reforms in PA. Voices that can help create a 'representative democracy with economic, environmental and social justice for all in Pennsylvania.' To find out who is your PA State House and State Senate member, click Here and put in your address and zip to find out.
The PA State House and State Senate Good Government Petition Project:
* We will ask citizens to sign a petition to their PA State legislators three times a year during the months of February, June and October. The new February 2020 petition asks elected officials to:
1. Support an independent redistricting commission
to draw the legislative district lines and reform the PA State House
legislative rules to make them more democratic and fair like those
stated in PA House Resolutions 11 thru 20.
2. Support common
sense gift limitations to PA legislators like - HR 1291.
3. Support an early voting period of 10-15 day where eligible PA can vote early.
3. Support an early voting period of 10-15 day where eligible PA can vote early.
Ways you can get involved!
1. Email me and ask to be added to the list to get a copy of the petition early each
February, June and October. Indicate in which county you live. (tomulrich41@gmail.com)
1. Email me and ask to be added to the list to get a copy of the petition early each
February, June and October. Indicate in which county you live. (tomulrich41@gmail.com)
2. Print the petition and get signatures on your petition from your household and your neighbors who are constituents in your PA State House or State Senate District.
If you live in the Lehigh Valley (Lehigh and Northampton)
1. Bring the petition to the Friday Film and Forum Series at the UUCLV in Bethlehem at the end of the month in February, June or October or mail the petition to Tom Ulrich, 2035 Fernway Ave., Bethlehem, Pa. 18018 or email me for pickup ideas.
2. We will deliver the signed petitions to the PA State legislator's local office in
the Lehigh Valley at the end of each month mentioned following the Friday Film and Forum Series program. (email me if you can help deliver the petitions)
3. Check this interactive map of Pennsylvania and see which PA State House and State Senate Districts intersect within Lehigh and Northampton counties. Then help circulate a petition in February, June and October.
3. Check this interactive map of Pennsylvania and see which PA State House and State Senate Districts intersect within Lehigh and Northampton counties. Then help circulate a petition in February, June and October.
If you live in other parts of Pennsylvania
1. Take the petition signatures to your PA State House District office and explain what the petition is about.
3. Check your county on this interactive map to see which PA State House Districts intersect with your county. Then help circulate a petition in January, April, July and November.
More ways to help Good Government organizing in your PA State House and State Senate District:
1. Help develop and/or send a short monthly Good Government Update email to constituents in your PA State House or State Senate District.
2. Help develop that email list of constituents in your PA State House or State Senate District who would like to receive a monthly (or twice a month) Good Government Update.
2. Help develop that email list of constituents in your PA State House or State Senate District who would like to receive a monthly (or twice a month) Good Government Update.
Please contact tomulrich41@gmail.com for more details on how you can get involved.