Pennsylvnia Federation of College Republicans

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College Republicans Stunned by Bryan Lentz

Missing Key Appropriations Hearings

Lentz placing priority on campaigning over governing

Philadelphia-2/25/10- The Pennsylvania Federation of College Republicans in the state today criticized State Rep. Bryan Lentz, a candidate for Congress in the 7^th District of Pennsylvania, for failing to attend a critical Appropriations Committee hearing this week on state funding for state-related universities. The criticism follows reports that Lentz missed three additional key hearings on Wednesday while in Washington, DC engaging in campaign activities.

Lentz missed three separate hearing of the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, including hearings on the budgets of the Department of Aging, Department of Public Welfare, and the Department of Insurance. He was reportedly in Washington, DC campaigning. Lentz was also absent from a House Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday where the leaders of the state-related universities – Penn State, Temple University, Lincoln University, and University of Pittsburgh – testified about the need to raise tuition on college students unless the legislature increased funding over and above the Rendell Administration’s flat budget requests. This would impact over 160,000 college students across the commonwealth.

“Representative Lentz says he is running for congress so that he can ‘make a real difference in our communities our Commonwealth and our country.’ However, his failure to show up at this hearing shows that he is simply paying lip service to the people of Pennsylvania, notably to the issues facing younger Pennsylvanians,” said Barry Scatton, President of the Temple University College Republicans. “This is reprehensible because without this state funding many young people in Pennsylvania won’t be able to afford a higher education.  Perhaps he should focus on the job he currently has as a public servant instead of campaigning for another position he will probably treat with the same disdain.”

Just two months removed from finally passing much needed funding for the schools within the Commonwealth’s System of Higher Education, problems again are mounting that threaten many current and future students ability to receive higher education. At Tuesday’s hearing, Appropriations Chairman Dwight Evans (D-Phi) hinted that in the near future all funding will likely be eliminated, leading to sizable tuition increases. “With the state funding for 2009-10 having just been completed two short months ago, the future of our states higher educational foundation is in jeopardy,” said Ed Furman, State Chairman of the Pennsylvania Federation of College Republicans.  “Representative Lentz is nowhere to be found on these issues, missing critical meetings where a Democratic colleague of his cast into doubt future state funding for Pennsylvania’s network of Colleges and Universities.  Representative Lentz needs to do his job in Harrisburg and stand up for the tens of thousands of students across the commonwealth whose future education is in danger.”

The potentially crippling tuition increases will only hurt the state in the future. “Bryan Lentz has done a great disservice to students who attend, or plan to attend, state-funded schools. Many of the country’s greatest minds are the products of state-funded schools,” said Rachel Feinstein, President of the University of Pittsburgh College Republicans. “Clearly, Representative Lentz feels that providing funds for esteemed institutions such as Pittsburgh, Penn State, Temple, and Lincoln network of institutions is not imperative for the development of our state and country.”

At a time with high unemployment across not only the commonwealth but the entire country, these ideas and lack of leadership are sadly far too common. “At a time when Pennsylvania’s high tax rate is costing the state jobs, many young Pennsylvanians are being forced to leave the state in which they earned their education, putting a tremendous burden on the rest of the state to make up for the loss of hard and extremely well educated workers,” added Furman.

The Pennsylvania College Republicans would like Bryan Lentz to tell the many current and future students who are from the 7^th Congressional District, what campaign events in Washington were worth missing important meetings that affect so many young Pennsylvanians.

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The Pennsylvania Federation of College Republicans is the largest grassroots organization in Pennsylvania, consisting of over 13,000 members at over 80 chapters at Colleges and Universities across the state whose presence is consistently felt in numerous campaigns throughout Pennsylvania.

Contact:

Ed Furman

pacollegerepublicans@gmail.com

610-585-4336

pacolelgerepublicans.com

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Liberal Democrats and their communications staff in the national media have been telling us since November that conservatism has failed, the Republican Party has fallen, that the best thing we can do is move leftward and gracefully accept life as a permanent minority.
The Rasmussen polling service finds today, however, that a generic Republican congressional candidate would beat a generic Democratic candidate for the first time in the nearly two years that Rasmussen has been tracking this trend.
Today 40% of voters say they will vote for their Republican candidate in the next congressional election versus 39% who will vote for their Democratic candidate.
Only a week ago, 42% said they would support the Democratic candidate, while 28% said they would support the Republican. The last poll taken before November’s disastrous election showed the generic Democrat with a 3-point lead, 43% to 40%.
The generic Republican candidate leads most strongly among independent voters (34-28%), investors (44-35%) entrepreneurs (44-40%).  Meanwhile, fully 12% of Democrats and only 8% of Republican say they would consider voting for the other party’s candidate.
You can see the full results here.

From an enewsletter post at Susquehanna University:

“As students wake up and faculty return to campus on 9/11, they will notice 2,977 flags placed in grass near the fountain outside of Deg. Each flag commemorates a life lost seven years ago. The flags will remain in the grass for a few days to allow the campus community to take time to reflect on the events of the tragic day. The SU College Republicans acquired the flags, however a number of SU students helped the club members place them in the ground. Thank you to everyone who helped! ”

Please take a moment of silence to remember those whose lives were lost on this tragic day. No matter what political affliliation, this is a day to remember our friends and loved ones.

Anyone that knows me knows that I am as anti-feminist as it is possible to get.  I hate the idea of breaking up the family unit all in the name of “women empowerment” and abortion on demand.  I hate the “chickification”, as Rush Limbaugh terms it, of the male population because the feminazis take offense at men acting like men.

Recently, however, I have felt like a feminist.  I am almost ashamed to admit it.  Almost…The reason why I can admit that freely and hold my head high is two words:  Sarah Palin. 

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Obama selected Biden for VP.  Does Barry remember that Joe said he wasn’t ready?

“The Presidency is not something that lends itself to on the job training.”

Mr. Biden, you are a political opportunist.  Why would you say yes to being the running mate of someone who you don’t think can cut it?

Mike Ubbens and myself were able to go to a John McCain event about a month ago in Wilkes Barre/Scranton. Our crew of College Republicans were interviewed by local papers, NPR (did anyone hear me on NPR??), and The Wall Street Journal. Pretty exciting! I finally got the pictures on to the computer. It’s a good thing I am NOT going to school for photography. The only video I got was McCain blowing his nose so thats obviously not going up. Anyway here are the pictures for your viewing pleasure

I found these 2 pics:

My advice: Get out there! Get to events! If you feel comfortable do some interviews but always be polite, educated on the topic and well spoken Check out this picture. CR’s totally took over the stage!

As the world turns its head towards Beijing, Russia has seized the opportunity of an occupied limelight and invaded Georgia. I cannot say I’m surprised. Just the hour or so of research I’ve done on the Ossetia-Georgia conflict shows that something was eventually to happen. With no ceasefire in sight and the quick advance of Russian troops beyond South Ossetia, things may escalate further.

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Last week I received this e-mail and I knew right away that I had to post it. This e-mail is from an American Soldier that is not overly involved in politics, but this was his big step into it. Obama is a liar and personally, I don’t want a president that is a liar. If I ever met Sen. Obama, my serious question to him would be, “Who wouldn’t want to spend time with our troops?” They fight for OUR freedoms! So…here’s the e-mail:

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The PA Federation of College Republicans announced today their official endorsement of Thought! Creative, the company behind the recently-debuted PACR website (www.pacollegerepublicans.com), as well as a personal endorsement of the site’s creator, Vincent Arezzi.

State Chairman Anthony Pugliese stated, ”We were very pleased with the website developed by Thought! Creative. The quality of work and attention to detail exceeded our expectations”.

Through our partnership with Thought! Creative, the PA CRs have negotiated a special offer for any state organization looking to enhance their presence on the web.  Any State CR Federation looking for functionality similar to the PA Website but with their own unique design can have it for under $2,000. This package would include a Home page, Board Member Bios page, Events List page (with google calendar integration), a contact page, donate page, sign-up page, youtube, flickr, google analytics and wordpress integration.

State Co-Chairman Mike Ubbens commented, “Our previous website had very little traffic and was difficult to update. Now we can easily update the events in Google calendar and add blog posts as we desire.  Our traffic has improved greatly and our blogging community is growing.“

For more details on this package please contact Thought! Creative at info@thoughtcreative.com and ask for the “State CR package”.

“Shifting from his previous opposition to expanded offshore drilling, the Illinois senator told a Florida newspaper he could get behind a compromise with Republicans and oil companies to prevent gridlock over energy.”

A little too late, Senator. He conveniently waited until the house Dems shut the lights off on the house Republicans to announce this CHANGE. This is politics as usual.

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