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Your State Representative - 12
th
Legislative District
A LEADER FOR PENNSYLVANIA
Notable Quotable:
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As a prime sponsor of the Pennsylvania Open WorkforceInitiative, Representative Metcalfe deserves the gratitude,support and respect of every working Pennsylvania citizenfor having the courage to act on what is a fundamentalfreedom issue: ending the taxpayer-funded collection of forced union dues.
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--
Keith Charles, Executive Director,Pennsylvanians for Right to Work, Inc.
Headlines:
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Metcalfe-Driven Taxpayers’ ProtestSpells Defeat For Nearly $2 Billion inRendell Tax Increases
[READ STORY ON PAGE 2]
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Metcalfe Appointed HouseRepublican Intergovernmental AffairsCommittee Chairman
[READ STORY ON PAGE 3]
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Metcalfe Stands With SuperMajority o f Veterans In Defense of Constitution
[READ STORY ON PAGE 3]
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Metcalfe Continues the Fight For MoreLiberty and Less Government
[READ STORY ON PAGE 4]
Visit RepMetcalfe.com
Winter 2008
Dear Friends,
Government bailouts, socialized governmenthealth care and treating foreign terrorist combatantsas if they are civilian criminals are just a few of theobvious examples of an all out frontal assault by theleft on our U.S. Constitution and the liberties that itaffirms that define our American way of life.As a former U.S. soldier and as a legislator, Ihave taken an oath to defend our Constitution. InOctober, the national group
VoteVets.org
, a leftist frontgroup for socialist George Soros’s
MoveOn.org,
boughtattack radio ads against me in an attempt to silencemy defense of the Constitution.
VoteVets.org
supports a far-left group of state andnational politicians, including U.S. Congressman JohnMurtha, who callously accused our Marines of killing“innocent civilians in cold blood.” I stand with themajority of my fellow veterans in support of ourmilitary and in defense of the Constitution that weswore to protect against all enemies, both foreignand domestic.The attack by
VoteVets.org
was launched after Iexposed their shadow organization Operation Free,whose members are claiming to have veteran creden-tials in an effort to advance a radical leftist agendathat has absolutely nothing to do with freedom,America’s national security, energy independence orprotecting our environment, but is a direct attack onour Constitution.If a veteran, who has sworn to protect theConstitution, advocates that our government signtreaties, such as the Copenhagen treaty or enactcap and tax type energy policies through statutoryor regulatory changes that violate our Constitution,then he or she has betrayed their oath.The left, who wants to control more of ourlives, typically labels initiatives in an effort to mislead,such as calling a group “Operation Free,” when whatthey are really advocating for is less freedom. In themarket place their tactics would be considered falseadvertising.Many in elected office will not vote againstpolicies or speak out against organizations that havea favorable sounding label because they fear it will beused against them in the future. The old phrase, “allthat is needed for evil to prevail is for good men todo nothing” comes to mind.I will continue my work with integrity to protectour constitutions, our liberties and the best interestsof the individual taxpayer. Serving the 12th District, Daryl Metcalfe
Winter 2009
Metcalfe Continues Never-Ending Battle to DefendConstitutional Liberties and Put PA Taxpayers First!
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Metcalfe Stands Up for Pennsylvania Taxpayers
Starting in the first week of the current legislative session, Representative Metcalfe spearheaded the charge in the PennsylvaniaHouse to deliver a fiscally responsible 2009-10 state budget, that puts
Pennsylvania Taxpayers First!
Inevitably, at the end of the unprecedented 101-day budget stalemate, he had no other option but to cast a
NO vote against
the
$27.8 billion budget
due to more than
$1.5 billion
in
new taxes
and
increased spending.
“The 2009-10 state budget, which spends nearly
$28 billion
or
$3 billion
more than anticipated revenue, is another act of
legalized thievery
that
raids
the
pockets
and
bank accounts
of every
Pennsylvania taxpayer
to
pay
for someone else’s
health care
,
bus fare
and
excessive public welfare
,” said Representative Metcalfe. “When over-taxed employers either go outof business or logically ride off into the sunset for a more tax-friendly economic climate, out-of-work Pennsylvania taxpayers needlook no further than the
governor
, the
House Blue Dog Democrats
who turned out to be nothing but
lap dogs
for HouseDemocrat leadership, and all but five
Senate Republicans
, who promised all along to vote in a fiscally responsible manner, but inthe end, furthered their legacy as the
Caved-In Caucus
by supporting
taxes
,
taxes
, and
more taxes
.”
2009 Pennsylvania State Capitol Taxpayers’ Protest Timeline
Representative Metcalfe utilized his candidacy for House Speaker to provide all 203 members with a fiscally responsible alternative to the tax-and-spend liberal nominated by the HouseDemocrat majority.
January 6January 27
Preempting the governor’s annual budgetaddress, Representative Metcalfe joined with nearly a dozen fiscally conservativeHouse Republicans to roll out several government-limiting solutions designed to put Pennsylvania Taxpayers First!
March 2
Metcalfe, Lawmakers andTaxpayer Watchdogs LaunchStatewide No Tax IncreasePetition Drive
June 9 & June 23
Taxpayers from across theCommonwealth answered Representative Metcalfe’s call to makehistory by personally demanding thattheir respective state lawmakers voteagainst any and all tax or fee increasesduring the first-ever Pennsylvania StateCapitol Taxpayers’ Protest. On June23, this event was followed-up withthe statewide legislative office Post-ItCampaign.
September 29
StateCapitolProtest.com
Names 10 Most Wanted PA Lawmakers
Just like the repeal of the
July 2005 state government pay raise
, this
impressive timeline
of
taxpayer protection victories
would not have been possible without your continued input andgrassroots support.
Metcalfe-DrivenTaxpayers’ ProtestSpells Defeat forNearly $2 Billion inRendell Tax Increases
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NO!, $1.5 Billion PersonalIncome Tax Increase.
(Estimates indicate that the governor’s
16 percent PIT increase
wouldhave cost Pennsylvania more than
24,000 private sector jobs
).
✔
NO!,Marcellus Shale NaturalGas Drilling Severance Tax
(Natural gas industry experts predictthis Rendell tax proposal would costthe Commonwealth approximately
53,000 new jobs
during thenext five years.)
✔
NO!,
20 percent tax increase
on
small games
of
chancebenefiting local volunteer fire departments
,
veteransgroups
and other
community
and
non-profit organizations
.
✔
NO!,expanded state salestax
on
admission
to
artexhibitions, concerts
,
museums
,
theaters
,
etc
.
October 10
For the latestlegislative updates visitRepMetcalfe.com.
Putting additional pressure on House Blue Dog Democrats and Caving-In SenateRepublicans to vote only for a balanced 2009-10 state budget with no tax or fee increases, Representative Metcalfe partnered with the volunteer Web siteStateCapitolProtest.com to produce and disseminate a downloadable poster of “Pennsylvania’s 10 Most Wanted Lawmakers.”
Metcalfe Appointed House RepublicanIntergovernmental Affairs Committee Chairman
Representative Metcalfe has been named Republican chairman of the Pennsylvania House
Intergovernmental AffairsCommittee
.“After battling in the political arena for more than a decade, I have encountered far too many state lawmakers who donot care about the self-evident, individual liberties that are affirmed in our state and federal constitutions,” said RepresentativeMetcalfe. “Instead they view our constitutions as obstacles between them and their objective to obtain more control of our livesand confiscating more of our incomes. This chairmanship and the work of this committee presents a prime time opportunity touphold and defend the foundational documents of the American way of life and to affirm, protect and advance our God-given, notgovernment-given personal liberties.”Specifically, the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee considers legislation that is related to relationships among the variouslevels of local, state and federal government, including unfunded mandates, flag burning, interstate compacts, state sovereignty,and the repeal of outdated and unnecessary statutes. Currently, committee members have been focused on providing legislativeoversight regarding how individual state agencies are distributing federal stimulus funding.Recognized by the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
as the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s “
No. 1 Conservative
,” and a multiple-time, highest-ranking lawmaker on the
Pennsylvania Liberty Index
, Representative Metcalfe remains a leader on the issues of taxpayer protection, education reform, ending Pennsylvania’s illegal alien invasion, the preservation of Second Amendment freedoms,and outlawing teacher strikes and compulsory unionism. His other legislative initiatives include proposals to completely eliminateproperty taxes within the Commonwealth and requiring voter referendum for any and all future local tax increases.“Just as I have done since I was first elected to office in 1998, I will not hesitate to use this chairmanship to defend traditionalmarriage and our free market economy or to speak out against socialized medicine, taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliensor any other government expenditure that falls outside the crystal clear guidelines of our state and federal constitutions, ” saidRepresentative Metcalfe.
Metcalfe Stands With Super Majority of VeteransIn Defense of Constitution
Representative Daryl Metcalfe was recently the target of a misleading attack ad which ran on KDKA radio and several otherlocal stations urging listeners to contact his Harrisburg office and demand that he resign. “The national sponsors of this ad are attacking me because my comments have exposed that Operation Free’s radical leftistagenda has absolutely nothing to do with America’s national security, energy independence or protecting our environment,but is a direct attack on our Constitution,” said Representative Metcalfe, a U.S. Army veteran whose honorable service recordbetween 1980-84 includes defending the West German border during the height of the Cold War. Operation Free is a front group for a vast “non-profit” coalition that includes the Truman National Security Project, theNational Security Network and the sponsor of the ad campaign,
VoteVets.org
.
VoteVets.org
supports a far-left group of stateand national politicians, including U.S. Congressman John Murtha. All of these groups are affiliated and receive funding frombillionaire George Soros, and his even more controversial political organization
MoveOn.org
.“I stand by my original comments,” said Representative Metcalfe. “Any veteran lending their name to promote the leftistpropaganda of global warming and climate change, in an effort to control more of the wealth created in the U.S. economythrough cap-and-tax type policies, is a traitor to the oath he or she took to defend the Constitution of our great nation. If someone is advocating for our government to make statutory or regulatory changes in policy or enter into treaties that violateour Constitution, and they have taken an oath to uphold and protect that same document, then they are traitors to that oath.”Once again, a solid majority of Southwestern Pennsylvania residents agree with Representative Metcalfe’s constitutional-basedposition. According to the results of an Oct. 27, Tribune-Review/KQV Radio poll,
70 percent
of
874 respondents
stated thatRepresentative Metcalfe should not apologize to the members of Operation Free.“Operation Free and
VoteVets.org
stand with the likes of Congressman John Murtha, who accused our Marines of killing‘innocent civilians in cold blood.’ I stand with the vast super majority of my fellow veterans in defense of the U.S.Constitution,” concluded Representative Metcalfe.
As part of his ongoing district office business visitation program, Representative Metcalfe recently visited withLuigi and Wendy Mascio, owners of Medical EquipmentSource, LLC in Mars, Pa.District 12 residents receive a first-hand legislative updateat Representative Metcalfe’s latest Dessert with Darylforum. For a complete list of Spring 2010 events seeenclosed insert.
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