Your State Representative - 12

Legislative District

A LEADER FOR PENNSYLVANIA

Headlines:

✔

Metcalfe Battles to Protect Taxpayers

[READ STORY ON PAGE 2]

✔

Grassroots Momentum Builds for Teacher STRIKE-FREE Pennsylvania

[READ STORY ON PAGE 2]

✔

Metcalfe Arizona-Modeled Legislation Oﬀers IllegalAliens Two Options: Leave Pennsylvania or Go to Jail

[READ STORY ON PAGE 3]

✔

Metcalfe Celebrates Multiple Defeats of PA’sGun-Grabbing Governor During Annual Right to Keepand Bear Arms Rally

[READ STORY ON PAGE 4]

Visit RepMetcalfe.com

Winter 2008

Summer 2010

Metcalfe Continues Uncompromising Fight toProtect Life, Liberty and Property

Metcalfe Stands With Veterans

Representative Metcalfepresents veteran RonHarbison with anofﬁcial House citationin recognition of beinghonored with the 2009Butler County Veteranof the Year. -- January15, 2010

Representative Metcalfe, U.S. Army Veteran, participated in a state Capitolceremony honoring Pennsylvania World War II veterans of the

Tuskegee Airmen

- America’s ﬁrst African American air combat unit.

Dear Friends,

Economic turmoil in our state, nationand around the world has not discouragedleftist forces who seek to control more of our lives through continuing their pursuits of our wallets. A local Cranberry Twp official,responding to people in the communitywho disagree with tax and spenders,actually wrote in a recent publication that,“if something works out, if we see results, if things happen the way they are suppose to,then we become believers.”This thought captures the excuse thatmany liberals in government may use to justify their intrusion into our lives. In placeof asking if it works, the question should be- “Is this in line with the limited constitutionalrole that our government is supposed tohave in our lives?”We still have a republican form of limitedgovernment defined by our Constitution asthe law of the land, if we, the people chooseto protect and reclaim it. Our nation’sfounders invested, risked and lost their liveslaying the foundation of our government,which included a system of checks andbalances to protect the liberty of theirgeneration and those to come.As all levels of government considerand form policies, they have a constitutionalresponsibility to focus on implementingand adopting only those initiatives that arebased firmly on the constitutional principlesof protecting the life, liberty and propertyof each individual citizen. By design, theAmerican form of government limits alllevels of government’s reach into the life of the citizen who they are supposed to serve. Just because a level of government can dosomething, and they have the majority of votes to do it, does not mean they haveconstitutional permission to do it. I willcontinue the fight in Harrisburg to protectour liberty and our wallets.For Liberty,Daryl MetcalfeState Representative

Metcalfe Battles to Protect Taxpayers

Advancing his steadfast efforts to

Put Taxpayers First,

Representative Metcalfe and a united no tax increase coalitionheld the

2010 Pennsylvania State Capitol Taxpayers’Protest

on June 8.Noting a victory for taxpayers, Metcalfe said, “This year,your efforts have already forced Pennsylvania’s outgoingSpend-A-Holic governor to publicly throw in his towel overhis growth-killing proposal to impose the

state sales tax on74 tax-free everyday household items, business andconsumer services.”

Continuing his

ﬁght to protect taxpayers

, Metcalfevoted

on the

2010-11 $28.04 billion budget

, when nextyear’s revenue is projected to be approximately

$25 billion

.This year’s budget spends $200 million more than last year, andwhen passed was dependent on $850 million in unapprovedfederal funding. The budget deal also included up to anadditional $600 million that the state may borrow. If the state borrows anadditional $600 million, it will ultimately cost the taxpayers, with interest,approximately $936 million. Also included in the budget deal, by the Senateand House leadership with the governor, was an agreement to create a

severance tax

natural gas extraction

October 2010

. Thegovernor signed the budget July 6, making this the 8th consecutive year thatthe budget was not passed by the

June 30

deadline.“This 2010-11 state budget which spends

$28.04 billion

$3billion

more than expected revenue is yet another act that jeopardizes theeconomic security of every Pennsylvania taxpayer by setting the scene for anenormous tax increase battle next year. Moreover, due to federal funds thatthis budget depends on, it is not in line with our constitutional charge to pass a balanced budget,” said Metcalfe.

Eighty-two of the 98 Republican rank-and-ﬁle members

of the

House

voted against the Appropriations bill.Unfortunately, all seven of their leaders, who are elected by the majority and who are supposed to represent the values andprinciples of those members, voted for it. The only secret votes cast by legislators in Harrisburg are for their leadership.“The only way to end the corruption in our government is to shine light on back room deals and create more accountabilityto the people. This most recent example of elected Republican legislative leaders violating the basic Republican principle of ﬁscalresponsibility highlights the need to end secret legislative leadership elections,” said Metcalfe.Representative Metcalfe has been leading the ﬁght to

end secret leadership elections,

which would then allow citizens tohold their legislators accountable for electing leaders who will represent their values.“Contrary to the deceptive smoke-and-mirror attempts by the governor and his accomplices, there were many options tocreate a balanced 2010-11 state budget, without increasing taxes, including

cracking down on welfare fraud and eliminatingall discretionary spending,

also known as

WAMS.

“The way to grow our economy is not on the backs of taxpayers, but through reducing every taxpayer’s burden. “Reducing theoverhead cost of government will increase the amount of money in the pockets of individuals which, through their own choices inthe marketplace, will create jobs,” said Metcalfe.

“First of all, is Darylnot the real deal? As aconservative, I’ll go for cloning if we can start with him!”

- R.J. Harris, Host, WHP580 AM

rassroots Momentum Builds for Teacher STRIKE-FREE Pennsylvania

Several school districts within the Commonwealth have passed resolutions demanding the Pennsylvania GeneralAssembly enact the

STRIKE-FREE Education Pact (House Bills 2092 and 1369).

For example, the unanimously adopted

Pennsbury SchoolDistrict

resolution states:“…by majority vote of its Board of School Directors, demandsthat the Pennsylvania General Assembly enact the Strike-Freeducation Pact: House Bill 1369 from Chief Sponsor, Rep. Todd Rock,to make teacher strikes and retroactive contract payments illegal,while retaining ﬁscal authority over labor costs with the people’sduly elected school ofﬁcials; and also House Bill 2092 from Chief Sponsor, Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, to render school strikes and lockoutsunconstitutional.”Through

Representative Metcalfe’s

recent appointment s

Republican Chairman

of the

Pennsylvania HouseIntergovernmental Affairs Committee

, and because of thecommittee’s oversight regarding the interaction of all levels of government, he continues to ﬁght for passage of the

Strike-FREEEducation Amendment (House Bill 2092)

to constitutionally ban teacher strikes andother public school lockouts in Pennsylvania.

Representative Metcalfe congratulates Webelos Pack 457 onearning their citizenship badges.

Continued on page 4...

Legislation Could Save PA Taxpayers$1.4 Billion Annually

Citing mounting taxpayer costs, the almost

$1.2 billionRendell budget deﬁcit

lost jobs

and

ever-increasing crime

resulting from

Pennsylvania’s illegal alien invasion

, RepublicanIntergovernmental Affairs Committee Chairman RepresentativeMetcalfe introduced the newest and toughest addition (

House Bill2479

) to the

National Security Begins at Home

legislativepackage in early May.“The purpose of this legislation is to offer every illegal alienresiding in Pennsylvania two options: leave immediately or go to jail,” said Metcalfe. “Whether you came to steal Pennsylvania jobsor to leech off of our state’s fraud-ridden, ‘close your eyes andauthorize’ welfare system, once this law is enacted there will beabsolutely no economic incentives for you to remain here.”

Modeled after the recently enacted Arizona law

HouseBill 2479

would provide

state

and

local law enforcement

with full authority to apprehend Pennsylvania’s estimated

140,000illegal alien invaders

for

deportation

. Metcalfe’s legislationalso incorporates several other previously introduced

NationalSecurity Begins at Home

provisions, including

punishingemployers

who knowingly hire illegal aliens; cracking down on“

Sanctuary

” cities; and ending access to

welfare

education

andall other

public beneﬁts

economic attractions

for illegalaliens.“Giving state and local law enforcement full authorityto apprehend illegal alien invaders for deportation haseverything to do with fully restoring the rule of law in favor of taxpaying Pennsylvania citizens who are currently footing the billfor no less than

$1.4 billion annually

clothe

feed

educate

medicate

and

incarcerate illegal aliens

,” said Metcalfe. “Mostimportantly, this legislation recognizes that Pennsylvania citizenshave a constitutional right to expect their rights and laws to beenforced, especially against foreign invaders.”According to a recent

KQV Radio/Pittsburgh-TribuneReview poll

an overwhelming

93 percent

(

1,466

out of

1,571

respondents) support

House Bill 2479

becoming law.

Illegal Immigration Reform petition

RepMetcalfe.com

today.

Metcalfe Arizona-Modeled Legislation Offers IllegalAliens Two Options: Leave Pennsylvania or Go to Jail

StateLegislatorsforLegalImmigration.com founder,Representative Metcalfe, addresses hundreds of American citizens who journeyed to Arizona to attend the

Phoenix Rising

rally in support of giving law enforcement full authority to apprehend illegal aliensfor deportation in all 50 states.

The Metcalfe Proposal:The Time Has Come

[Pittsburgh-Tribune Review, May 7, 2010]

Representative Metcalfe’s Arizona-modeledIllegal Alien Apprehension measure continuesto generate unprecedented media coverageincluding the Fox News Channel (On The Recordwith Greta Van Susteren, Fox & Friends andYour World with Neil Cavuto); CBS EveningNews Weekend Edition; the Washington Times;and this Pittsburgh-Tribune Review editorialexcerpted below:

“State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Cranberry,deserves praise for introducing areasonable, practical bill -- modeledon Arizona’s new anti-illegal-aliensmeasure -- that deserves to becomelaw.”“Arizona’s law has immense publicsupport. Hopefully, so will Metcalfe’sbill, helping to convince Harrisburgto do what’s right for Americans inPennsylvania.”

Metcalfe-Shepherded E-Verify JobProtection Bills Pass House withSupermajority

Seconded in their introduction by Representative Metcalfe, twopieces of legislation (

House Bills 1502 & 1503

)--stipulating that anycontractor or subcontractor who fails to verify the Social Securitynumbers of both current and new employees could be barred from stateprojects, or in the case of private construction, face forfeiture of theirstate licenses and certiﬁcations--advanced to the state Senate, on Tuesday, June 9, with strong bipartisan support.“Requiring contractors and subcontractors to conﬁrm the legalworking status of their employees through the

FREE federal E-Verifyprogram

is one small step forward to shutting off the economic faucetsthat draw illegal alien invaders to Pennsylvania in the ﬁrst place,” saidMetcalfe. “However, especially when compared to Arizona, Pennsylvaniais still miles away when it comes to implementing a total solution toprotect our lives, jobs, liberty and property against the illegal alieninvasion.”

Recognized Leadership

“Representative Metcalfe is a national leader workingtogether with state legislators across the nation todeliver real progress on an issue that is no doubt onthe minds of nearly every American citizen.”