Diamond after a PA Constitutional Convention - still...
Diamond said during the campaign he will continue to hammer home the Republican message of smaller government and reduced spending while advocating for a citizens’ constitutional convention. He also pledged not to accept any legislative perks including a pension, health plan or mid-term pay increases...
http://www.ldnews.com/news/ci_8250335
Beware, beware, beware, beware. See our previous posts on this issue listed in the sidebar under Posts About Limited vs Unlimited PA Con-Con. He ran an unsuccessful bid for Governor of the state as an independent, ignoring his own advice to challenge the incumbent in the Primary, if the incumbent faced no opposition there. He gave some excuse somebody else had planned to run as a Democrat, then bowed out.
Instead of facing the incumbent head-on in the Democrat Primary, he travelled around the state between the time before the Primary, and after the Primary back then, until sometime in March, when he announced his run for that office.
Along the way, he continued to present the idea of a so-called "citizens" Constitutional Convention as one that could be limited.
All the while, he neglected to tell people of information showing such a convention could follow the precedent of a previous PA Convention which was a runaway convention.
See our lengthy response to Diamond Wednesday, June 13, 2007 Response pacleansweep: A reflection upon a Pa. convention which cites Mr. Robert Williams testimony before Senator Piccola's State Government Committee on Calling a PA Constitutional Convention. Williams testimony included a supplementary report, inclusive of footnotes.
http://netthetruthonline.blogspot.com/2007/06/response-pacleansweep-reflection-upon.html
Read the pertinent footnote to determine that Williams allows for the potential of a limited convention having the ability to produce a "new" document, a new PA Constitution.
Maybe it all depends what some say the meaning of "new" is.
Last time we checked, when you leave out info pertinent to decision-making, you are nothing short of like the big wolf in Little Red Riding Hood.
If a person can withhold information in an attempt to convince people to support a PA Constitutional Convention, (it can be limited and remain so, it really really can, trust me) what else will the person withhold to mount a campaign for a political office in Pennsylvania.
Indications from the Lebanon Daily News article are he's already skewing the record of Republican opponent Gingrich.
Activist to take shot at 101st
By JOHN LATIMER
Staff Writer
Lebanon Daily News
The seat is currently occupied by Rep. Mauree Gingrich of Palmyra, who is running for a fourth two-year...
When it comes to reforming how things are done in Harrisburg, Diamond said he is the real deal, while Gingrich just talks the talk.
“I saw in her release (announcing her candidacy) that she said she is an advocate of reform,” he said. “Well, it is easy to say she is an advocate. But I think to be an advocate you have to come up with some ideas of your own. I haven’t seen her leading the pack or shepherding these new reform-minded representatives into an organized, major reform coalition.”
Gingrich dismissed Diamond’s claim this morning, adding that she was not part of the pay grab that led to the reform movement and raised Diamond’s political stature. She noted her past involvement in the Jefferson Reform Initiative — a bipartisan legislative reform group — and her current work on a welfare-reform task force as just two examples of her commitment to improving government. “I’ve always been involved in reform issues,” she said. “That’s part of my life and part of bringing efficiencies to government. .... I’m surprised anyone would make a statement like that. It’s categorically untrue. You only have to look at my voting record to know that. It’s that simple.”
http://www.ldnews.com/news/ci_8250335
(Net the Truth Online)
Activist to take shot at 101st
By JOHN LATIMER
Staff Writer
Lebanon Daily News
The leader of an anti-incumbency reform group that helped oust dozens of state legislators in the wake of the 2005 legislative pay grab is now hoping to become an incumbent himself.
Russ Diamond of Annville, founder of PACleanSweep, announced yesterday that he is running for the Republican nomination to represent the 101st District in the state House. The district represents Leb-anon; the boroughs of Cleona, Mt. Gretna and Palmyra; and the townships of Annville, North Annville, South Annville, North Cornwall, North Londonderry and South Londonderry...
Diamond said during the campaign he will continue to hammer home the Republican message of smaller government and reduced spending while advocating for a citizens’ constitutional convention. He also pledged not to accept any legislative perks including a pension, health plan or mid-term pay increases...
http://www.ldnews.com/news/ci_8250335
Who Says There's No ...
... second, third, no, wait ... fourth? ... acts in American life?
Professional gadfly Russ Diamond writes this morning to let us know he's filed the paperwork for a Republican primary run for state House in Lebanon County's 101st District. The incumbent in that district is state Rep. Mauree Gingrich.
If he's elected, Diamond swears he won't accept a pay raise, pension, perks, office, pens, papers, books or anything else funded by the taxpayers...
http://blogs.mcall.com/capitol_ideas/2008/02/snow-day-wednes.html
See the testimony of Robert Williams before the State Government Committee (Senator Piccola) Contact Senator Piccola for the testimony.
Weekly Column: Calling a Constitutional Convention in Pennsylvania
3/2/2007
http://www.piccola.org/newsreleases/default.asp?NewsReleaseID=1493&SubjectID=
Also see
New Jersey Constitutional Reform
The Law of Limited State Constitutional Conventions
Robert Williams
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:G8nhpg74kQkJ:camlaw.rutgers.edu/statecon/njtaxconvpapers/report7.doc+robert+williams+limited+pennsylvania+constitutional+convention&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
See
Pennsylvania Constitution
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/VC/visitor_info/creating/constitution.htm
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