Originally founded in July 2005 as a citizen response to the infamous middle-of-the-night Pennsylvania pay raise, PACleanSweep sought to recruit candidates in every legislative district in the Commonwealth. PACleanSweep was affiliated with 112 candidates in the 2006 election cycle, accounting for over 40 percent of the entire challenger field.

During that cycle, the Senate Pro Tempore, the Senate Majority Leader, and the House Minority Whip all lost to challengers. Fifty-two other legislative seats changed hands, representing a 24 percent turnover in the General assembly, a dozenfold increase over normal election cycles.

Along the way, PACleanSweep's leadership of statewide electoral pressure also led to two stunning events: The repeal of the pay raise, and the first-ever voter rejection of a Supreme Court Justice in Pennsylvania history. Both outcomes were deemed next-to-impossible by pundits and commentators of the day.

PACleanSweep operated as both a political committee under the election laws of Pennsylvania and as a non-profit corporation, with mixed results.

The corporate entity allowed for much consternation and infighting among its Board of Directors, which eventually led to a court-ordered dissolution of the corporation in August, 2006, with remianing assets put under control of the

founder. The PACleanSweep political committee kept fighting for state government reform until the end of 2008.

In commemoration of the five-year anniversary of the pay raise, PACleanSweep rises like a phoenix from the ashes with a renewed mission to return authority over the goverment of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the People, as guaranteed by Article I Section II of our state constitution, through a limitied citizens' constitutional convention.

How high the phoenix flies is entirely up to the citizens of this Commonwealth, and their level of support for the mission.

Mission Statement

• to advocate - in every way possible - for a limited citizens' constitutional convention, where We the People, not politicians or special interests, can propose reforms to the intstitutions of government while protecting individual rights.
• to educate the citizenry on how such a convention would operate, to propose specific legislation to enable a convention, and to encourage a statewide discussion on the issue.
• to make publicly available materials and resources useful in meeting the above objectives.