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PACleanSweep Plans Constitutional Convention Exhibition
PACleanSweep plans to host a Constitutional Convention Exhibition in early 2011 and is currently seeking volunteer delegates to participate in the exercise. The Exhibition will be presented as a demonstration of how an actual constitutional convention would work in Pennsylvania. Based on the provisions of the group's proposed Citizens' Constitutional Convention Act of 2011, the Exhibition will serve as a preview of what could happen at a real constitutional convention, where citizens of Pennsylvania would debate reforms to the structures of government while protecting individual rights. The event will be timed to occur shortly after the next legislative session begins... Read more
We've Waited Long Enough
In the five years since the infamous pay raise, calls for structural government reform have reverberated throughout the Keystone State. Whether the focus of those calls is term limits, the size of the state legislature, the way electoral districts are drawn after each decennial census, the manner in which Pennsylvania chooses members of the judiciary, the state budget process, or the prospect for referendum and recall, the people have voiced opinions. The state legislature, despite holding all the cards on these issues, has been mostly unresponsive... Read more
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