Chester County Democrats

On Sunday, May 18th, Carol Palmaccio will be formally announcing her candidacy for State Representative in the 167th District.

Special guest: State Senator Andy Dinniman.

We would love to have you with us to celebrate with Carol together from 2 to 5PM at:

Summerbank Farm
Home of Mr. & Mrs. Arno Meyer
239 Spring Road
Malvern, PA 19355

Between Sugartown Rd. and S. Warren Rd., south of Paoli Pike, Willistown.

To RSVP: 610-647-6764 or CPalmaccioCommittee@comcast.net.

“There’s no doubt that she’s qualified to be vice-president; there’s no doubt she’s qualified to be president. She is tireless, she is smart. She is capable. And so obviously she’d be on anybody’s shortlist to be a potential
vice-presidential candidate.”

— Barack Obama, speaking about Hillary Clinton, as quoted May 9 2008 The Guardian (UK).

(by email 5/6/08)

During the 2006 campaign, I wrote you often about children’s issues. I pledged that once in the Senate I would make this a primary focus and that together we would fight for the health care, education, and child care that working families need to ensure that their kids can succeed.

So far, we are fighting to expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program and we’ve introduced legislation to provide high-quality pre-kindergarten education (Senate Bill 1374). Today, we began the fight to ensure that working families have the child care they so desperately need.

Just hours ago, I introduced the Starting Early, Starting Right Act. This legislation addresses an enormous unmet need by increasing funding for child care, with the dual goals of helping more families afford care and improving the quality of early care. Continue Reading »

from Media Matters, 5/8/08

Summary: During an interview, Today co-host Ann Curry asked Cindy McCain about her refusal to release her tax returns, but did not challenge McCain’s refusal by noting that John McCain’s campaign has benefited financially from her wealth, and without noting that McCain supports the permanent extension of President Bush’s tax cuts, from which those with capital gains — something that would be indicated on Cindy McCain’s tax returns — benefit significantly.

On the May 8 edition of NBC’s Today, co-host Ann Curry interviewed Cindy Hensley McCain, Sen. John McCain’s wife, who said in response to calls for her to release her tax returns: “[M]y husband and I have been married 28 years, and we have filed separate tax returns for 28 years. This is a privacy issue. My husband is the candidate.” Curry responded by asking, “So you’ll never release, you’re saying? … Even if you’re first lady?” After McCain said, “No,” Curry added, “Because that is — even though not an elected position, you would be in a very public role.” McCain replied, “I’m not the candidate.”

Beyond noting Cindy McCain’s “very public role” if she became first lady, Curry did not challenge her with any other reason why her tax returns are relevant to the presidential campaign. Among those reasons: John McCain, and therefore John McCain’s campaign, benefits from his wife’s wealth, and the tax returns would indicate the extent to which Cindy McCain — and presumably therefore John McCain — has benefited from President Bush’s tax cuts, which McCain supports permanently extending. Continue Reading »