An upbeat townhall concerning paycheck protection and related issues in Pennsylvania ended, tonight, March 19, in Newtown Square without a hitch despite a contingent of 10 union activists who attended with the intent to make a few.
An initial attempt at disruption was quickly squelched by moderators and security when the leader tried to begin a mocking Pledge of Allegiance.
The group sat beaten and sullen throughout the night before leaving in a noisy production shortly before the question and answer session. Their questions would have been welcomed it should be noted.
The event was sponsored by the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity and featured WPHT talk host Dom Giordano; AFP-Pa Director Jennifer Stefano, a frequent guest on Hannity; Penn Delco School Director Lisa Esler; and children’s rights advocate Simon Campbell who heads Pennsylvanians for Union Reform.
Paycheck protection is an effort to end the use of taxpayer resources to collect government unions’ political money. It was pointedly noted that it does not make Pennsylvania “right to work” or change how unions can collectively bargain or eliminate union dues or mandatory fee payments. Mrs. Stefano expressed puzzlement as to why private sector unions were the ones who usually turned out to protest as the proposal would only affect government unions.
Right to work means workers may not be forced to pay union dues.
For the record, none of the speakers were opposed to right to work. In fact, Mrs. Stefano called paycheck protection “a good first step.”
The other major issue addressed by the speakers was HB 1154, the bill overwhelmingly passed, March 11, by the State House that would amend the criminal code to prohibit harassment, stalking and the "threat to use weapons of mass destruction. It now awaits an uncertain fate in the union-friendly, yet Republican-controlled, State Senate.
The bill, despite being introduced almost a year ago, only came to be passed after 10 member of Ironworks Local 401 were indicted for burning down a Quaker meeting house being built with nonunion labor and for the vicious harassment of Sarina Rose, an executive at developers Post Brothers, who was subject to vile public abuse and whose children were threatened.
“What kind of low life scum would harass a soccer mom?” said Giordano to the silent discomfort of the union contingent.
Mrs. Stefano treated the guests with equal contempt.
"“What kind of low life scum would harass a soccer mom?”"
Union members who are so devout they might as well be communist officials in the old USSR.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
RIGHT'S RIGHT 
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