Pennsylvania State Sen. Ted Erickson (R-26) gave a contingent from the Delaware County Patriots a private rundown, this morning, Aug. 13, on legislative issues about which they had concerns. While not everything about what was happening and where he stood on things was what the group wanted to hear, there was a significant amount of agreement.

Erickson also listened to the explanations the group offered with regard to why these issues were a concern and he appeared sincere in his attentiveness.

The Patriots is one of the many groups that started in the nation in response to the Democrat Party’s drive to take over the nation’s health care system under Barack Obama. The prescient wisdom of these groups is become more apparent daily, unfortunately.

The first issue discussed with Erickson was Common Core, the rather underhanded attempt to federalize the educational system that is causing grassroots opposition to pop up through out the nation. Gov. Tom Corbett has stopped the implementation of it in this state.

“I don’t know what will happen right now,” said Erickson in regard to the program. “I’m willing to look at Common Core and go from there.” He said as a former educator he was strongly in favor of school accountability, and that No Child Left Behind was a failure. He said, however, he was fine with pending legislation in the State House that would maintain Pennsylvania’s independence in developing its own curriculum.

From BillLawrenceDittos.com

The meeting actually went kind of well. That was the one issue where it was made clear to him that he'd royally tick off his base if he pursued it.

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He said he supported increases in gas taxes and tolls to raise money to repair infrastructure


Bad bad bad...

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