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Pennsylvania NOW Convention just 3 Weeks Away with TWO Featured Speakers: Terry O'Neill and Sioban "Sam" Bennett

The Pennsylvania NOW Convention “United We Rise” is just three weeks away.  It will be held on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at Crowne Plaza‐Bucks County ♦ 4700 Street Rd ♦ Trevose, PA 19053.
 
PA NOW 2011 Convention Invitation BIG NEWS!  We now have confirmed two GREAT featured speakers! Our Featured Speakers will be Terry O’Neill, National NOW President and Siobhan “Sam” Bennett, President and CEO Women's Campaign Forum & 2008 PA Congressional candidate.

Sam will be our featured speaker at the PAC luncheon that starts at 11:35 am.  Siobhan "Sam" Bennett, President/CEO has served as the President and CEO of the Women’s Campaign Fund (WCF) and its affiliated programs The She Should Run Foundation and WCF PAC since March 2009. Under Sam’s leadership, WCF’s combined budget has more than doubled and the organization’s programmatic reach has expanded to every state in the country and been featured in national syndications, including USA Today and over 200 AP newspapers. Sam has lent her unique perspective as a candidate at the local and federal levels to broaden WCF’s impact on women leaders at all levels of government who support reproductive choices and options, and women who may run for office in the future. Cost for the luncheon is a minimum of $50/person.

Terry will be our featured speaker during the afternoon plenary.  Terry O'Neill, President, National Organization for Women is a feminist attorney, former law professor, and an activist for social justice. O'Neill oversees NOW's multi-issue agenda, which includes: advancing reproductive freedom, promoting diversity and ending racism, stopping violence against women, winning lesbian rights, ensuring economic justice, ending sex discrimination and achieving constitutional equality for women.

We also have a great line-up of workshops that include the following topics:

• Voting Rights, Removing Barriers to Voting, and the Elections process
• Caregiving Care for Caregiver
• Health Care issues including single-payer health care and reproductive health and justice
• Collaborating with other feminist organizations
• School Vouchers and Violence in Schools.

Please spread the word!

Cost for NOW members to attend the Convention is $50 with a sliding scale down to $0.00.  Non-members can register for the Convention for $70.00, which includes a one-year membership in NOW.

To register, you can download this registration form (see below). After completing the form, either mail or email the form with your check/credit card number to our Treasurer, Pamela Macklin.  If you want to pay online for the PAC and/or the luncheon you can do so by credit card at our main website.  Go to http://panow.org and click on the "Donate" button.  Then send the completed registration form to our treasurer at pmacfish@aol.com.
Registration Form for PA NOW Convention and PAC Luncheon
Note two deadlines.  The guaranteed reduced rate for hotel reservations ends on September 15 ($99/night + tax); call the hotel at 1‐215‐364‐2000  to make your reservation. People interested in the PAC luncheon need to reserve their seat at the luncheon by Friday, September 23.  You can either pre-register or register on-site for the convention plenaries, workshops, and cocktail party.  If you are putting your check in the mail for the PAC luncheon, please email our Treasuer at pmacfish@aol.com and let her know that you put the check in the mail to ensure she adds your name to the PAC luncheon.

And here are the directions to the hotel.
Direction Card Crowne Plaza

Again…

Join us at Pennsylvania NOW’s 40^th anniversary convention ON OCTOBER 1 and Please spread the word!

Thank you and see you on October 1.

Congratulations to PA NOW PAC Endorsed Candidates

Congratulations to the PA NOW PAC endorsed candidates for elected office who won their primary races on Tuesday, May 17, 2011.  We encourage the individuals who did not make it to the general election to consider running again in the future.  Thanks for running and speaking out for equality.

Here's the list of the PA NOW PAC endorsed candidates who will appear on the November General Election ballot.  Additional endorsements will likely occur in other races over the summer.

Statewide
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court
Kathryn Boockvar (D) http://www.boockvar.com

Allegheny County
County Executive
Rich Fitzgerald (D) http://www.voterichfitzgerald.com
Wilkinsburg Borough Council, 1st Ward
Paige Trice (D)


Bucks County 
Commissioners (vote for two)
Det Ansinn (D) http://www.bucksvictory.com
Diane Marseglia (D) http://www.bucksvictory.com


Dauphin County
Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans’ Court
Rogette Harris (D) www.voterogette.com


Lancaster County
Manheim Township Commissioner
Doreen Kreiner (D) http://www.kreinerforcommissioner.com


Montgomery County
Clerk of Courts
Ann Thornburg Weiss (D) http://voteweiss.com
Controller
Diane B. Morgan (D) http://dianemorgancontroller.com
Recorder of Deeds
Linda M. Hee (D) http://heefordeeds.com

Spring 2011 Pennsylvania NOW Times

The Pennsylvania NOW Times Spring 2011 issue is now available online. The newsletter includes:

• Our Voters' Guide
• Legislative Updates of the 2011-2012 legislative session in the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
• What Are They Thinking!? - article about the legislative attacks on women, children and people of color.
• United We Rise - article on the upcoming October 1, 2011 PA NOW Convention in Bucks County.
• Proposed By-Laws Amendment
• What Can We Do? - tidbits on what you can do for women's equality
• Chapter Exchange

PA NOW PAC Primary Election Endorsements

Pennsylvania NOW PAC Endorsements

Primary Election Day is Tuesday, May 17, 2011. The following recommendations by the state NOW Political Action Committee  (PA NOW PAC) are presented here for your information. These endorsements are current as of April 26.

 

The Pennsylvania NOW PAC makes endorsements for statewide and local races. At the state level, there is one opening for Justice on the PA Superior Court and one openings for  Justice on the PA Commonwealth Court. At the County level, all County Commissioners or County Executive (Allegheny County) plus all  Row Offices are up for election. In addition, some counties have openings for the county-level Court of Common Pleas. At the local and district level, people are running for District Court Justice, Borough and City Councils, Township Supervisors, and Mayors.

The PA NOW PAC has two levels of approval for candidates. "Endorsement" is the highest level of endorsement and is given only to those candidates who support all of our issues and will take a leadership position on those issues if elected. "Support" is given to those candidates who are good on most of our issues but have a problem with one or two and we believe that these candidates are significantly better than their opposition. As of April 26, all listed candidates have received full endorsement.

Statewide

Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court  (note: you can only vote for one person in this race)

   Kathryn Boockvar (D) http://www.boockvar.com

        Barbara Behrend Ernsberger (D) http://www.ernsbergerforjudge.com
 

Allegheny County

Controller

Valerie McDonald Roberts (D) http://allieswithvalerie.com

County Executive

Rich Fitzgerald (D) http://www.voterichfitzgerald.com

Pittsburgh City Council, District 9

       Phyllis Copeland-Mitchell (D)  http://mitchell4citycouncil.org

Wilkinsburg Borough Council, 1st Ward

Paige Trice (D)

Wilkinsburg Borough Council, 2nd Ward

       Beverly McCoy (D)

Bucks County

Commissioners (vote for two)

Det Ansinn (D) http://www.bucksvictory.com

Diane Marseglia (D) http://www.bucksvictory.com

Dauphin County

Clerk of Courts

Shamaine Daniels (D) http://www.shamainedaniels.com or http://espanol.shamainedaniels.com

 Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans’ Court

Rogette Harris (D) www.voterogette.com

Lancaster County

Manheim Township Commissioner

Doreen Kreiner (D) http://www.kreinerforcommissioner.com

Montgomery County

Clerk of Courts

Ann Thornburg Weiss (D) http://voteweiss.com

Controller

       Diane B. Morgan (D) http://dianemorgancontroller.com

    Recorder of Deeds

Linda M. Hee (D) http://heefordeeds.com

 

The PA NOW PAC needs your help.

In order to put out a voter’s guide and to assist NOW endorsed candidates for statewide and local office, we need funds donated directly to the PA NOW PAC.  If you are interested in electing public officials who support full equality of women, then please consider donating to the PA NOW PAC. Mail your donation to the PA NOW PAC, P.O. Box 8614, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221.  You can also donate online to the PAC via credit card at http://panow.org/PAC_file/PANOWPAC.htm. Thank you!