How would you feel if someone you considered a friend suddenly turned against you? Not only that but what if they did everything they could to destroy your career?
If you want an answer, just ask several current (and former) Republican state lawmakers who have bent over backward to support government unions only to see those same unionsâ leaders turn around and spend big in elections to defeat them.
Like many devious friends, the union leaders havenât betrayed lawmakers to their faces. Instead, theyâve done it through a front group that hides its major funding sources and exploits a loophole in state law, allowing it to obscure political spending.
Reply
The City of Philadelphia is requiring non-residents who work in the city to get a letter from their employer proving they worked from home in order to be reimbursed for the city wage tax. Bucks County lawmakers say it creates an unnecessary hurdle. (Shutterstock)
BUCKS COUNTY, PA A delegation of state lawmakers from Bucks County is asking Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney to reimburse any city workers who paid a city wage tax while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ten lawmakers, including seven Republicans and three Democrats, wrote a letter to Mayor Kenney on Tuesday asking him to direct the city s revenue department to lift a requirement for those applying for the city wage tax refund. The requirement is this: Residents of suburban counties who work in Philadelphia but don t want to pay for the 3.5 percent city wage tax must request a letter from their employer, on company letterhead, stating the time period or dates they were required to work remotely.
NORRISTOWN â Elected officials in four Southeast Pennsylvania counties continue to express frustration with the stateâs allocation of COVID-19 vaccine to the region and called for more transparency from state health officials about the vaccine rollout.
In a joint statement issued on Monday by officials from Montgomery, Chester, Delaware and Bucks counties, the leaders said a one-hour virtual meeting they had with the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Sunday was âboth disappointing and frustrating.â
âThere remains a lack of transparency on the total doses that have come to our counties from every source. Therefore, we have no way to assess how the data presented to us today was calculated, and how those calculations have been used to determine the number of doses that have been allocated to our four counties,â the leaders wrote in the joint statement.
NORRISTOWN â Elected officials in four Southeast Pennsylvania counties continue to express frustration with the stateâs allocation of COVID-19 vaccine to the region and called for more transparency from state health officials about the vaccine rollout.
In a joint statement issued on Monday by officials from Montgomery, Chester, Delaware and Bucks counties, the leaders said a one-hour virtual meeting they had with the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Sunday was âboth disappointing and frustrating.â
âThere remains a lack of transparency on the total doses that have come to our counties from every source. Therefore, we have no way to assess how the data presented to us today was calculated, and how those calculations have been used to determine the number of doses that have been allocated to our four counties,â the leaders wrote in the joint statement.
Frustration over vaccine allocation mounts in SE Pennsylvania thereporteronline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thereporteronline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.