TO: Interested partiesFROM: Beth Melena, Communications DirectorSUBJECT: Wagner Caught on Tape Telling Crowd How He Killed Shale Tax To Hurt Governor Wolf’s Re-electionDATE: September 30, 2017 In a shocking development, The Morning Call just broke a story that Scott Wagner was caught on tape telling a room of Tea Partiers that he conspired with House ... Read more

* Wagner’s Sept. 14 comments were recorded by a state Democratic Party tracker who tails him on the campaign trail. Here’s part of what the audio picked up: “I went to school with Stan Saylor,” Wagner said. “And I told Stan at a meeting three weeks ago, he was sitting like fifteen feet away from ... Read more

Rally Highlights Continued Backlash Against Toxic Republican Agenda While Pat Meehan and Paul Ryan tried to sell the House Republicans’ deeply unpopular tax cut plan — which was written by Wall Street and gives tax breaks to people like Trump — in Aston today, activists and local residents protested outside of Meehan’s Springfield Office to ... Read more

Yesterday, on the Dom Giordano program on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, Scott Wagner was asked how he felt about being endorsed by white supremacist and anti-Semite Steve Bannon, the leader of America’s so-called “alt-right movement,” who maintains close ties to Donald Trump. Scott Wagner’s reply? “I love it.” LISTEN HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1O1fQoPmW4&feature=youtu.be “Of course Scott Wagner ... Read more

Earlier this week, Scott Wagner was endorsed by white supremacist and anti-Semite Steve Bannon, the leader of America’s so-called “alt-right movement,” who maintains close ties to Donald Trump.  Scott Wagner’s hometown paper, the York Dispatch editorialized, “Pennsylvanians prefer a more balanced approach in their politicians. So a gubernatorial candidate endorsed by the far-right, divisive Bannon? ... Read more

* He also draws controversy, from asserting that climate change is caused by body heat to saying he’d be “sitting in the back of the room with a baseball bat” in reference to getting things done in Harrisburg. This spring, there was a police investigation after he grabbed the camera of a man filming him ... Read more

Congressional GOP Tax Plan Leaves Hardworking Pennsylvanians Behind Yesterday, Congressional Republicans admitted defeat on their health care scheme that would have sent out-of-pocket health care costs skyrocketing and forced older Pennsylvanians to pay an age tax for care. Today, Congressional Republicans announced a tax scheme that would raise taxes on the middle class and lower ... Read more

Over the weekend, Scott Wagner was endorsed by alt right leader Steve Bannon at an ultra-conservative conference in St. Louis. When he was first asked about this yesterday, Scott Wagner told the York Dispatch that it was just a “coincidence” that they were going to the same rally. But  later the same day, Wagner admitted ... Read more

Over the weekend, Scott Wagner flew with Steve Bannon to St. Louis to attend an ultra-conservative conference where Bannon endorsed Wagner’s gubernatorial run. This should not be surprising. Bannon has been plotting a coordinated attack on republican establishment candidates and Scott Wagner’s anti-semitic, white nationalist, and pro-Trump views as well as his extremist positions on ... Read more

* The Pike County Democratic Committee held its annual dinner recently at the Best Western Hotel to the largest number of attendees in recent history. Six of the statewide Supreme, Superior and Commonwealth Court Judges who are candidates in this year’s Nov. 7 election were dinner speakers. * The dinner attendees also heard from Pennsylvania Supreme ... Read more