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Rep. Patrick MurphyPosted by Chairman on March 3, 2008 - 9:47am. In 2006, Democrats across Pennsylvania stood together and demanded change – not just for our state, but for our country. Across the Commonwealth, we won elections – including mine – where no one gave us a chance. Together, through our commitment to change the status quo and rubberstamp Congress, we were able to send four new Pennsylvania Democrats to Washington. I am honored to represent you and I am working hard to make Pennsylvania proud. The 2006 victory was the result of long days, a lot of late nights, and a commitment to win. In my new book, Taking the Hill: From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress, I write about my campaign – and what it meant to have such grassroots support from so many in Pennsylvania. From what I witnessed in Iraq to our hard-fought campaign, it is a story about service and I hope it inspires others to get involved, not just in politics or the military, but to become public servants for our community and country. As the first Iraq war veteran elected to Congress, it is an honor to fight on behalf of our troops and veterans as well as to bring our troops home from Iraq. In my book, I describe seeing – up close – the foreign policy failures of the Bush administration. We cannot continue these policies and we cannot – as some have suggested – stay in Iraq for 100 years. In 2006, we worked together to bring change to Washington. Join me and your fellow Democrats as we continue the fight for a new direction both at home and abroad. If we work together this year, if we stand up for the values and country we believe in, then there is no doubt we’ll be successful again throughout our state. -- Rep. Patrick Murphy (PA-08) |
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Congratulations on winning your seat. I hope to see more veterans becoming involved in politics. I believe that we veterans are the best hope in preventing another needless and wasteful war. I served aboard the U.S.S. Harry S Truman (CVN-75) and was deployed twice in support of the war. I feel that former Secretary of Defense Rumsfield wanted a war fought on the cheap and that is exactly what he got. Sadly, we all paid for that shallow vision. Many of us thought the reasons for going to war were shady at best. After the invasion was complete, we all felt as if we were duped; and we were. I recently retired from the Navy and came home to Pennsylvania (I am originally from Wilkes-Barre). Once I got settled in, I then promptly switched my party from the Republican to the Democratic. Thanks again. Your a great example to the rest of us.
Congratulations Patrick on your book. I saw you on Book TV last weekend and went right out and bought the book. I've been a contributor to your campaigns since you started and support what you are doing 110%. Every day more of the 935 lies that led our country to an immoral, illegal invasion of a country that never attacked us, surface. Representatives so knowledgable about our Constitution as you are, must be reelcted to call these war mongers to account. It's beyond belief how low Bush and Cheney have dragged our beloved country. Never could I believe in my lifetime (and I'm a grandmother) that our country would torture, hide people in secret prisons and hold them years without charges. I ask my friends if they can tell me ANYTHING, anything in this country that works right since Bush is in the White House. Coal miners die in unsafe, uninspected mines. Poor people drown in New Orleans! Veteran's needs are ignored. Archived White House records required by law to be saved are willfully destroyed. FEMA is a mess. The FAA, FTC, FCC, FDA, NLRB, OSHA, HHS, DHS, all a mess, only serving interests of big business or the religious right. Tainted meat, poisoned toys, big tax breaks for oil and gas corporations making obscene profits, billions of taxpayer's hard-earned dollars unaccounted for in no-bid contracts and down a rat hole in Iraq. Corruption the likes of which boggles the mind becomes common place. I meet people all the time who are so disgusted. They say everyone in Washington is the same, on the take or out of touch with working people. My Congressman Charlie Dent votes with Bush all the time. But I tell these folks, I know one guy who I believe is honestly doing his best for Pennsylvania: Rep. Patrick Murphy. Keep up the good work and many blessings on you and your family Patrick.
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Thank you Rep. Murphy for your service to our country and for being among the first Pennsylvanians in Congress to cosponsor HR 5036, the Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act, as introduced by our fellow Democrat Rush Holt of NJ.
If we do not have secure and accurately counted elections, the changes we need to make in our country will become impossible and our democracy will no longer exist. Thank you for recognizing this fact, and for supporting this new "opt-in" bill that will allow counties to protect the 2008 election in the way that makes the most sense for their own local citizens, be it optical scan voting systems with voter-marked paper ballots, emergency paper ballots for use if electronic machines break on election day, or audits or hand counts or the results.
I hope that the rest of the PA Delegation to Congress will join you and cosponsor HR 5036 ASAP -- and that our own Bob Brady will move this excellent bill rapidly out of his committee and to the House floor as introduced without amendment -- so that every county that wants these protections will have them in time for November.
I also invite all my fellow rank-and-file Democrats to get involved and help with our elections this year as a pollworker or as one of our pollwatchers.
Our democracy is worth every effort we make to protect it!
Thank you again, for recognizing this and for your cosponsorship of HR 5036.
Marybeth Kuznik
State Committee Member, Westmoreland County
Elected Majority Inspector of Elections, Penn Twp 4-2
(Any reader wanting more information about HR 5036 please go to http://www.VotePA.us )
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Mr. Murphy has an opportunity to be the new agent of change or the new recruit for the old guard. His choice.
Patrick, It's a fine book. I've read it through twice and am working on a review. As a parent, though, I do wish you would have provided some detail on what happened when you failed algebra. Surely it was something terrible -- grounded for a month? denied use of the family car? Your mother "was concerned about where I was heading" (p. 22). No kidding. I'd like to hear her side of this.