(10/2016) It’s been 10 years since my opponent Dan Moul ran for the 91st house seat on a platform of lowering taxes and standing up to the professional politicians. A decade later, our taxes haven’t gone down yet. And Dan Moul now IS a professional politician.
Term limits
Five terms is a long time to serve in the house. Too long. Yet, Mr. Moul is currently running for his 6th term.
That’s far too many terms. In my opinion, no elected official should serve for more than 8 years in the same office. Eight years is what we limit our presidents to. Surely, no other elected office is more important? If a politician still wants to serve after 8 years, s/he can always run for a different elected office. There are plenty of them.
Ten years ago, Dan Moul agreed with me. He spoke out frequently on his support for term limits. Now that the terms to be limited are his, he’s changed his mind. That’s a shame. He had it right at the beginning.
We don’t need professional politicians. We need citizens who care enough to represent their neighbors.
Results not fingerpointing
If we’re going to re-elect the same politicians over and over again, it should be those public servants who actually get the job done. Judging by his own goals of lowering taxes and reducing government waste, Dan Moul just hasn’t done that.
For the past two years, Dan Moul has blamed his lack of results on having a Democratic governor, just as he did at the beginning of his term with Rendell. The problem with that excuse is that of the 10 years Mr. Moul has been in office, he had 4 years during which he had a Republican governor and a Republican controlled legislature. Why didn’t he accomplish his goals
during those years?
So the problem isn’t just that he doesn’t work well across the aisle. Mr. Moul simply doesn’t have the gravitas to lobby effectively for our county within his own party either. After 5 terms, we should be seeing a representative effectively pushing serious substantive legislation. What we got from Mr. Moul this past year was "Pennsylvanian Barn Day".
Five term incumbents should be power brokers, not finger pointers.
Standing up to both parties
Political parties aren’t going to put the needs of Adams County first. We know that. In the eyes of the political power brokers, we will always be the poor country cousin, last in line after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and even Harrisburg. For that very reason, we need a representative who places local residents FIRST, before party ideology.
Time for a change
It’s time to send Harrisburg a new voice to represent Adams County. Someone who understands it’s time to stop pointing fingers and start working together to fix Pennsylvania’s problems. And someone who will work with BOTH parties and represents the needs of Adams County.
That someone is me, Denise Weldon-Siviy.
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