Union County Commissioners have been asked to pass a resolution in support of an independent, appointed, special committee to create future congressional district lines. Please attend the Commissioners Meeting to oppose this.

Liberals have been emboldened by the decision of our activist PA Supreme Court which threw out duly decided congressional boundaries. Now they want the Union County Commissioners to pressure legislators into giving up their responsibility to draw boundaries.

The Pennsylvania Constitution gives sole responsibility for drawing districts to the legislature. The previous districts were passed in a bi-partisan manner consistent with the law. However, as part of a nationwide effort to undermine our republic, liberal activists continue to assail state legislatures to willingly abdicate their responsibility to their constituents. Part of this effort is to gather supporting resolutions from other government entities and organizations.

Please make your best attempt to attend the Union County Commissioner’s meeting next week on Tuesday, March 27 at 2 pm in the Union County Government Center, 155 N. 15th Street, Lewisburg.

Tell our commissioners to reject efforts to change who draws Congressional districts.

Even if you cannot attend, our commissioners still need to hear from you.
Email them at Commissioners@UnionCo.org

It Matters!

What a difference fifty years can make, in two generations we can see great change.

During the 1960’S, one of the great political subjects of the time was, “ old enough to fight, old enough to vote”. Rally after rally, it became one of the key issues of the time for all students to change the law and reduce the voting age from 21 to 18. This was a movement that insisted that those who could be drafted to serve in the armed forces, and fight in Vietnam, should have the right to vote. This movement culminated in the adoption of the 26th amendment to the constitution in 1971.

Today, we have another student movement taking form, that to restrict gun rights, and raise the age to purchase long guns, from 18, to 21. Yes, today we have students working to restrict and remove their own rights! Not expand them. After the tragedy of the Florida, Parkland high school shooting, many groups, including some of the surviving students have taken up the call to attack gun rights, including those organizations that are seen as an impediment to this agenda, as well as any corporate entity doing business with them. At first I found this “ ban everything “ approach to probably be solely emotional, as it is being promoted as key to the exclusion of all other ideas. But I think this approach says more about our current culture, than even political ideology.

Students today are rallying on campuses nationwide, for “safe spaces”, so that they can be protected from ideas and opinions they do not agree with. There are even polls showing students do not support free speech, if it does not agree with their opinions, and they protest, and shout down conservative speakers time after time.

I think we need to examine, and think about what is different now than fifty years ago, why do students now avoid debate rather than debating “truth to power”, and now demand safe spaces to risk exposure to others views? Why is the avoidance of responsibility to protect oneself now seen as the cure-all to random violence? Why does it take the Lewisburg School district organizing a student walkout on March 14, for our local students to protest? I guess they do not have the backbone to protest as their grandparents did, and risk the discipline they would have been subject to outside their safe spaces. One could almost be forgiven for assuming that our local students are being enabled as pawns.

Editorial submitted by Jeff Thompson, chair of UCRC “It Matters” initiative