Progressive Victories on Fracking & Voter ID from PA Courts [VIDEO]

[Counterpoint PA]

This is a video from my show Counterpoint PA, the only grassroots progressive newscast exclusively about Pennsylvania politics.

In this video, I explain recent Pennsylvania court rulings on voting rights and environmental rights that are significant victories for progressives in the state. The first comes from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which struck down one of the most egregious parts of the state's fracking law that allowed corporations to frack virtually anywhere and blocked municipalities from using local zoning laws to stop them, and the second comes from Commonwealth Court, which ruled that the state's voter ID law is so harsh it amounts to voter disenfranchisement. I offer some of my own commentary on conservatives' record of pushing hard for and vociferously defending these laws and how progressives can use that to their advantage.

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[arachadillo]

1. Nice show

The zoning laws change sounds good...if I recall, the current governor also decreased transparency in people's ability to see the violations being given to the frackers.....

I've looked at PA polls for a year now, and the governor's negative polls do not appear to change much at all...it will be pretty historic when he loses after his first term...PA people tend to switch from one party to the next during election season, but history shows they almost always give the incumbant another chance...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/governor/

there's an easy way to lean and a hard way to learn PA politics, it appears as if the governor is going to learn it the hard way.

[Counterpoint PA]

2. Thanks for the compliment and for watching! :)

I have to agree that polls are looking pretty atrocious right now, I just hope the Democrats wind up with decently progressive candidate instead of someone who capitulates to conservatives on half of issues.