State Senate Candidates

Sue Means bears none of scars and stains of the lies or failures of both Mustio and Raja AS THEY busily attack each other.

Only Sue is the 'citizen legislator'; Sound policies and principles are in her life and on: http://electsuemeans.com/

Raja and Mustio have many things in common (only Mark got the P-G's endorsement-read on):

The most egregious commonality is their wish to shrink the number of Representatives in Pennsylvania's Legislature.
- to cut costs? NYET –see analysis below
- to become more efficient? NYET- at who’s expense?
- to consolidate power DA YES!– the real objective

This will further disenfranchise voters;

Cutting the number of Reps 25% (Mustio’s proposal) will empower THEM to even further IGNORE the voters’ wishes. And Raja concurs.. http://joinraja.com/policy/

They claim that this will cut costs in PA. IT WILL NOT

Spending time yammering about the legislature’s cost of $315 million, when our state’s budget is $63,600,000 Million or less than ONE HALF OF ONE PERCENT (.5%)
and our deficit is $5,000 million,
is sheer sophistry.

SUE MEANS WILL FOCUS ON REAL ISSUES not on this lateral arabesque distraction.
Does Pennsylvania Need Fewer Legislators?
A proposal to reduce the Pennsylvania State House from 203 representatives to 153 will be voted on in the coming weeks by the House. The proposal is certainly popular, but is it much ado about nothing?
As Daily News columnist John Baer notes, the reduction wouldn't take effect until after the 2020 redistricting plan goes into effect— at least 10 years from now. This date assumes the proposed constitutional amendment passes both the House and Senate this session, and next legislative session, and is then approved by voters.
The proposal is often sold as cost-savings. At $314 million, the cost of running the legislature is no small matter, but reducing the number of legislators need not reduce costs. The biggest cost in the state legislature is not its 253 members, but its 2,919 staff members, the largest legislative staff in the nation. Indeed, lawmaker salaries are only a bit more than 10 percent of the General Assembly's total cost. And reducing legislative spending need not wait a decade, it can happen in the next budget.
The more important question is whether this is good policy. Our analysis shows almost zero connection between the number of legislators and policy outcomes like spending, taxes, or economic freedom. As we've repeated time and time again, it is unlikely that minimizing the legislature's size without other reforms will improve Harrisburg's spending problem. From:

http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/research/cf/fl/17/legislative-size