SENATE CANDIDATE STEVE CICKAY IS RUNNING NEAR YOU

In the 10th District race for Pennsylvania Senate, Democratic challenger Steve Cickay has picked up the pace in a very literal way. Running with a team of his supporters throughout the District 10, Cickay is meeting with as many voters as he can before elections next Tuesday. This determined candidate creates some excitement and respect with homeowners as they literally see him running with dogged determination from house to house spreading word of his candidacy on foot. One very impressed voter said “We haven’t seen a politician in our neighborhood in years; can you sign your campaign literature for me?” Cickay happily obliged. Cickay has also run numerous 5Ks throughout District 10 to support numerous charitable causes. His last one before the election will be the Dog Day 5K at Delaware Valley College on Sunday November 2, 2014 at 10 AM.

“I’m surprised by the number of people I’ve met who don’t know who their state senator is, even though he’s been in Harrisburg for sixteen years,” Cickay observed. “I want every voter to understand that I won’t be a do-nothing legislator. The energy carrying me from house to house and neighborhood to neighborhood is the same energy I’ll bring to my work in Harrisburg.”

Cickay’s Republican opponent, Chuck McIlhinney, has been the prime sponsor of fifteen bills in the current two-year session, but only one has become law-- an uncontroversial measure for the voluntary licensing of social workers. “The incumbent proposes bills just to posture, then doing nothing to get them passed,” Cickay said of his opponent. “Liquor lobbyists’ dollars stirred him to action, but his colleagues rejected his irresponsible plan. He’s refused to raise taxes on his big-business friends, but he won’t promise not to raise the income tax. He hasn’t cosponsored or supported bills to tax the shale gas drilling industry fairly, and then suddenly during our debate last week, said he wants to tax them more. What are we to believe from this flip-flopper then? He won’t even permanently ban drilling in Bucks County. And he hasn’t lifted a finger to change the most objectionable practices of state government with respect to ethics and gift-taking.”

Cickay promised to work harder for the people of District 10 than they’ve had to accept during McIlhinney’s long tenure. “Voters know that there are many problems in Bucks County and in Pennsylvania that my opponent has had many years to address. It’s time someone took up the fight in Harrisburg for the broad middle class, the people Chuck McIlhinney has forgotten. That’s why I am running to be your senator.”

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