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PA voter registration deadline is Monday, October 21.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 5.
Registration and voting info is below.

Please Vote.
http://www.patomalley-consulting.com/2024-allegheny-county-voting-information.html

Today is National Voter Registration Day.
If you're not registered yet, please do it now.
This is what you need to know to vote in Allegheny County.

2024 Allegheny County Voting Information Who - How - When - Where to register and vote in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in 2024. Allegheny county voting. PA voting. PA voter registration. Voting information. 2024 Election PA. Community Matters. Learn the background behind the news. Pat O’Malley, Social Policy & Programs Consulting, Pitt...

Does anyone know what Trump said to Harris when they shook hands last night?
She said "Thank you".

Yet another pathetic turnout for the 43rd annual Pittsburgh Labor Day parade.
It WAS the biggest in US until the Allegheny Fayette Central Labor Council stopped promoting it.
Unconscionable dereliction of duty.
I've seen bigger crowds downtown for a Pirates game.
And that says a lot.

We spent last week in Canada - Niagara Falls and Gananoque, Ontario.
Saw the Falls, toured a War of 1812 Fort, cruised the Thousand Islands and a castle. Had a lovely time.
Sorry, didn't really take any pictures.

I wore my Kamala Harris pin.
Canadians all over asked me about it.
None of them favor Trump.
Most treat the election like a spectator sport.

The election is 76 days away.
If you have questions about registering or voting, the answers are probably here.
The campaign will not give you these answers.
Feel free to print, share, or repost this anywhere.
Voters need this info and the campaign will not give it to you.

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Don't expect sanity
from crazy people.
You'll hurt your head.

Just in case y'all missed it the last time.

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I hate stupid people.
If we end birthright citizenship, then how does ANYONE become a citizen?

Do we all have to take a test when we become adults?
So no one under 18 can possibly be a citizen?

This is not a rhetorical question.
I want answers.

2024 Allegheny County Voting Information

For more than 40 years, I’ve volunteered for election campaigns. voters often ask questions about registration and voting details. When volunteers can’t give this information because they don’t have it, we know we’re losing votes. A few elections ago, I wrote this guide.
The campaigns refuse to use it. They tell me it's not the "right font", or the "right card stock".

So, since the campaigns and the parties hide this information from you, here it is. Please share it widely

2024 Allegheny County Voting Information Who - How - When - Where to register and vote in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in 2024. Allegheny county voting. PA voting. PA voter registration. Voting information. 2024 Election PA. Community Matters. Learn the background behind the news. Pat O’Malley, Social Policy & Programs Consulting, Pitt...

The second in my series of vintage articles on the presidency. From 2015.

How to Become President of the United States The presidential election processes. How to become president, presidential election process, presidential primaries, us presidential election. Community Matters. The Presidency. Voting and Elections. Learn the background behind the news. Pat O’Malley, Social Policy & Programs Consulting, Pittsburg...

May you live
in
interesting times.

Okay. Supreme Court term limits can only happen with a constitutional amendment.
That will take years and cost $millions$.
No one else is saying this because they don't know it because our schools suck.
Read Articles III and V.

U.S. Constitution Full Text Learn About the United States (U.S.) Constitution. Visit ConstitutionFacts.com to read the full text of the U.S. Constitution, plus fascinating facts.

Sometimes they screw up.
That Time I Walked Into a Secret Service Sniper’s Nest

That Time I Walked Into a Secret Service Sniper’s Nest In September 2009, Pittsburgh hosted the conference of the G-20 group of government leaders at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. I was, and still am, writing Community Matters, a column in which I use current events and the Constitution to teach civics and government. I don’t report the new...

Take a few minutes to learn what you're celebrating.

Read the Declaration of Independence And remember the prisoners at the border. On Thursday, Americans will celebrate the Declaration of Independence with picnics, parades, and fireworks. Meanwhile, the United States government confines thousands of desperate migrants in horrid, squalid, concentration camps at our southern border. Decla...

So it's political season again, and we're swamped with polls saying all kinds of stuff.
Most people don't "believe" in polls. But that's because they don't know how they work.

It's not just guessing. There's a scientific method to it.
And they are accurate, if you design them properly.

Understand Political Polling
How it works and what it means.

Understand Political Polling How it works and what it means. 2016 Election, political polling, presidential polls, pollsters, are polls accurate, how polling works. Community Matters. Voting and Elections. Learn the background behind the news. Pat O’Malley, Social Policy & Programs Consulting, Pittsburgh PA. Using US Constitu...

It's Pride Month again.
If you want a month/week/day to honor some other constituency, then get up and ORGANIZE it.

Why Do They Need a Parade? Happy LGBTQ Pride Month. I attended Pittsburgh’s Pride Parade with my husband on June 8. Mayor Bill Peduto said it was our biggest Pride parade ever, and second in the city only to the Labor Day Parade. He’s wrong. Pride overwhelmed Labor. It was at least twice the size of recent Labor Day march...

Why Do They Need a Parade?
Happy LGBTQ Pride Month

Why Do They Need a Parade? Happy LGBTQ Pride Month. I attended Pittsburgh’s Pride Parade with my husband on June 8. Mayor Bill Peduto said it was our biggest Pride parade ever, and second in the city only to the Labor Day Parade. He’s wrong. Pride overwhelmed Labor. It was at least twice the size of recent Labor Day march...

JGOB has a new hat!

Once again, the goofballs exploit the public’s civic and political ignorance to spread their lies.

They claim that Exec Orders are unconstitutional, yet they didn’t have that problem with any orders issued by Republican presidents.

Executive Orders and the U.S. Constitution Presidential executive orders. Obama executive orders. constitution executive orders. executive orders. unconstitutional executive orders. Righties cry that Obama’s Executive Orders are illegal. They exploit political ignorance to spread lies. But they supported Republican Executive Orders. Commun...

Summer, and swimming time, are here.
I made my son learn to swim when he was young.
It came in handy when, in high school, he fell out of a canoe into the Conemaugh river.
Teach Your Children.

Teach Your Children  Six teenagers from two families drowned yesterday when the sandbar on which they were standing collapsed, throwing them into the Red River near Shreveport, LA.