Joyce Haas has an “A” NRA Rating
Many Centre County gun owners have expressed concern that a recent newsletter from the NRA did not show a rating for Joyce Haas. Please rest assured – this was an error. Joyce has received an “A” rating from the NRA based on her answers to its issues questionnaire. Don’t believe distortions being put out by the opposition. If given the privilege of representing you in Harrisburg, Joyce will vote to defend our Constitutionally-guaranteed right to keep and bear arms.
You can confirm Joyce’s “A” rating at the NRA website: http://www.nrapvf.org/upcoming-elections/Pennsylvania.aspx
You can also read more about Joyce’s positions on gun issues here: http://joycehaas.com/sportsmen/
Job Creators Endorse Joyce Haas
Local businessmen Paul Silvis and Dan Hawbaker employ hundreds of workers in Central Pennsylvania.
They know a thing or two about job creation. And they also know a thing or two about Scott Conklin’s record. Conklin votes with Pennsylvania’s small businesses only 25% of the time. As employers, they are supporting Joyce Haas, because she will help local businesses grow and create more good, family-sustaining jobs.
Take it from REAL job creators, on Election Day, The Choice is Joyce!
Joyce Haas on WJAC-TV
Channel 6 WJAC-TV recently invited candidates from around the region to record a brief statement, introducing themselves and their campaign to voters. Their segment featuring Joyce Haas will air this evening (Wednesday, October 27th) between 5:20 and 5:30pm. But you can watch Joyce’s statement now (or any time) online.
Click on the image below to watch Joyce’s statement about her campaign for a more fiscally-responsible government.
Joyce Haas Answers Candidate Questionnaire
The Centre Daily Times asked both candidates running to represent the people of the 77th District to respond to a series of questions. The paper recently published their answers, which can be found here: http://www.centredaily.com/2010/10/13/2268427/jobs-economy-dominant.html
Joyce Haas lays out a platform that rejects the tax-and-spend failures of the last eight years in favor of genuinely business-friendly job creation strategies. While her opponent claims to favor lower business taxes and support small business, he has faithfully backed Ed Rendell’s deficit spending and votes in favor of small businesses only 25% of the time, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). That’s why both the NFIB and PA Business Council have endorsed Joyce Haas, the best choice to help turn around Pennsylvania’s economy.
The full text of Joyce’s responses can be found below:
What is the biggest challenge for Pennsylvania and what will you do about it?
Joyce Haas: Before tackling the looming pension crisis, we must first lower unemployment and grow Pennsylvania’s economy. This is a critical challenge, but not as daunting as it sounds.
With its wealth of natural resources, central location among the nation’s urban hubs, and some of America’s smartest, hardest workers, our Commonwealth should be a destination point for job-creating businesses. We simply need new leadership with fresh perspective. I will oppose efforts to stunt responsible natural gas extraction in the Marcellus Shale. We are blessed with a resource that could bring previously unimaginable opportunity and prosperity to areas where people are struggling, like Philipsburg locally. My opponent recently voted with big-city politicians for the nation’s highest gas tax. I believe we must welcome and nurture this unique opportunity, not chase companies away with high taxes. That is the old, tax-first mentality of the last eight years that created the problem.
What was the top achievement and the biggest disappointment of Gov. Ed Rendell’s eight years in office?
Joyce Haas: As a former teacher, I believe the governor deserves credit for his continued support for early childhood education. Despite cutting education funds elsewhere, he always prioritized these important programs.
However, there have been many disappointments: the political pay-for-play culture that has dominated Harrisburg for the last eight years, refusal to follow through on Gov. Tom Ridge’s plan to phase out the capital stock and franchise tax, and his failure to pass a single state budget on time. Perhaps the greatest, though, has been the out-of-control spending that saddles future generations with crippling debt. Rendell spent like he had a blank check from taxpayers. As a member of the Appropriations committee, my opponent was with Rendell every step of the way, voting for bloated budgets that ballooned the state’s deficit. Thanks to Rendell’s and Conklin’s irresponsibility, Pennsylvania’s elected officials now face difficult, but necessary decisions to protect the future of the commonwealth.
Will you vote to raise taxes in 2011?
Joyce Haas: No.
Three Weeks to Victory
Today marks another crucial point in the campaign to change Pennsylvania for the better. In exactly three weeks – on Tuesday, November 2nd – voters will head to the polls around the Commonwealth and across the nation with a chance to make a bold statement about the need for fresh perspective and new solutions. Out-of-control government and reckless deficit spending must come to an end. We owe this to our children and grandchildren. It begins with November 2010.
Won’t you take an opportunity today to pledge a few hours of support for Joyce’s campaign to transcend career politics and business-as-usual in Harrisburg?
You can sign-up online to volunteer with the campaign, become a Fan of the campaign on the official Facebook page, and make a secure, online donation to help support the crucial final push that will spread Joyce’s message to every corner of the district. Please take action now to let your fellow voters know that Your Choice is Joyce!
Media Covers Joyce Haas at LOWV
Last night, voters attending the Fall League of Women Voters Forum and watching at home on C-Net heard from numerous candidates for public office. On display were the two distinct options facing citizens of the 77th District in choosing the representation they will have in Harrisburg for the next two years.
On one hand, there are the same, failed tax-and-spend policies that have exploded our debt and driven businesses out of Pennsylvania even as statewide unemployment doubled over the last four years. The other choice represents a break from the big city politics of Ed Rendell and the tax-first, spend-first greed that has strangled Pennsylvania’s economy. For moving forward with fresh perspective and stronger leadership, the choice is obvious – THE CHOICE IS JOYCE!
You can read the Centre Daily Times coverage of last night’s forum here: http://www.centredaily.com/2010/10/07/2256930/candidates-tackle-party-politics.html
The StateCollege.com coverage can be read here: http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/marcellus-shale-government-spending-take-spotlight-in-candidate-forum-542612/
League of Women Voters Forum Tonight
Joyce Haas at the Spring LOWV Forum
Joyce Haas will join candidates for public office from around the region in participating in the annual Fall League of Women Voters forum, to be held this evening at 7pm at the State College Municipal Building (243 S. Allen St.). For more information, please visit the League’s website: http://www.palwv.org/centre/index.html
Joyce applauds the efforts of the League and the people at C-Net to provide the voters with these opportunities to hear from their candidates.
News Report on 77th Race
In addition to yesterday’s candidate profile on Joyce Haas, the Centre Daily Times also published an overview of the race to represent the people of the 77th District. Here’s an excerpt:
Haas, a former teacher, is banking on a $5 million deficit and record seven late budgets that she says is the legacy of the administration of Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell, as well as anti-taxation platforms, to make her case against Conklin.
Haas’ other primary talking point: Conklin’s decision to run for two seats in one election. In addition to seeking re-election to the House, he’s also running for lieutenant governor.
“(The House seat) is basically his fallback spot,” Haas said.
A recent finance report shows Conklin shifting $10,000 from his lieutenant governor campaign to his campaign for re-election.
You can read the entire story here: http://www.centredaily.com/2010/10/03/2247363/conklin-faces-challenger-haas.html
This Fall, voters have a clear choice between the business-as-usual career politics that have produced rampant unemployment, high taxes, and unforgivable debt or the new perspective and common sense approach that Joyce Haas will bring to the state capital. To turn things around in Harrisburg, THE CHOICE IS JOYCE!
CDT profiles Joyce Haas
This week’s Sunday edition of the Centre Daily Times featured a profile of Joyce Haas. The piece focuses on Joyce’s life story and how it shaped her dedication to our community and her desire to enter public service.
Here is an excerpt from today’s article:
“Never was there a swear word in our house,” she added, recounting her upbringing as one of eight children on a farm in Milesburg where her father, Frank Conklin, served as a borough councilman, then mayor.
“We had no money, and yet we thought we were the richest people in town, because we had each other,” she said. “My mother and father just made sure we never knew that we didn’t have money.”
A 1963 Bald Eagle Area High School graduate, Haas attended Penn State with loans secured by her father, an agricultural scholarship and paychecks from her job as a cashier.
“We didn’t have money,” she said. “We had the priority of knowing education was important.”
You can read the entire thing here: http://www.centredaily.com/2010/10/03/2247370/joyce-haas-profile.html
Learn more about Joyce’s Story here. She has spent her life in service to her community – teaching, volunteering for charities like the United Way and Diabetes Association, engaging in the public sphere – and Joyce is exactly the sort of dedicated, hard-working leader we need representing us in Harrisburg. She will go there to serve the people, not advance her career.
On Tuesday, November 2nd – THE CHOICE IS JOYCE!
TV Ad: “Our Choice is Joyce”
The JoyceHaas.com has released its first television commercial. Joyce Haas is your neighbor; she has taught in our schools, volunteered for local charities, hunted our forests, and worked with local businesses. She is running for state representative to serve you. For fiscal responsibility and principled leadership, The Choice is Joyce!
You can watch Joyce’s first TV spot below and check it out on the official Joyce Haas YouTube channel.
