On November 28, elections officials in Pennsylvania finished two recounts for State House of Representatives. The results show that Democrats have the narrowest possible margin in the House. There will be 102 Democrats and 101 Republicans when the new State House convenes. This result is somewhat surprising, since the tallies on election night showed Republicans were more likely to control the house. The final result turned on the outcome in the 156th district, which Democrats won by 23 votes.
Representative Paul Clymer, a Republican, will no longer be chair of the House committee that handles ballot access. No one knows whom the new chair will be. Representative Clymer has been obstructing ballot access reform in Pennsylvania for the past several years, and he won’t be missed.
Is Paul Clymer related to Jim Clymer of Pennsylvania, the national chairman of the Constitution Party?
There is even a founding father named George Clymer from Pennsylvania who signed the U.S. Constitution. Are any of the Clymers related at all? Interesting.
The whole PA legislature (and court system) needs to
wake up to meaningful ballot access reform right now…
while the window might still be open.
Steve,
I’ve found that people from PA are more likely to be related to one another than people from other states of similar size, but not neccessarily more likely to know one another.
Ed,
There’s a good chance of that, I think. Democrats are motivated by self interest just like everyone else in the system and I’m sure they’d think that having Greens on the ballot is a small price to pay for the presence of the LP and CP.
No,
Jim and Paul are not related, I asked Jim this question before and as far as he knows they are not.
Or maybe Jim is related to Adam, formerly of the New York Times and a well-known major-league . . .