Tuesday, August 08, 2006

105: "Changes for Clean Sweep"

News just in from OperationCleanSweepPA. We’ll let Russ Diamond tell it:

PACleanSweep Loses Corporate Bureaucracy

Lebanon County Judge Samuel Kline today granted a motion to dissolve the non-profit corporation known as PACleanSweep, Inc. Five members of the corporation’s Board of Directors filed the motion after months of deadlocks within the organization regarding how to follow up the group’s success over the last year.

“This is not the end of the movement,” said Russ Diamond, PACleanSweep founder, “rather this is simply an adjustment in the way the group operates. The corporate structure that we set up last year, while well-intentioned, significantly hampered the effort to compete in the fast-paced political realm.”

Diamond, one of the petitioners, intends to continue maintaining the PACleanSweep.com website, which was established before any corporate structure was put in place.

Bucks County attorney Lawrence Otter was appointed Receiver by the court to wind up the now- defunct corporation’s affairs and liquidate its assets.

Roadmap to Reform

PACleanSweep raised nearly 100 candidates to run in the 2006 primary election in its effort to change the face of Pennsylvania’s General Assembly. 35 of those candidates won their primary race with seven of those victories coming at the expense of incumbents.

The group was also instrumental in the first-ever non- retention of a state Supreme Court Justice when Russell Nigro lost his seat last November.

“We did well over the last year, and that’s something to be proud of. But true reform is not a once-and- done thing. We’ve only gotten lip service and reform- lite so far as a result of the public outrage over the pay raise. The people of Pennsylvania need to maintain their focus on everything that’s wrong in Harrisburg and continue to keep the pressure on elected officials;” concluded Diamond.

About PACleanSweep
PACleanSweep is a non-partisan effort dedicated to defeating incumbent elected officials in Pennsylvania and replacing them with true public servants. For more information, please visit
www.PACleanSweep.com.

Russ Diamond
chair@pacleansweep.com
717.383.3025

We look forward to supporting Russ’s efforts any way we can. The more incumbents dethroned, the better for Pennsylvania citizens.

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