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Radio PA Roundtable – November 27-30, 2014

On this week’s Radio PA Roundtable, Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley is our special guest, talking about the election, his duties, his future and the potential for a lame duck session in January.

Radio PA Roundtable is a 30-minute program featuring in-depth reporting, commentary and analysis on the top news stories of the week.

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Sate Capitol View from Commonwealth Ave.

Ask the “Lieutenant” Governor – November 2014

Ask the Governor is a monthly presentation of Radio PA and PAMatters.com featuring Governor Tom Corbett. This is the program for November 2014, with special guest Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley. Topics include the election, the role of the Lieutenant Governor, the chances for a lame-duck session in January and much more.

Governor Corbett will return for his final appearance on Ask the Governor on December 17th. Send a question or comment for the governor by using the Ask the Governor link at the top of this page.

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Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley Appears on Ask the Governor November 25th

Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley will be the special guest on our next edition of Ask the Governor on Tuesday, November 25th. Governor Tom Corbett will return to the program for his final appearance on December 17th.

You can enter a question for either show by clicking the Ask the Governor link at the top of this page.

Radio PA Roundtable – June 7, 2013

On this week’s Radio PA Roundtable, the investigation into a deadly building collapse in Philadelphia may focus on the city’s licensing and inspections process. The Mayor and a city commissioner faced heated questions the day after the collapse this week. Also, tempers flared at a hearing on liquor privatization as the Lieutenant Governor and a state senator squared off and U-S Senator Pat Toomey takes a 10-year old girl’s fight for life to the Senate floor.

Radio PA Roundtable is a 30-minute program featuring in-depth reporting, commentary and analysis on the top news stories of the week.

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Chorus of Booze

Tempers flared at the third and final public hearing for the governor’s liquor privatization plan before the state Senate Law and Justice Committee in Harrisburg Tuesday. As union members lined the back wall of the hearing room, Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley and committee minority chair Jim Ferlo went at it.

Ferlo launched the first verbal assault, calling out the Secretary of Health, the Police Commissioner and a Deputy Secretary of Education for appearing with the Lieutenant Governor to promote a plan that would expand access to alcohol. Ferlo called their actions laughable and outrageous, while the union members in the room cheered him on.

Cawley fired back, however, seeming visibly angry at Ferlo’s attacks and saying the senator should be embarrassed for attacking three public servants as individuals rather than speaking to the issue at hand. Cawley was booed and jeered several times by the union members in the room.

The tense moments came toward the end of a long day of testimony that also included input from representatives of the beer and spirits industries, an economic analyst and union representatives.

Committee Chairman Charles McIlhinny will be the author of the Senate version of the privatization bill. He informed the Lieutenant Governor, a fellow Republican, that he was opposed to the administration’s plans to use the proceeds from the sale of the state stores to fund block grants for education, a plan critics say will do little to help in the classroom.

The state House passed its privatization bill in March, an amended version of the governor’s plan that takes out the public education aspect. That legislation has little chance in the Senate, but the two chambers may work together on a compromise plan before breaking for the summer.