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Eugene DePasquale

Dear Governor Corbett: Pennsylvania State System Universities are Not Training Depots and Employment Offices for the Extraction Industry. Settle the APSCUF contract NOW.

January 27, 2013

I’m as deeply committed a union member/activist as they come. Standing shoulder to shoulder with something like 500 of my fellow APSCUF (Associated Pennsylvania College and University Faculty) members in the frigid cold for several hours in peaceful (though loud—at least me) protest of a contract proposal offered by the State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) whose transparent aims are the conversion of the 14 PASSHE universities into training depots, public relations centers, and employment offices for corporate America may be Governor Corbett’s dream, but it’s not mine. It’s also not any of my colleague’s dreams to convert from substance to mere shadow the quality of the educational opportunity they’re now able to offer their students. No such quality can be maintained under the working conditions the governor thinks good […]

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Eugene DePasquale Auditing Pennsylvania DEP

January 19, 2013

On January 15, 2013, former York County Representative Eugene DePasquale officially became Pennsylvania’s 51st Auditor General. DesPasquale’s campaign was of much interest to those involved in the issue of Natural Gas Drilling. A short bio: From 2003 to 2006, DePasquale served as Deputy Secretary for Community Revitalization and Local Government Support of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. In this role, DePasquale launched the Brownfield Action Team, which streamlines the process for cleaning up brownfields and claims to “lead the creation or retention of 45,000 jobs in 20 counties” From 2007 to 2012, he served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the York County-based 95th district. Regarding Act 13 – DePasquale voted No. Issue Position: Protecting the Environment Act 13, in combination with continued reductions in the budgets of […]

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