Last week on Tuesday my wife and I and a friend had the oppertunity to attend the Commonwealth Prayer Breakfast at the Camp Hill Radisson.  It was a really good breakfast. We ate with State Senator John Eichelberger and several men from The Lighthouse Mens Fellowship that I attend on Saturday mornings. State Representative Rick Geist and John each chipped in to get us all tickets for the breakfast.

It is completely funded by personal money not state money, and there are several Senators and Congress people who do this every year.

This was not my first time to go and hopefully it won’t be my last. 

After the breakfast, I spoke with Catheryn Baker Knoll our Luitenant Governer, and our Attorney General Tom Corbett.  We had some pictures taken as well and when I get them I will try to post them here.

We went down to the Capital building and had a tour with some Elementary kids who were very well behaved!  When we got to the Senate Gallery there was a sign posted with all the things you aren’t allowed to do in the Gallery. I have posted that picture here.

I guess the one I can’t understand is NO BALLOONS!  That one is weird!

Anyway, we went around to all the sights in the building and then we went to John E’s office and he had his assistant take us to the floor of the senate, and when you are down there, there is really something different about the room than when you are in the gallery. There is real history there. Pennsylvania laws have been made there, and yes even some things that they probably aren’t too proud of like the last pay raise scandal!

It makes you stop and think that really all these people are trying to do is make this state the best there is, and I believe if we keep thinking positivly we will be the best!

That is all for now, just wanted to post this picture and ask you the reader to make some comments about why we can’t have newspapers and magazines in the gallery, and why we can’t have balloons in the gallery and why more people don’t make a trip to our capital both state and federal and see what our lawmakers are doing with our money.

 Jack Servello May 12, 2008 10:26PM

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