To The Editor,
When an incumbent state representative has served three terms and seeks a fourth, voters have enough information to decide how well the candidate has been serving their interests.
How, then, is Warren Kampf performing in the PA General Assembly? Where does he stand—and vote—on issues that matter to us citizens in the 157th District? What and whom does he support? It’s hard to determine from his frequent newsletters, but a look at his voting record and ratings is more revealing.
Kampf gets a 25% rating from Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates. He has voted to make women’s access to reproductive healthcare more difficult.
Kampf gets a 33% rating from the Sierra Club. On the 2012 Marcellus Shale bill. Kampf voted to limit funding for environmental issues in favor of the gas drilling lobby.
The National Rifle Association rates him as voting their way 64% of the time.
Project Vote Smart, a nonpartisan, volunteer organization that collects information from elected officials about their positions on key issues, reports that Kampf “has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues… despite repeated requests.”
Kampf made the preposterous claim in 2012 that the Voter ID Law (aka voter suppression law) would “help voters.” The cost of this failed Republican-led legislation- not including the law’s defense in court – was at least $12 million.
Kampf voted for pension reform bills that would significantly weaken our already underfunded and underperforming pension fund.
Kampf voted NO- four times – on the 2013 transportation bill which provided much needed funding for road and bridge repair as well as public transit.
Kampf is the lead sponsor of H.B. 1993 which removes the rights of school districts to conduct appeals of under- assessed properties. It could lead to substantial losses in revenue for school districts. Large commercial properties stand to benefit while residential taxpayers will pay more in the form of increased millage. The PA School Board Association opposes it.
In short, Warren Kampf has voted for special business interests over the best interests of the people and families of the 157th. He opposes spending on infrastructure and supports reform that endangers the retirement security of all who pay into a state pension plan.
Warren Kampf is NOT watching out for us, in the 157th. Vote for Hans von Mol in November.
Margaret van Naerssen,
Tredyffrin
