Brendan F. Boyle
- Democrat
- 108 Ryan Office Building
PO Box 202170
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2170 - P: (717) 787-3055
- Boyle's Website
Representative, District 170
| 1 | Thomas Wolf | $45,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Sheila Walsh | $30,000 |
| 3 | Committee For A Better Tomorrow | $17,500 |
| 4 | Ironworkers Local 401 PAC | $17,000 |
| 5 | Sprinkler Fitters Local 692 PAC | $15,000 |
About Boyle's Top Donors
Thomas Wolf
Thomas Wolf
Sheila Walsh
Sheila Walsh
Committee For A Better Tomorrow
The Committee For A Better Tomorrow is the PAC for the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. After learning that this PAC had given $1 million to State Supreme Court candidate Jack Panella (D) for his 2009 campaign, Panella’s opponent, Republican Jane Orie Melvin, criticized Panella for engaging in “pay to play” politics. In a 10/27/09 interview with WHYY radio, Orie Melvin also said that justices should recuse themselves from cases involving major campaign contributors. Yet Orie Melvin received at least $125,000 from the Committee For A Better Tomorrow for her own campaign. One way for Pennsylvania to get its judges out of the business of ruling on cases involving campaign contributors would be to establish a system of merit selection. It’s bad enough that major campaign contributors enjoy special access to members of our state legislature. But what recourse does the average citizen who can’t afford to write four- and five-figure checks to political candidates have if their legislature and judiciary are both beholden to their top contributors? For example, a 2009 study by Common Cause/Pennsylvania found that 3 of the top 21 recipients of campaign contributions from casinos from 2001-2008 were state supreme court justices.
Ironworkers Local 401 PAC
According to its website, Ironworkers Local 401’s members are “trained in skills such as the erection of structural steel, miscellaneous steel, metal curtainwall and windowall systems, precast concrete structures, fences, towers, pre-engineered metal buildings, and other steel structures.” Local 401 members have played a prominent role in the construction of the Philadelphia Convention Center, Comcast Center, and the city’s sports stadiums, among other projects. In 2009, Ironworkers joined other unions in helping to convince the Delaware County Council to spend $28.6 million towards the construction of a $115 million soccer stadium in Chester. From 2001-2008, Local 401 gave more than $450,000 to candidates in Pennsylvania.
Sprinkler Fitters Local 692 PAC
http://www.sprinklerfitters692.org/