ALL OUT TO HARRISBURG: GIFT BAN ACTION

Start: Tuesday, January 07, 2025•10:30 AM

End: Tuesday, January 07, 2025•12:00 PM

Location:Harrisburg State Capitol Building•501 N 3rd St, Harrisburg, PA 17120 US

Host Contact Info: info@mohpa.org

ALL OUT TO HARRISBURG:

GIFT BAN ACTION

Date: Tuesday, January 7th

Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Location: Pennsylvania State Capitol Building, Harrisburg, PA

Meet up point: 9:30AM, Location TBD

We’re coming back to Harrisburg on the legislature's first day back to hold our elected leaders accountable and demand they pass the Gift Ban and Make Bribery Illegal this session!

Join us at the State Capitol steps on Tuesday, January 7th where we’ll be sending a clear message to House and Senate leaders: Pass the Gift Ban, or Get Out! We’ll be bringing huge billboards to make sure our demand to make bribery illegal is impossible to ignore. The time for billionaires and huge corporations buying our legislators is over. It’s time to clean up politics and put an end to the corrupting influence of gifts and perks.

This is a critical moment in the fight to make bribery illegal and we need you there to make our voices heard. Together, we will pass the Gift Ban send a message to Harrisburg that Pennsylvanians will not stand for corrupt business as usual. Mark your calendar and be there! Bring your family, friends, and comrades!

Signs will be provided. Please dress warmly! RSVP for more info!

History of the Gift Ban:

For the past seven years, we've been fighting hard to make bribery illegal and pass a commonsense Gift Ban in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is one of only three states that has zero limits on gifts that lobbyists and billionaires can give lawmakers - things includes everything from all-paid vacations to Europe, box seats at Penn State games, wining and dining, and more. We’ve passed the Gift Ban out of the House State Government Committee twice, in 2019 and in 2021, and this is the year it fully passes!

We do not accept the tired excuse that there is never enough time to do the right thing, especially when our legislators use session days to win the favor of big-money interests. For example, in the last session week of September in 2024, PA legislators passed 12 bills and held 49 campaign fundraisers.

We fully expect this legislature to prioritize passing the Gift Ban this year and stop doing the bidding of billionaires and corporations; we will keep pushing this legislature until they outlaw their own corruption.

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