As released by the Governor's Press Office.

Governor Wolf Sets Special Election for Pennsylvania's 2nd Congressional District

Harrisburg, PA – Governor Wolf today issued a Writ of Election setting a date of November 8, 2016 for a special election to fill Pennsylvania’s vacant 2nd Congressional District:

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH, THE COUNTY BOARDS OF ELECTION OF THE COUNTIES OF MONTGOMERY AND PHILADELPHIA, GREETINGS:

WHEREAS, in consequence of the June 23, 2016 resignation of former Representative Chaka Fattah, who was elected a Member of the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress of the United States for the Second Congressional District of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as said district is established by law, a vacancy exists in the representation of the Commonwealth in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Tom Wolf, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in pursuance of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and of Section 627 of the Act of the June 3, 1937 (P.L. 1333, No. 320), as amended, 25 P.S. § 2777, do issue this Writ of Election commanding you to do your respective duties according to law and to hold a special election in the said Second Congressional District of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016

for the election of a Representative in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States to fill the vacancy aforesaid. And you are hereby required and enjoined to give lawful notice of the cause and conduct of said special election, and make return thereof in the manner and form as by law directed and required.

GIVEN under my hand and the Great Seal of the Commonwealth, at the City of Harrisburg, this first day of July in the year of our Lord, two thousand and sixteen, and of our Commonwealth the two hundred and forty-first.

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Harrisburg City Council Legislative Session Tuesday July 5th 6:00 PM.

Harrisburg City Council shall consider the passage of Bill 4-2016 (As Amended) at the Legislative Session on Tuesday, July 5th at 6:00 PM, to be held in the City Council Chambers, Room 101 of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. City Government Center, 10 North Second Street, Harrisburg, PA.

Said Bill is created for the purpose of the following: Bill 4-2016 (As Amended) - An Ordinance amending Chapter 3-330 General Offenses, by adding Section 373 providing for the assessment of fines for the PERSONAL possession OR PERSONAL USE of small amounts of MARIJUANA AND THE POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA PARAPHERNALIA in the City of Harrisburg under certain conditions.

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Archive video March 2016.

Harrisburg city council held the first of two public meetings Thursday evening at HACC Midtown campus to discuss Bill 4-2016.

The meeting was moderated by Cornelius Johnson, chair of public safety committee.

Panel members.

Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico

Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse

Harrisburg Police Chief Tom Carter

Council President Wanda Williams

Council member Destini Hodges

Council member Westburn Majors

Brandon Flood, executive director of the Pennsylvania Black Caucus

Bill 4-2016: An Ordinance amending Chapter 3-330 General Offenses, by adding Section 373 providing for the assessment of a fine for the possession of small amounts of cannabis in the City of Harrisburg under certain terms and conditions.

Opening remarks.---

Questions from the audience.

The racial makeup of marijuana arrests

A minister against legalizing marijuana

Chris Siennick

Community service and medical marijuana

My name is Butts, Lewis Butts

The gateway drug is pharmaceutical

The qualities of Hemp

Closing statements

DA Ed Marsico

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Archive video February 8, 2016.

Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse held a press event Monday morning to announce a proposal to reduce the charge of marijuana possession from a misdemeanor to a summary offense for 30 grams or less.

Mayor Eric Papenfuse.

We are not pro marijuana. People make mistakes.

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