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OUR TOWN CAMPAIGN FINANCE

Law experts
A special LNP series

put forward
ways to fix
the system
Federal, Philadelphia rules require
more specificity in record keeping
SAM JANESCH
SJANESCH@LNPNEWS.COM
BRAD BUMSTED
BBUMSTED@CAUCUSPA.COM
It’s time for an over-
haul to Pennsylvania’s
dated campaign fi-
nance laws.
That was the message
from some top Har-
risburg officials this
week after The Cau-
ANDY BLACKBURN, SUZETTE WENGER, BLAINE SHAHAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS cus and Spotlight PA
Though Landisville and Salunga were founded as separate towns, the two have merged through growth and de- published a yearlong
velopment. Now, most people in the area say they’re from Hempfield. The aerial shot above shows Main Street investigation into how
in Landisville looking west from just east of Church Street. lawmakers shielded
from public view $3.5
Senate Minority
Leader Jay Costa said
Friday he would intro-
duce a comprehensive
bill to tackle almost
every part of the law.
It would implement
contribution limits for
state and local candi-
dates, ban candidates
from using campaign
cash for personal use
and require more
transparency.
Senate President Pro
Tempore Joe Scarnati,
the Republican who

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million in sometimes had the most hidden

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CHAD UMBLE | CUMBLE@LNPNEWS.COM
lavish expenses by list- spending in the years
ituated along the his- ing them only as credit reviewed by report-
card payments or self- ers, said on Twitter he
toric King’s Highway, reimbursements. REFORMS, page A7
now Harrisburg Pike,
Salunga and Landis-
ville were early industrial

BECOME
centers in the middle of pros-
perous farmland. IN THIS SERIES
n Oct. 23: Pennsylvania state lawmakers are hiding

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A religious camp meeting as well as millions in campaign spending. And it’s all legal.
grain and coal mills, cigar factories, n The Legislature advances a measure that would
tobacco warehouses and a machine make it harder to get access to campaign spending
works thrived near the railroad stop records.
that opened in the 1830s halfway be- n Oct. 24: State senators’ mystery trip to
tween Lancaster city and Mount Joy. Europe with “donors” followed an expansion of
Less than a mile from one another, Pennsylvania’s wine law.
Salunga and Landisville developed n The Legislature abandons the measure that
a natural rivalry and separate town would make it easier to obscure campaign
Landisville and Salunga’s loyalties.
“The people who lived in Salunga
spending records.
n Oct. 25: She’s paid by taxpayers. So why is a
once-separate identities didn’t really like the people in Landis-
ville, and vice versa. It was a definite
top state Senate aide spending big on a campaign

merge into one community

credit card?
division,” says Millie Brubaker, who n Oct. 26: The 10 most extravagant or bizarre
LANDISVILLE/SALUNGA, page A10 expenses by state lawmakers’ campaigns.
n A state lawmaker proposes sweeping reforms to
campaign finance rules.

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n Places to visit:
Interesting sites include
the Amos Herr Park and
Homestead and Cooper
museum. Page A11
n “Our Town” is an occasional Sunday series that tells the stories of one Lancaster County town’s people,
businesses and community each edition.
n Things to do: Choose
from a picnic, festival, a
5K run, large community
yard sales and Camp
Meeting Week. Page A12
n Fun facts: A lead and
zinc mine, football team,
and speedway were
part of the area’s storied
past. Page A12
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