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Schneller for Congress Campaign responds to Prosecution of Meehan Petition Circulator



Thursday, February 3, 2011    3:30 PM (EST)
Contact : Candidate Jim Schneller | 610-688-9471 | info@Jim4US.com


    Jim Schneller, candidate for congress' 7th district-PA, in response to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's indictment of a Delaware County GOP operative for petition-related charges, notes:

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1)  the Attorney General should be investigating all 157 petition pages of the Meehan petition, as our campaign has been encouraging and continues to litigate in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 

2)  Mr. Meehan, knowing of these matters, had a duty to not proceed to office.  Likewise ex-governor Rendell had a duty to not certify the vote from the Seventh District, which he, by law, was supposed to refrain from.

3) Congress did not heed the Schneller request to hold off on seating Mr. Meehan despite the campaign's serving of a protest on each and every member of Congress, after the Christmas recess.  "  A copy of the demand to Congress follows:


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Friends of Jim Schneller for Congress Committee


January 3, 2011

Honorable Nancy Pelosi
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Honorable John Boehner
1011 Longworth Building
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Honorable Steny Hoyer
1705 Longworth House Office Building
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Honorable Eric Cantor
303 Cannon House Office Building 
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Mrs. Lorraine C. Miller
Clerk of the United States House of Representatives
U.S. Capitol, Room H154
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Sergeant-At-Arms
United States House of Representatives 
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Committee on Standards of Official Conduct 
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Office of Congressional Ethics
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House Republican Conference
& Hon. Jeb Hensarling, Chair
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& Hon. John B. Larson, Chair
202 A Cannon House Office Building
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Members of Congress &
Members-elect of the 112th U.S. Congress 
Washington, DC 



RE: Resolution Barring Seating Of Representative-Elect Patrick L. Meehan (PA7-R)



Dear Recipients and Most Honorable Members of Congress:


I am writing on behalf of this Committee, as it's Treasurer, as the candidate (PA7-I), as citizen, and on behalf of Pennsylvania and United States voters numbering I believe far in excess of those enumerated in election totals, for your urgent sponsoring or co-sponsoring, and passage, of a resolution or bill, refusing to seat, or excluding from seating, the purported elected for this, the seventh congressional district of Pennsylvania, Patrick L. Meehan.

I and all senders also write this to the Clerk and Sergeant at Arms, and request that this matter be presented to the full Congress at the earliest moment possible, by either of them where appropriate, and to all within their scope of dissemination. Likewise, these acts are requested by the said Committee and their ward the COE, and by both member caucuses.


We make this urgent request pursuant to Article I section 5 of the United States Constitution and all related law and state law, and the Rules, including Rule II.2. (a). We ask any appropriate consideration of this paper as a complaint pursuant to the Rules regarding matters of conduct of members of Congress and/or regarding a complaint pursuant to procedures required by all other pertinent Committees. I stand ready to present this case to the House on short notice. We request appointment of a committee or select committee, such as for investigation, and are able to cooperate in full and at length in all appropriate procedures.

The reason for enabling this serious request and enforcing the law is simple. Our action in mandamus requesting that the Pennsylvania Attorney General and Secretary of the Commonwealth investigate to the legally required or mandated conclusion, the nomination petition of Patrick L. Meehan, remains under appeal in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and, for abundant reason, stands as a hindrance, and likely block, to official recognition and designation by entities including the House, of Mr. Meehan as representative. The complaint, filed in August of 2010, at 707 MD 2010, asks action based on the allegations that will maintain the integrity of the election process including in this the United States House. A copy of the original complaint is attached. The dockets for the action and the appeal (61 MAL 2010) are readily viewable at the Pennsylvania Appellate Court docket web page at http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/Appellate.aspx 


The Governer's Office is believed to have issued a certificate of election as to this district. The Attorney General, at year's end, has not issued any decision, statement, or any other writing. The case is highly likely to result in de-certification, special election, related action, and warrants identical such action by the recipients. The appeal is clearly one of merit. Our application for injunction staying the Pennsylvania Governor's certification of election and/or transmittal pending review, was denied recently, as was our motion for expedited review, both of these denied in a one sentence order giving no indication of why stay, and the usual election track, were not granted. We have pled of record, open partiality and obstruction based on the fact that the defendant Attorney General is the Governor-elect., and is a member of the same party as Mr. Meehan. The executive branch defendants in their responses have noted that the sort of action requested here was a reason to not grant the requested injunction.

We have, last week, appealed the State Court denial of our action for a sample recanvassing, which was treated in so narrow a scope as to prevent even the summary dismissal, given the one count argued, to the other three or more counts, those thus shrouded somewhere within said summary dismissal. We claim a level of wrongfulness and illegality so pervasive, as to alert the House, at the very least, to the urgent need to bring about fairness and statutory intent, by preventing the higher irreversibility that will result from a swearing-in and/or granting of a seat. This action in fact remains, to this day, a statutory bar to certification of the seventh district results, to the Speaker, and if this was granted by the Pennsylvania Governor regardless, such is null and demands all the more your action on the within request.

Additionally, we claim that the actions of Mr. Meehan and his campaign, regardless, are worthy of your official action, and that a further relegating of them to some nebulous compartment will further disillusion the voters of the Seventh District, Pennsylvania, and the nation. Said district, and the state and region, have seen the election process reduced to a shadow of decency by the Meehan campaigns' acts, beginning with a legal challenge to this candidacy that was wrongly filed, without basis, and was purely a grab at a decisive slander. (645 MD 2010) To jump ahead, post election, the campaign has added yet another level of falseness and disregard for the legal process by filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, which, beyond the myriad of irrefutable defenses, is clearly based, by the Meehan camp's own admission, on failure to report a fee of $100.00 for notarization of candidate nomination papers, in the face of a reported disbursement that is clearly of that category, said complaint resounding with a tort asserted at length in 2010 by them, and dismissed by the Court originally presented with it (645 MD 2010), that Democrat operatives embellished this campaign's gathering of signatures, and which was, to the GOP's expertise, an inter-cooperation and legally wrong. F.E.C. Complaint No. MUR 6433, Answer Due January 20, 2011.


Therefore, we request immediate action as above stated, by all recipients, in all ways deemed relevant. Our Constitution is unmistakable in the thoroughness afforded to you in the sentence "the House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns, and Qualifications," in fact, each of those three aspects of adjudication provide avenues for the within request. It is only right, and it is undeniably directed by the Constitution, that you fulfill your duty to bring integrity of the election process, and all statutorily intended results, into being, and you wonderfully have now an open door to do so.




James D. "Jim" Schneller
Treasurer-Candidate 
610-688-9471
info@jim4us.com 



cc: General Counsel Irvin B. Nathan, Bryan R. Lentz, Chief Administrative Officer Dan Strodel, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Governor of Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, all recipients via email