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�������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������The Daily News The Daily News A6 The Daily News, Friday, April 6, 20 12 Bill Romney Dog Foundation Continued from Page A1 a measure that would elimi- nate school property taxes and replace them with other streams of revenue. That bill has not been assigned to a committee. State Sen. Wayne Fontana, D-Brookline, has sponsored a similar piece of legislation, but Senate Bill 1562 would focus on Allegheny County and enable County Council to abolish the property tax in favor of other options such as earned income or net profits taxes. SB 1562 also has not been referred to a committee. Saccone also is a lead- ing co-sponsor of House Bill 2300, which was approved Monday by the House Finance Committee. It would amend the state constitution to exclude all principal places of residence from the property tax. Its principal sponsor is Rep. David M. Maloney Sr., R-Boyertown. Area co-sponsors of HB 2300 include Evankovich and Rep. George Dunbar, R- Penn Township. Continued from Page A1 Ron Paul of Texas and 6 percent, for- mer House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Conducted on Wednesday, the poll of 403 likely voters has an error margin of 4.9 percentage points. But a telephone survey taken by Rasmussen Reports on the same day found Santorum leading Romney, 42 percent to 38 percent. That survey of 750 likely Republican primary voters has a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percent. Romney acknowledged that most candidates expect to win their home states, including Santorum, who moved from Penn Hills to Virginia after his 2006 loss to Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton. Santorum yesterday took a four-day break for the Easter holi- day, and his campaign said he would resume campaigning next week. Among Romney’s stops was a visit to natural gas production com- pany Mountain Energy Services in Tunkhannock. “I have great respect for the work ethic, patriotism, the creativity and the determination of the people of this state,” Romney told the Trib. “I also understand the difficult times they have been through and that they want change, not just flowing rhetoric.” He said he is confident voters will choose him over President Obama this fall because Obama “has not delivered on his promises. His presidency has failed.” Obama has made America “a more government-centered society,” Romney said. Though Obama easily won the Keystone State in 2008, Romney said he thinks the president does not understand its people and has not attempted to know them. “If he did, he would understand the determination to succeed here,” Romney said. “... Pennsylvanians have weathered turbulent economic times, and the state has emerged as one of the leading industrial and technologi- cal states in the country.” The last Republican to win Pennsylvania in a general election was George H.W. Bush in 1988. Since Obama’s win, Republicans won state- wide judicial races in 2009 and 2010, five U.S. House seats, Toomey’s Senate seat and the governor’s mansion. The party now holds majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. To carry Pennsylvania, Romney needs to appeal to blue-collar, Roman Catholic and rural white voters and to keep white-collar and independent voters in Philadelphia’s suburbs from choosing Obama, said Curt Nichols, a political science professor at Baylor University. That’s tricky, he said, because these constituents don’t share values or views on issues. Trying to juggle such constituencies can make Romney appear awkward or disconnected, but Blair County Sheriff Mitch Cooper said he thinks that image is overblown. “I am a Romney guy,” said Cooper. “I spent 30 years as a police officer, and I have no problem connecting with him.” Cooper said he tires of hearing how bad things are and wants Romney to talk about “the exceptional things everyday people accomplish, and how he will take us to a better America together.” Romney could do that in Pennsylvania by becoming “a fighter for energy opportunities,” said Nichols. At the Wyoming County gas com- pany, Romney criticized proposed cli- mate regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency. “It is bad economics, plus it risks our energy security,” he said. “(Obama) has been an anti-energy president, refusing to use our natural resources that are bountiful in Pennsylvania. And it’s not just the shale gas and coal companies that could benefit the state with jobs but all of the other industries that supply or serve them.” Democrats who are disenchanted with Obama, such as John Walden of Mechanicsburg, could help Romney this fall. “Yeah, I am disappointed,” said Walden, a businessman who voted for Obama in 2008 but might not bother to vote this year. “I’ve gotten to the point where I am fed up with all of them.” Minorities and young people who also pulled away from Obama could help Romney close the margin, said Kevan Yenerall, a Clarion University political science professor. “This race is shaping up to be very close in Pennsylvania,” Yenerall said. Continued from Page A1 “I teach that dogs should never be left unattended with infants or small chil- dren,” Crosby said. “Do I recommend leaving this or any other dog unattended with an infant on the floor? No.” Common Pleas Judge Edward J. Borkowski con- tinued the hearing until April 27. The 19-month- old animal remains in a kennel. William Uhring, who adopted the dog and renamed it Helo, was in court but declined to com- ment. The baby’s mother, Brandy Furlong, 21, told police that she placed her son in a baby seat on the liv- ing room floor and left the room. She heard scream- ing and returned to find the infant bloodied, and the husky near it. The child died about 90 minutes later. Uhring paid kennel costs for the husky and a pit bull that police also seized. He returned the pit bull to Furlong and her boyfriend, Howard Nicholson. Allegheny County police charged Furlong last month with violating the state’s dangerous dog laws, a mis- demeanor. Continued from Page A1 Joey’s family and friends will participate in the 13th annual Walk Now for Autism Speaks June 9 under the JOFAA banner, and the foundation is planning its first official event later in the summer with its inaugural motorcycle run July 21. Joe Osinski said the fami- ly’s foundation is not intend- ed to counter the efforts of Autism Speaks, but rather to assist local families with the same autism-related services that have been helpful to them. “That money being out there on the national level is fantastic. In the long run, the result of national research projects will be beneficial to every family faced with autism,” he said. “But there are families who need help today. We are trying to reach out and help families in the here and now.” Families dealing with autism need assistance with everything from develop- mental tools and education- al support systems to rec- reation opportunities, Joe Osinski explained. “There are a number of local agencies that provide these resources, and they are struggling to stay in service for the families that need them,” he said. Proceeds of JOFAA’s inaugural motorcycle run — a 60-mile trip with lim- ited stops that will close with a family-friendly picnic at the Marina at McKees Point — will benefit the Autism Center of Pittsburgh, K9s for Kids and St. Anthony School Programs. In October, Joey was awarded a K9s for Kids puppy through the Autism Center of Pittsburgh in a grant program funded by Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala’s office. Casey, a 7-month-old German shep- herd, is training to be an autism service dog and com- panion for Joey. Joey has been enrolled in St. Anthony School Programs since his diagno- sis and entrance into the elementary education sys- tem. Now a freshman at Serra Catholic High School, he is in the secondary pro- gram, and he is on track for post-secondary studies at Duquesne University. Lisa Hendrickson, St. Anthony high school direc- tor, said it’s important for special needs students to have a typical high school Jennifer R. Vertullo | Daily News Joey Osinski holds an Autism Awareness ribbon craft- ed by his grandmother Andrea Osinski. Jennifer R. Vertullo | Daily News Joey-O Foundation for Autism Awareness president Joe Osinski, right, visits his son Joey at Serra Catholic High School to see students and faculty wearing Autism Awareness ribbons. From left are freshman Jasmyne Small, freshman Jake Keane, teacher Kathy Osiecki, Joey and sophomore Matthew Baccile. experience — to be welcome to take part in extra-cur- ricular activities and attend school events. “What we’re trying to teach our students is to be as independent as possible,” Hendrickson said. “We want the school community to see our students for their abilities, not their disabili- ties. We want other students to accept diversity and have tolerance for differences.” Of St. Anthony School Programs’ combined enroll- ment, approximately one- third of students are diag- nosed with autism, one- third have down syndrome and one-third have varied disabilities. With autism, Hendrickson said a student’s natural def- icits are socialization and communication. Joey’s grandmother Andrea Osinski credits St. Anthony School Programs for meeting her grandson’s classroom needs and for eas- ing his social anxiety. She said the organization’s focus on integrating students has helped the movement for autism awareness. “Joey’s going to be 16, and when he was in kin- dergarten, nobody under- stood him,” Andrea Osinski said. “Nobody understood autism, and now they do.” A retired mental health nurse, Andrea Osinski said knowledge and support are powerful tools as a school or social community rallies around an individual with special needs. She crafted autism aware- ness ribbons for Serra stu- dents and faculty to wear throughout the month of April. “I think having the rib- bons helps with autism awareness,” she said. “People will ask what you’re wearing and what its for. Even if they learn the word autism, it helps. It helps people to know there is something out there like that.” Hendrickson praised the Osinski family for being involved in the autism aware- ness movement. “It’s helping to break down barriers,” she said. “They’ve been so grateful for everything people have done for them. They’re paying it forward. They’re great activists and propo- nents in getting the word out there.” For more information on the Joey-O Foundation for Autism Awareness, go to www.joey-o.org or g g www.face- book.com/jofaa.org. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is laying groundwork to make the majority-conservative Supreme Court a campaign issue this fall, taking a politi- cal page from Republicans who have long railed against liberal judges who don’t vote their way. The emerging Democratic strategy to paint the court as extreme was little noted in this week’s hubbub over Obama’s assertion that over- turning his health care law would be “unprecedented.” His statement Monday wasn’t completely accurate, and the White House back- tracked. But Obama was making a political case, not a legal one, and he appears ready to keep making it if the high court’s five-mem- ber majority strikes down or cuts the heart out of his signature policy initiative. The court also is likely to consider several other issues before the November elec- tion that could stir Obama’s core Democratic supporters and draw crucial indepen- dent voters as well. Among those are immigration, vot- ing rights and a revisit of a campaign finance ruling that Obama has already crit- icized as an outrage. “We haven’t seen the end of this,” said longtime Supreme Court practitio- ner Tom Goldstein, who teaches at Stanford and Harvard universities. “The administration seems to be positioning itself to be able to run against the Supreme Court if it needs to or wants to.” While Obama has pre- dicted victory in the health care case now before the court, his administration could blame overreach by Republican-appointed jus- tices if the law is rejected, said Goldstein, who wrote a brief supporting the law’s constitutionality. This can be dangerous ground, as Obama discov- ered. Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, few presidents have directly assailed the Supreme Court. In Obama’s case, he issued an indirect challenge, but the former constitutional law professor tripped over the details. Obama told a news con- ference on Monday that he was “confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprec- edented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” The Supreme Court does sometimes overturn laws passed by Congress. Obama later clarified that he was referring to a narrow class of constitutional law, but even then Republicans and some court scholars took issue. What’s not in question is that the law wasn’t approved by a strong, majority — the vote was a slim 219 to 212 in the House. A Republican-appointed federal judge took umbrage at the suggestion that fed- eral courts might be power- less to overturn such laws, and ordered the Justice Department to provide written assurance. Attorney General Eric Holder took on that task himself, telling the judge Thursday that “the long- standing, historical posi- tion of the United States regarding judicial review of the constitutionality of federal legislation has not changed.” He also took the oppor- tunity to cite Supreme Court case law supporting the premise that laws passed by Congress are “presump- tively constitutional.” The Supreme Court heard a rare three days of argument on the 2010 health care overhaul last week, and the court’s con- servative majority appeared deeply skeptical of the key provision, a requirement for individual health insur- ance. Justice Antonin Scalia, for one, appeared strongly in favor of striking down the entire law. A decision is expected by July. Obama setting up Supreme Court as a campaign issue

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Continued from Page A1a measure that would elimi-nate school property taxes and replace them with other streams of revenue. That bill has not been assigned to a committee.

State Sen. Wayne Fontana, D-Brookline, has sponsored a similar piece of legislation, but Senate Bill 1562 would focus on Allegheny County and enable County Council to abolish the property tax in favor of other options such as earned income or net profits taxes.

SB 1562 also has not been

referred to a committee.Saccone also is a lead-

ing co-sponsor of House Bill 2300, which was approved Monday by the House Finance Committee. It would amend the state constitution to exclude all principal places of residence from the property tax.

Its principal sponsor is Rep. David M. Maloney Sr., R-Boyertown. Area co-sponsors of HB 2300 include Evankovich and Rep. George Dunbar, R-Penn Township.

Continued from Page A1Ron Paul of Texas and 6 percent, for-mer House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Conducted on Wednesday, the poll of 403 likely voters has an error margin of 4.9 percentage points.

But a telephone survey taken by Rasmussen Reports on the same day found Santorum leading Romney, 42 percent to 38 percent. That survey of 750 likely Republican primary voters has a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percent.

Romney acknowledged that most candidates expect to win their home states, including Santorum, who moved from Penn Hills to Virginia after his 2006 loss to Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton. Santorum yesterday took a four-day break for the Easter holi-day, and his campaign said he would resume campaigning next week.

Among Romney’s stops was a visit to natural gas production com-pany Mountain Energy Services in Tunkhannock.

“I have great respect for the work ethic, patriotism, the creativity and the determination of the people of this state,” Romney told the Trib. “I also understand the difficult times they have been through and that they want change, not just flowing rhetoric.”

He said he is confident voters will choose him over President Obama this fall because Obama “has not delivered on his promises. His presidency has failed.” Obama has made America “a more government-centered society,” Romney said.

Though Obama easily won the Keystone State in 2008, Romney said he thinks the president does not understand its people and has not attempted to know them.

“If he did, he would understand the determination to succeed here,” Romney said. “... Pennsylvanians have weathered turbulent economic times, and the state has emerged as one of the leading industrial and technologi-cal states in the country.”

The last Republican to win Pennsylvania in a general election was George H.W. Bush in 1988. Since Obama’s win, Republicans won state-wide judicial races in 2009 and 2010, five U.S. House seats, Toomey’s Senate seat and the governor’s mansion. The party now holds majorities in both chambers of the state legislature.

To carry Pennsylvania, Romney needs to appeal to blue-collar, Roman Catholic and rural white voters and to keep white-collar and independent voters in Philadelphia’s suburbs from choosing Obama, said Curt Nichols, a political science professor at Baylor University. That’s tricky, he said, because these constituents don’t share values or views on issues.

Trying to juggle such constituencies can make Romney appear awkward or disconnected, but Blair County Sheriff Mitch Cooper said he thinks that image is overblown.

“I am a Romney guy,” said Cooper. “I spent 30 years as a police officer, and I have no problem connecting with him.”

Cooper said he tires of hearing how bad things are and wants Romney to talk about “the exceptional things everyday people accomplish, and how he will take us to a better America together.”

Romney could do that in Pennsylvania by becoming “a fighter for energy opportunities,” said Nichols.

At the Wyoming County gas com-pany, Romney criticized proposed cli-mate regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency.

“It is bad economics, plus it risks our energy security,” he said. “(Obama) has been an anti-energy president, refusing to use our natural resources that are bountiful in Pennsylvania. And it’s not just the shale gas and coal companies that could benefit the state with jobs but all of the other industries that supply or serve them.”

Democrats who are disenchanted with Obama, such as John Walden of Mechanicsburg, could help Romney this fall.

“Yeah, I am disappointed,” said Walden, a businessman who voted for Obama in 2008 but might not bother to vote this year. “I’ve gotten to the point where I am fed up with all of them.”

Minorities and young people who also pulled away from Obama could help Romney close the margin, said Kevan Yenerall, a Clarion University political science professor.

“This race is shaping up to be very close in Pennsylvania,” Yenerall said.

Continued from Page A1“I teach that dogs should

never be left unattended with infants or small chil-dren,” Crosby said. “Do I recommend leaving this or any other dog unattended with an infant on the floor? No.”

Common Pleas Judge Edward J. Borkowski con-tinued the hearing until April 27. The 19-month-old animal remains in a kennel. William Uhring, who adopted the dog and renamed it Helo, was in court but declined to com-ment.

The baby’s mother,

Brandy Furlong, 21, told police that she placed her son in a baby seat on the liv-ing room floor and left the room. She heard scream-ing and returned to find the infant bloodied, and the husky near it. The child died about 90 minutes later.

Uhring paid kennel costs for the husky and a pit bull that police also seized. He returned the pit bull to Furlong and her boyfriend, Howard Nicholson.

Allegheny County police charged Furlong last month with violating the state’s dangerous dog laws, a mis-demeanor.

Continued from Page A1Joey’s family and friends

will participate in the 13th annual Walk Now for Autism Speaks June 9 under the JOFAA banner, and the foundation is planning its first official event later in the summer with its inaugural motorcycle run July 21.

Joe Osinski said the fami-ly’s foundation is not intend-ed to counter the efforts of Autism Speaks, but rather to assist local families with the same autism-related services that have been helpful to them.

“That money being out there on the national level is fantastic. In the long run, the result of national research projects will be beneficial to every family faced with autism,” he said. “But there are families who need help today. We are trying to reach out and help families in the here and now.”

Families dealing with autism need assistance with everything from develop-mental tools and education-al support systems to rec-reation opportunities, Joe Osinski explained.

“There are a number of local agencies that provide these resources, and they are struggling to stay in service for the families that need them,” he said.

Proceeds of JOFAA’s inaugural motorcycle run — a 60-mile trip with lim-ited stops that will close with a family-friendly picnic at the Marina at McKees Point — will benefit the Autism Center of Pittsburgh, K9s for Kids and St. Anthony School Programs.

In October, Joey was awarded a K9s for Kids puppy through the Autism Center of Pittsburgh in a grant program funded by Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala’s office. Casey, a 7-month-old German shep-herd, is training to be an autism service dog and com-panion for Joey.

Joey has been enrolled in St. Anthony School Programs since his diagno-sis and entrance into the elementary education sys-tem. Now a freshman at Serra Catholic High School, he is in the secondary pro-gram, and he is on track for post-secondary studies at Duquesne University.

Lisa Hendrickson, St. Anthony high school direc-tor, said it’s important for special needs students to have a typical high school

Jennifer R. Vertullo | Daily NewsJoey Osinski holds an Autism Awareness ribbon craft-

ed by his grandmother Andrea Osinski.ed by his grandmother Andrea Osinski.

Jennifer R. Vertullo | Daily NewsJoey-O Foundation for Autism Awareness president Joe Osinski, right, visits his

son Joey at Serra Catholic High School to see students and faculty wearing Autism Awareness ribbons. From left are freshman Jasmyne Small, freshman Jake Keane, teacher Kathy Osiecki, Joey and sophomore Matthew Baccile.teacher Kathy Osiecki, Joey and sophomore Matthew Baccile.

experience — to be welcome to take part in extra-cur-ricular activities and attend school events.

“What we’re trying to teach our students is to be as independent as possible,” Hendrickson said. “We want the school community to see our students for their abilities, not their disabili-ties. We want other students to accept diversity and have tolerance for differences.”

Of St. Anthony School Programs’ combined enroll-ment, approximately one-

third of students are diag-nosed with autism, one-third have down syndrome and one-third have varied disabilities.

With autism, Hendrickson said a student’s natural def-icits are socialization and communication.

Joey’s grandmother Andrea Osinski credits St. Anthony School Programs for meeting her grandson’s classroom needs and for eas-ing his social anxiety. She said the organization’s focus on integrating students has

helped the movement for autism awareness.

“Joey’s going to be 16, and when he was in kin-dergarten, nobody under-stood him,” Andrea Osinski said. “Nobody understood autism, and now they do.”

A retired mental health nurse, Andrea Osinski said knowledge and support are powerful tools as a school or social community rallies around an individual with special needs.

She crafted autism aware-ness ribbons for Serra stu-dents and faculty to wear throughout the month of April.

“I think having the rib-bons helps with autism awareness,” she said. “People will ask what you’re wearing and what its for. Even if they learn the word autism, it helps. It helps people to know there is something out there like that.”

Hendrickson praised the Osinski family for being involved in the autism aware-ness movement.

“It’s helping to break down barriers,” she said. “They’ve been so grateful for everything people have done for them. They’re paying it forward. They’re great activists and propo-nents in getting the word out there.”

For more information on the Joey-O Foundation for Autism Awareness, go to www.joey-o.org or www.joey-o.org or www.joey-o.org www.face-book.com/jofaa.org.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is laying groundwork to make the majority-conservative Supreme Court a campaign issue this fall, taking a politi-cal page from Republicans who have long railed against liberal judges who don’t vote their way.

The emerging Democratic strategy to paint the court as extreme was little noted in this week’s hubbub over Obama’s assertion that over-turning his health care law would be “unprecedented.”

His statement Monday wasn’t completely accurate, and the White House back-tracked. But Obama was making a political case, not a legal one, and he appears ready to keep making it if the high court’s five-mem-ber majority strikes down or cuts the heart out of his signature policy initiative.

The court also is likely to consider several other issues before the November elec-tion that could stir Obama’s core Democratic supporters and draw crucial indepen-dent voters as well. Among those are immigration, vot-ing rights and a revisit of a campaign finance ruling that Obama has already crit-icized as an outrage.

“We haven’t seen the end of this,” said longtime Supreme Court practitio-ner Tom Goldstein, who teaches at Stanford and Harvard universities. “The administration seems to be positioning itself to be able to run against the Supreme Court if it needs to or wants to.”

While Obama has pre-dicted victory in the health care case now before the court, his administration could blame overreach by Republican-appointed jus-tices if the law is rejected, said Goldstein, who wrote a brief supporting the law’s constitutionality.

This can be dangerous ground, as Obama discov-ered. Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, few presidents have directly assailed the

Supreme Court. In Obama’s case, he issued an indirect challenge, but the former constitutional law professor tripped over the details.

Obama told a news con-ference on Monday that he was “confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprec-edented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”

The Supreme Court does sometimes overturn laws passed by Congress. Obama later clarified that he was referring to a narrow class of constitutional law, but even then Republicans and some court scholars took issue. What’s not in question is that the law wasn’t approved by a strong, majority — the vote was a slim 219 to 212 in the House.

A Republican-appointed federal judge took umbrage at the suggestion that fed-eral courts might be power-less to overturn such laws, and ordered the Justice Department to provide written assurance.

Attorney General Eric Holder took on that task himself, telling the judge Thursday that “the long-standing, historical posi-tion of the United States regarding judicial review of the constitutionality of federal legislation has not changed.”

He also took the oppor-tunity to cite Supreme Court case law supporting the premise that laws passed by Congress are “presump-tively constitutional.”

The Supreme Court heard a rare three days of argument on the 2010 health care overhaul last week, and the court’s con-servative majority appeared deeply skeptical of the key provision, a requirement for individual health insur-ance. Justice Antonin Scalia, for one, appeared strongly in favor of striking down the entire law. A decision is expected by July.

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