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Pennsylvania’s minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. Donna Scheuren has voted against three bills that would have raised it:

• HB 1500 — June 20, 2023
• HB 1549 — June 11, 2025
• HB 2189 — March 24, 2026

She voted NO on final passage each time.

All three passed the House despite her opposition, but none became law. The Senate has not approved these increases.

Meanwhile, New Jersey’s standard minimum wage is $15.92, Delaware and Maryland are at $15, and Ohio is at $11. Some workers and smaller employers have different rates.

At Pennsylvania’s minimum wage, 40 hours a week, every week of the year, comes to $15,080 before taxes.

How far would that go toward your bills? When Donna says she supports working families, ask her why she voted against these increases three times.

Not sure why Donna Scheuren and Tracy Pennycuick aren’t sharing this type of information. Do you? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Thank Katie Muth! She fights for our rights!!

Pennsylvania families need real solutions to rising housing costs—not a state representative manufacturing threats, spreading fear and using our tax dollars to do it.

Donna claims the Housing Action Plan threatens farmland and open space. It doesn’t. The plan focuses on rehabilitating blighted properties, converting unused buildings, developing vacant lots and preserving existing homes.

The 432 acres of farmland Donna mentions are not targeted for development anywhere in the plan. She created that frightening scenario herself.

Donna should be working to lower costs—not misleading the people she represents.

🗳️ 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐒.

🚨 U𝗌𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗉𝗎𝖻𝗅𝗂𝖼 𝗉𝗎𝗋𝗌𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝖺𝗍𝗍𝖺𝖼𝗄 𝗁𝖾𝗋 𝗉𝗈𝗅𝗂𝗍𝗂𝖼𝖺𝗅 𝗈𝗉𝗉𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗌

Donna Scheuren’s September newsletter bears her official legislative-office information and a Harrisburg postage permit—but it reads like a campaign attack paid for by the people she represents.

She accuses “Democrat leaders” of playing politics, calls their actions “ridiculous and unconscionable,” and dismisses criticism of Republicans as “disingenuous.”

This isn’t a neutral update about what is happening in Harrisburg. It is partisan political messaging delivered under the seal and resources of her taxpayer-funded office.

Donna apparently has no problem making taxpayers finance her attacks on Democrats while she builds her reelection narrative.

If she wants to send campaign propaganda, her campaign should pay for it—not Pennsylvania taxpayers.

In July 2024, Donna Scheuren voted YES on Senate Bill 654—the state Tax Code legislation that included changes benefiting Pennsylvania’s Computer Data Center Equipment Incentive Program and its sales-tax exemption. The official House record lists Scheuren among the 129 “yes” votes.

That exemption allows qualifying data-center developers to avoid Pennsylvania’s 6% sales tax on equipment and certain construction costs. The Shapiro administration now estimates the exemption could cost Pennsylvania more than $2 billion in lost revenue by mid-2031.

Then, after communities began fighting back and the staggering cost became public, Donna joined the nearly unanimous 2026 vote to repeal the exemption.

So yes, Donna eventually voted to close the door—but only after helping keep it open.

Now she wants voters to believe she is protecting us from data centers. Her record tells a different story.

Campaign promises fade. The record is permanent.

Before Donna Scheuren went to Harrisburg, she spent 12 years on the Souderton Area School Board. So her record there matters.

During her years on the Board, Souderton went from posting multi-million-dollar surpluses to running repeated deficits. Property taxes climbed, reserves were used, and the financial problems didn't disappear when Donna left the Board in 2023.

Today, Souderton taxpayers are still dealing with the consequences — and Moody’s downgraded the district’s long-term credit rating from A1 to A2 in December 2025.

Donna Scheuren is running again to represent PA House District 147.

Before voters decide whether to send her back to Harrisburg, they deserve to look at the record she left behind at home.

Campaign promises fade. The record is permanent.

Yet another thing Donna Scheuren doesn’t support: books for children. But weapons? Apparently those are just fine. At this rate, maybe she’d vote for guns for kids.

There was another medical emergency at the Souderton high school. Another ambulance delayed. Another warning district leadership will likely ignore.

Today, an ambulance reportedly took 16 minutes to reach a parent at a soccer game. Dispatch specifically said not to use Halteman Road and to enter from Lower Road. The ambulance still went to Halteman—and found the gate closed.

Almost a year ago, a student with a broken femur lay on the football field waiting for medical help. The district knew emergency access was a problem then. They know it now.

Taxpayers were forced to pay for yet another traffic study. The study said OPEN THE GATE. Ken Keith, Bill Brong and their obedient rubber stamps decided their egos mattered more than the findings—and apparently more than student safety.

We hoped Chris Hey might bring leadership and common sense to this district. Instead, he has allowed the same reckless stupidity to continue.

No ambulance stationed at sporting events. A locked emergency-access gate. Confused responders. Sixteen minutes while a spectator is experiencing a medical emergency.

This is no longer ignorance. It is a conscious decision to ignore a known danger.

If tragedy strikes, no one gets to say they didn’t know. The warnings are documented. The study is complete. The gate is still closed.

Open the damn gate before your arrogance costs a student their life.

FOLLOW YOUR MONEY.

Donna Scheuren and Tracy Pennycuick support Trump’s immigration crackdown. But who’s paying for it?

YOU ARE. WE ARE.

PA’s Moshannon detention center is operated by private prison giant GEO Group, reportedly collecting more than $5.3 MILLION A MONTH in taxpayer money.

One detainee was moved:

PA → Texas → Louisiana → back to PA.

We paid to detain him. We paid to move him. We paid to bring him back.

And here’s the kicker: GEO has poured money into Trump-aligned political efforts, including $500,000 toward Trump’s inauguration. A former GEO executive then joined the Trump administration to help oversee the expansion of immigration detention.

Now private detention companies are cashing in on that expansion — with OUR tax dollars.

Donna and Tracy want to champion Trump’s immigration policies?

Then they should explain where our money is going, who’s profiting, and why.

Your money. Our money. Their profits.

Tracy Pennycuick co-sponsored SB 939, legislation that would have helped fast-track data centers and allowed them to bypass certain local regulations.

Then, when data centers became wildly unpopular, she helped remove the language — and her campaign spent $7,000–$8,000 on Facebook ads bragging that she stopped it.

She’s literally campaigning against her own bill.

And while her party is spending money trying to convince voters that Chris Thomas is somehow the “data center candidate,” the record tells a very different story.

This is exactly why we look at voting records instead of campaign ads.

The record is permanent. (Keystone Newsroom)

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EG2zN6kPq/?mibextid=wwXIfr

She voted AGAINST HB 1018, which would allow families or police to ask a judge to temporarily remove firearms from someone proven to be a serious danger to themselves or others.

A court order. Evidence. A hearing. A temporary restriction.

Donna still voted no.

In 2023 alone, more than 1,000 Pennsylvanians died by firearm suicide. Another 119 people lost their lives to domestic violence—and 77% were killed with a firearm. Tens of thousands more victims and children live with the fear and trauma of abuse every year.

When the warning signs are there and lives are at risk, Donna’s answer is apparently: protect access to the gun.

Because Donna loves guns—even when the human cost is staring her in the face.
Read HB 1018 https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2023/hb1018

They are running an ad claiming Chris Thomas’s “real bosses are data-center developers.”

But Gilmore & Associates identifies itself as an engineering and municipal-consulting firm—not a data-center developer. Thomas apparently disclosed consulting work for Gilmore, but that does not prove he worked on data centers or profited from their development.

So, show us:

➡️ What data centers has Gilmore developed?
➡️ What data-center work did Thomas perform?
➡️ Which “Gilmore bosses” funded his campaign—and how much did they contribute?

This looks like the same fearmongering and gaslighting we have seen before. They made the accusation. Now produce the receipts.

Campaign promises fade. THE RECORD IS PERMANENT.

Did you know that Pennsylvania taxpayers invest an estimated $600,000 to $900,000+ every year to support a single State Representative's office?

That includes salary, benefits, legislative staff, district office(s), equipment, travel, printing, postage, and other operating expenses.

That's a significant investment of taxpayer dollars.

So here's the question:

What results, accomplishments, or services should taxpayers reasonably expect in return for that investment? Have you seen any return on your investment?