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From:	FH
To:	Senator Dinniman
Date:	Friday, 06/20/08
Subject:	URGENT I need your help

Dear Senator Dinnaman,
I am reaching out to you and for the first time in my life
asking for government help.

The short version is this
1. I was fired from my job without cause
2. I was awarded unemployment accordingly
3. The company I worked for appealed
4. I lost the appeal and my unemployment compensation was cut
off
5. I appealed to the board of review
Appeal number 08-09-d-1397
6. The board indeed ruled I was terminated - however they also
ruled it was for willful misconduct. So they refused to
overturn the decision and I am still without unemployment
compensation
7. There was no willful misconduct on my part. My former
company was not even challenging my compensation award on the
basis of willful misconduct. They appealed because they claimed
I resigned and they did not fire me.
8. How can the board rule I was terminated for willful
misconduct when the company did not claim this at all? My
company may not have been happy with me, but in no way was
there anything that one could call willful misconduct. The
board clearly overstepped their bound.
9. I am 54 years old, working all my life and now find that
when I have a real need I am denied what I have paid
unemployment insurance for. I have been working day and night
to find a position, the market is tough right now and my age,
and prior income level are both working against me as well. I
have been unemployed since February 1 I received 2 checks and
now nothing since March 1.
10. I am now going to have to sell my home for the last 15
years. Uproot my family, move my children to another school
district. The 4 or 5 thousand dollars I would have been
collecting would buy me a few more months of job search before
having to sell my home.

I do not know where else to turn. This is like a nightmare - I
cannot believe this is happening to me. Amazingly, the company
I had been with is now implementing my plan for turning their
business around and I am about to lose my home because of a
bureaucratic mess. I have written to a Mr. Edward Rawlings at
the Dept of Labor and Industry office in Harrisburg requesting
he reconsider the board’s decision. I am awaiting an answer. My
situation is dire.

Please help my family and me not lose our home.

Thank you

Good Morning: SEPTA indicates that your West Chester Office
can process Senior Citizen I.D. applications. Please advise
office hours, and if the entire process of showing proof of
age, applying for the ID and receipt of the ID can be handled
at that office, without traveling to the inconvenient SEPTA
locations in Philadelphia or Norristown?

Regards, Dan Lindley, Honey Brook, Chester County

Senator Dinniman,

I would like to encourage your vote for HB 289 to move up the
presidential primary election to February 12,2008. Please help
us have a meaningful voice in the primary process instead of an
afterthought rubber stamp.

Best regards,

Bert Cullen
Paoli

Dear Senator Dinniman,

I am a graduate student at Penn and I am working on a paper
regarding the backup on Valentine's Day of I-78, etc. I watched
the public hearings and I was impressed that you pushed for
towing fees to be returned to those motorists who opted to seek
shelter. I am wondering if you ever heard whether the towing
fees were in fact returned?

Thank you for your response and I hope all is well!

Kind Regards,

Victoria Koszowski
610-316-5771

Governor Rendell, State Legislators, Gaming Oversight
Committee, Gaming Board:

You did not allow the public to have any voice when you imposed
the casino sites upon city neighborhoods. Now Philadelphians
want a say !

Many have worked hard to put a question on the May 15 ballot
that will restrict casino locations and keep them out of areas
where they will subject residents to crashing property values,
24/7 drunken drivers, 50 story parking towers covered in
flashing neon lights, increased street crime and the
destruction of homes to expand highways to serve gamblers.

Stop the Gaming Board's lawsuit now! Let the people vote! Or
do you fear democracy?