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Thanks Dan for explaining the made up term for something that doesn’t exist except it P.C. language.
Got some more info from the AG website, it always pays to study your opponents and their known associates. I bet they come to PAFOA to study US.


WELCOME TO CEASEFIRE PA!

CeaseFire PA is devoted to protecting your community from gun violence.

As the largest organization working to reduce gun violence in Pennsylvania, CeaseFire PA seeks the enactment of sensible gun laws, regulations and public policies through grassroots activism, to elect public officials who favor the prevention of gun violence and to increase public awareness of the gun violence crisis.

CeaseFire PA Goals:

Reduction of illegal handgun trafficking by limiting private buyers to the purchase of no more than one handgun per month.

Closing of the gun show loophole at the federal level.

Enactment of a strong and effective assault weapon ban.

Effective product safety standards for handguns.

The eradication of needless gun violence.


CeaseFire PA Board of Directors

Phil Goldsmith, President, is a principal and founder of GoldsmithKahn Associates, a public issues management consulting firm. A resident of Havertown, he has held senior positions in a broad spectrum of fields including law, journalism, government, banking and human resource consulting. He is the former chief operating officer of the City of Philadelphia, past interim chief executive officer o the School District of Philadelphia and interim executive director of the Fairmount Park Commission. He was an executive at PNC Bank for more than a dozen years.

Nancy Lamason, Vice President, is one of the founding members of CeaseFire PA. she came to this issue as a concerned citizen after many successful years in business, both in Pennsylvania and abroad.

Robin Valicenti, Secretary, is an art therapist who works with youth in crisis, often from the very communities being ravaged by gun violence. She is one of our founding members as well, and this is her second position as a CeaseFire PA officer.

Margaret (Peggy)McCausland, Immediate Past President, is a prominent member of the Philadelphia bar who practices in the field of employment law. She is also on the Board of Directors of Robin's Next, a New Jersey-based group that supports adolescents at risk and is an award-winning volunteer attorney with the Support Center for Child Advocates, which represents abused and neglected children throughout the Philadelphia area.

David B. Glancey is a lifelong resident of Philadelphia and recently retired from eh Philadelphia Board of Revision of Taxes. He served there for 24 years and was Chair of the Board for 17 of those years. He was also chair of the Democratic Party of Philadelphia from 1980-1983. He is a graduate of the Villanova School of Law and, prior to his service to the City, was associated with the Dilworth Paxon law firm.

Mary Beth Hacke joined the CeaseFire PA board as one of the original members. Her son was killed 10 years ago in Pittsburgh, at the age of fourteen months, when he was shot at while in their parked car at a gas station by a convicted felon with a gun. Ever since then, throughout her

James C. Higgins is an attorney in private practice in Delaware County, with a long history of public service. Jim is a veteran of the Vietnam War and several years ago served two terms as a Commissioner of Radnor Township, PA. He is president of a historical foundation in his community and has been an advocate for common sense firearms regulations for over thirty years.

Dr. Julie Levitt is a practicing clinical psychologist in Lower Merion, PA. She represents CeaseFire PA in an interfaith collaborative on the Main Line that conducts vigils and educational programming on gun violence prevention, and lectures widely on conflict resolution.

Lisa Macaulay is a business executive with Johnson & Johnson and lives in Chester County. She co-chairs CeaseFire PA's fundraising committee.

Mary McFate has been involved in gun violence prevention since the first federal assault weapons ban was enacted in 1994-1995. She is a member of the American Association for Suicideology, and was the first gun violence prevention advocate to start coalition building within that community.

Linda Rosenfeld is a community activist from the Lehigh Valley who has served as past president of Allentown City Council and Vice President of Lehigh County Commissioners. She is presently Chair of the Allentown Parking Authority and Special Advocate volunteer and has seen what gun violence and the threat of violence does to our children.

Bridgette Tobler is a licensed clinical social worker and therapi9st on the staff of Pennsylvania Clinical Schools in West Chester, PA, a residential treatment center for youthful offenders. She is also a member of the National Association of Social Workers and The Fiery Phoenix MC, Inc.

Jennifer W. Stein has been a CeaseFire PA supporter since its founding. She was a co-founder of the Coalition Against Jewish Domestic Violence in 1983, and has been active in anti-violence causes since then. She is an independent documentary filmmaker and lives in Delaware County.

Diane Edbril, Esq. is a former prosecutor and small business executive. She is a graduate of the Rockefeller College of Public Policy at the State University of New York at Albany, and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and has been on the staff of CeaseFire PA and the CeaseFire PA Pennsylvania Education Fund since 2002.