On Tuesday, October 6, 1998 Peg Luksik, Constitutional Party candidate for Governor, will focus on issues confronting Pennsylvania farmers at a PRESS CONFERENCE beginning at 9:45 a.m. at the Erie County Courthouse. "We need to preserve small family farms. Not only is agriculture the largest 'small business' in the Commonwealth, family farms are part of our cultural and economic heritage," says Mrs. Luksik. "We cannot afford to see them destroyed."

Mrs. Luksik made political history in 1990 when, running for the first time in the Republican primary, she nearly upset the handpicked, liberal candidate with a surprising 46% of the vote. The Republican hierarchy responded by shunning her and her supporters. In 1994 when it became apparent that neither the Democratic nor the Republican nominee would represent the interests of pro-family voters, Peg Luksik and James Clymer (her running mate) entered the race and garnered 13% of the vote in the general election ... the highest number achieved by independent candidates in a statewide election since the early 1900's.

According to an editorial in the August 26 issue of the Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Peg Luksik has provided "the first issue of interest and substance likely to cause some political stirring in the Pennsylvania's governor's race." The issue to which they refer is the growing number of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO's) in our Commonwealth. Mrs. Luksik has suggested a moratorium on new operations of this type until several serious questions about the environment, water supply, health problems, impact on family farms and economic effect are answered.