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Pennsylvania Catholic Conference publishes candidate questionairre

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference has just published their candidate questionnaire.  You can read it at http://www.pacatholic.org/faith-politics/get-to-know-the-candidates-primary-election-2010/.  Responses appear for candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Senator. Share or bookmark:

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Inquirer endorses Fitzpatrick

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Image via Wikipedia In this Philadelphia Inquirer article, they endorse Mike Fitzpatrick for the GOP nomination  in the 8th district (I announced my support for Fitzpatrick in this blog entry)  and Abington businessman Carson Dee Adcock for the 13th district.  They do not, however, offer any detailed analysis of why they chose these candidates.  It’s interesting to [...]

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Information on PA-08 Congressional candidates

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

The Morning Call published an article with background information on the candidates for Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional district.  You can find this article at http://www.mcall.com/opinion/all-8th-congress-050510,0,2595082,full.story.  The candidates are: Gloria Carlineo Mike Fitzpatrick Ira Hoffman James Jones Remember, primary day is May 18, 2010.  Get out and vote. Share or bookmark:

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My support is going to…

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Today, is the three month anniversary of my decision to leave the race for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 8th district.  In that time, I’ve been reading the press on all of the remaining 8th district candidates, watching their speeches, and reviewing their fundraising numbers.  It is now infinitely clear to me that Mike [...]

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Rendell Rejects Tea Party

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Ed Rendell spoke out against the Tea Party movement (read about it here).   Here said: “There’s just no clout behind this movement. “It reflects what people feel, but the actual movement itself has no infrastructure, has no ability to bring a lot of people to key sites at key moments in [...]

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Tri State Take Back Congress Tea Party – Videos

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

You can find videos from the “Tri State Take Back Congress Tea Party” on YouTube. Here is a link to Mike Fitzpatrick’s speech Here is a link to Gloria Carlineo’s speech  Share or bookmark:

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Dick Morris predicts Murphy will be unseated

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Image via Wikipedia In this article, Dick Morris predicted that the GOP will win at least 39 seats.  He says at least seven or those seats will come from Pennsylvania including the seats currently held by: Kathy Dahlkemper, Jason Altmire, Patrick Murphy, Christopher Carney, and Paul Kanjorski. Let’s hope that Morris is correct and that [...]

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Fitzpatrick First Quarter Fundraising Numbers Are In

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Image of Mike Fitzpatrick The first quarter fundraising numbers for Mike Fitzpatrick were posted on the Federal Election Committee website today.  You can find the numbers here. In summary, he received $509,794.  $450,434 from individual contributors and $59,360 from Political Action Committees. Related articles by Zemanta GOP to contest more seats in 2010 (tech.bl0x.info) Oil rises [...]

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Carlineo First Quarter Fundraising Numbers Are In

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

The first quarter fundraising numbers for Gloria Carlineo were posted on the Federal Election Committee website today.  You can find the numbers here. In summary, she received $110,079 dollars.  $11, 584 were from individual contributors and the rest was from her own funds ($18,394 in cash and “in-kind” contributions and a $80,100 personal loan) In this [...]

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The morons in Washington may have cancelled their own health insurance

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

You’ll love this article  from the New York Times.  It’s further proof that the members of the House and Senate either: are incompetent, didn’t read the bill, or made it so complicated that even they can’t understand it.  Here’s a quote from the article that summarizes the main point …the law may “remove members of Congress and [...]

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