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My support is going to…

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

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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 Fitzpatrick [...]

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Rendell Rejects Tea Party

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

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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 time. If [...]

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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 

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Dick Morris predicts Murphy will be unseated

Monday, April 19th, 2010

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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 their replacements [...]

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Fitzpatrick First Quarter Fundraising Numbers Are In

Friday, April 16th, 2010

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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.
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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 prior post, [...]

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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 Congressional [...]

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Want to know more about Gloria Carlineo

Monday, April 12th, 2010

The Bucks County Intelligencer published this article today on the background of Gloria Carlineo.  If you want to know more about her, read this article and her website at http://carlineo4congress.com/.
At this point, it seems to be a race between Gloria Carlineo and Mike Fitzpatrick.  You can find out more about Mike Fitzpatrick at his [...]

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James Jones survives petition challenge from Gloria Calineo

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

In this  article, the Intelligencer reports that James Jones has survived a petition challenge by Gloria Carlineo.  What really caught my attention, was the following quote:
The judge based today’s decision on the fact that she did not like the rules the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has put forth with regard to the form to be used [...]

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Mike Fitzpatrick raises about $500,000

Friday, April 9th, 2010

According to this PoliticsPA report, Congressional candidate Mike Fitzpatrick raised roughly $500,000 in the first two months of his race.  Pretty impressive Mike!  The numbers for all canidates are due to the FEC by April 15th.  Once they’re posted, I’ll post the results here.

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