“His contributions to college athletics and higher education, as well as the content of his character, make Coach Joe Paterno deserving of the Presidential Medal of Freedom,” wrote Senators Bob Casey and Pat Toomey and Congressman Glenn Thompson.
Allegheny County Controller candidate Chelsa Wagner is among those who earned the endorsement of the Women’s Campaign Forum, which backs “qualified women candidates running for all levels of office, across the country, of any political party, who pledge to support reproductive health choices and options for all.”
It was a tough week for Harrisburg City Council, a tough anniversary for Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, and an up-and-down couple days for Senator Toomey. See why in this week’s edition of Up & Down.
Last year, Fitzgerald served as co-campaign manager and communications director for Tom Marino’s upset victory over incumbent Democratic Congressman Chris Carney in the 10th congressional district.
In a 2-1 vote, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that U.S. District Judge Ronald Buckwalter failed to adequately explain why Fumo’s 55-month sentence fell short of sentencing guidelines that prescribed at least ten years in prison.
“…Every Pennsylvania political observer I spoke with deemed Romney the early front-runner in the Philly ‘burbs, and I agree,” Smerconish writes in today’s Inky. “That is, as long as it’s Romney the moderate former Massachusetts governor making the obligatory visits to the Italian Market, and not the more conservative ’08 also-ran who struggled to curry favor with the GOP base.”
That data – essentially a measurement of which parts of the state gained and lost population since 2000 – pinned the ideal population of a state Senate district (254,048) and a state House district (62,573), reports Laura Olson of the Post-Gazette’s Early Returns blog.
Over the three-day NEPA river tour, Corbett paddled the waters from Mehoopany, Wyoming County, through northeastern part of the state, into the Susquehanna River and ended up in Wilkes-Barre.
Three of the ten Republican officials currently charged with using taxpayer resources to fund campaign efforts will plead guilty this week, according to reports published by news outlets throughout the state.
A week after targeting U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire for his vote against the Cut, Cap and Balance Act, the National Republican Campaign Committee will launch a robocall critical of U.S. Rep. Mark Critz’s support for economic policies the NRCC believes are “punishing middle class families,” PoliticsPA has learned.
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