Mitt Romney is making his best push for Pennsylvania, by holding a telephone town hall and announcing his PA campaign leadership.
The Republican presidential nominee fielded a handful of questions dealing with issues like gas prices, education, small businesses, manufacturing jobs and his foreign policy agenda. All of these topics were discussed by Romney and citizens from Pennsylvania.
Romney also took the opportunity to knock President Obama, comparing his policies to those of a European country.
“I believe we’re looking at two directions for America,” said Romney. “One is a country which is more and more like Europe with a larger and larger government that taxes more, is more assertive in our lives, tells us what kind of health care we can have, what type of treatments we can ultimately receive. A country where the government invests money in various companies because they think they can do a better job than tax free markets. That’s the pathway that’s been chartered by the President.”
Romney also attacked Obama on Social Security and Medicare, saying if the two programs keep expanding under Obama, they are likely to go bankrupt.
But the PA Dems didn’t take the attacks lying down. State Chair Jim Burn blasted Romney’s comments, saying that PA voters won’t be fooled by his rhetoric.
“Mitt Romney’s phoned-in attacks on the President won’t change the fact that PA voters are not buying the failed policies of the past he’s selling, even after his allies have spent $20 million of special-interest-funded attacks in the state,” said Burn.
“Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama has a real, achievable plan that will create jobs, expand opportunity and ensure an economy built to last – one that’s built from the middle out, not the top down. It will help us meet a set of goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security and the deficit. That’s the type of leadership voters from Philadelphia to Erie deserve, not a return to the failed policies of the past.”
Republicans in Pennsylvania are working hard to show that they believe the Keystone State is still in play for Romney come Nov 6.
Despite the fact there are no ads airing in PA on either side and Obama is consistently polling ahead by over 7 points, Romney and the PA GOP say that the state is up for grabs.
In addition to the telephone town hall, the Romney Campaign also announced its leadership for the Pennsylvania campaign, headed by Governor Tom Corbett and Senator Pat Toomey. The rest of the leadership, including county leaders, is here:
State Finance Chairs
National Committeeman Bob Asher
National Committeewoman Christine Toretti
Republican Party of Pennsylvania Chairman Rob Gleason
State Co-Chairs
Congressman Mike Kelly
Congressman Glenn Thompson
Congressman Jim Gerlach
Congressman Pat Meehan
Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick
Congressman Bill Shuster
Congressman Tom Marino
Congressman Lou Barletta
Congressman Charlie Dent
Congressman Joe Pitts
Congressman Tim Murphy
Congressman Todd Platts
Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley
County Leaders
Adams
Nadine Devine
Allegheny
Joe Melaragno
Dave Majernik
Bill Kirk
Armstrong
Jen Baker
Beaver
Craig Holdren
Bedford
Tonya Clark
Steve Howsare
Berks
Larry Medaglia
Blair
Judy Ward
Debbie Shuster King
Bradford
Tina Pickett
Doug McLinko
Daryl Miller
Bucks
Pat Poprik
Butler
Michele Mustello
Cambria
Doug Lengenfelder
Cameron
Sarah Campbell
Carbon
Mary Ellen Salerno
Mike Sofranko
Centre
Joyce Haas
Chester
Ryan Costello
Brian Peppel
Clarion
Anita Lahr
Clearfield
Susan Williams
Arleen Multhauf
Clinton
Kurtes Smith
Columbia
Chris Young
Crawford
Mike Forbes
Cumberland
Barb Cross
Glen Grell
Vic Stabile
Tammy Shearer
Dauphin
Jeff Haste
Mike Pries
Janis Creason
Delaware
Andy Reilly
Elk
Grace Jesberger
Marcella “Sally” Geyer
Erie
Bowman Root
Fayette
Russ Rhodes
Forest
Pam Millin
Franklin
Dwight Weidman
Fulton
Sam Metz
Greene
Jim Minor
Huntingdon
Anne Layng
Indiana
Bill Darr
Jefferson
Maxine Zimmerman
Juniata
Bonnie Cveikus
Lackawanna
Frank Castellano
Lancaster
Katherine Wood-Jacobs
Joe Pitts
Lawrence
Nathan Sheafer
Lebanon
Susan Zug
Lehigh
Ryan Mackenzie
Lisa Scheller
Luzerne
David Baloga
Lycoming
Gabriel Campana
McKean
C. Russell Johnson
Mercer
Bob Robbins
Mifflin
Mark Colussy
Monroe
Tom Geffers
Mario Scavello
Montgomery
Joe Meo
William Donnelly
Montour
Harold Hurst
Northampton
Robert Kerr
Northumberland
Don Ely
Perry
Don McClure
Philadelphia
John Taylor
Pike
Mike Peifer
Potter
Karen Cahilly
Schuylkill
Bob Ames
Snyder
Pat Saylor
Malcolm Derk
Somerset
Bruce Hottle
Rose Svonavec
Sullivan
John Huhn
Susquehanna
Jason Legg
Tioga
Matt Baker
Don Yost
Union
Jeff Thompson
John Rowe
Venango
Martha Breene
Charles Breene
Warren
Al Loranger
Washington
Steve Toprani
Wayne
Liz Gregory
Westmoreland
Kim Ward
Wyoming
Paulette Burnside
Russ Gunton
Will Eggleston
York
Anne Zerbe
Leroy “Tighe” King
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Cherlyann….Chairwomen of the Sandra Fluke for Presidnent Club. Grow up and find a “real” issue to discuss that does make a difference to this country. In case you haven’t noticed there isn’t a single “women’s” issue on the table to be changed federally this election cycle.
Hang up!
Pat Poprik a leader? This woman was screaming via the republican radio station in Levittown in the last election that voting by absentee ballot was not legal unless you were OUT of the district. Her hostess never corrected her.
I did by calling in and saying it was not true, that the the infirm and those who expect to be out of the district can vote by absentee ballot. She helped create a fire storm over ballot applications clearly indicating there was tampering with ballots when in fact ballots were never at risk, it was all about applications and the DA has never come out to announce the result of his “investigation” He just cant bring himself to say there was no crime.
The simple fact of the matter is that Medicare and Social Security aren’t sustainable anymore. People are living much longer than they used to, and so the money coming out of these funds is growing substantially relative to the money going in. President Obama continues to ignore this, and I find that concerning.
Romney = Corbett = Toomey = Fitzpatrick = Tea Party. Bad for the women of PA who approves of restrictions on women’s lives and equal opportunity, and bad for seniors.
There is no place for these kind of politicians.
Mike – How can you say that about the “First Lady” of Bucks County?
Ha. Poprik a leader in Bucks? Everyone knows Deon runs the show there. Poprik is a joke.