6/15 Ups & Downs
See who had a good week, and who would like to take it back. Campaigns are heating up around the state. Plus, it’s been busy in Harrisburg, and it looks like one politico could use a stiff drink.
See who had a good week, and who would like to take it back. Campaigns are heating up around the state. Plus, it’s been busy in Harrisburg, and it looks like one politico could use a stiff drink.
Democratic businessman Phil Scollo, who’s running for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 10th District, wants supporters to know he agrees with Bush. Jeb Bush, that is.
Good morning politicos, here’s the buzz. Romney’s coming to PA tomorrow, and supporters and critics are gearing up. Mark Critz whacked President Obama post-speech on trade and the Keystone Pipeline; and Kathleen Kane will be getting her third campaign manager.
Rep. Mark Critz, Republicans’ top congressional target in Pennsylvania this cycle, had some less-than-kind words for Barack Obama following his major campaign speech Thursday. He criticized the President on trade and the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Don’t write off Pennsylvania as a swing state quite yet. GOP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will make 3 stops on his bus tour through PA, several Republican sources confirm. He’ll be in Bucks, Carbon and Lebanon counties on Saturday.
For the second time in 6 months, Kathleen Kane is changing her top staff. Campaign Manager Sadie Sterner Restivo is moving on, according to several sources with knowledge of the race. Update: the Kane campaign confirmed the change.
Good morning politicos, here’s the buzz. Lots of Pittsburgh news today! The NRCC reserves $1.3M in fall airtime there; meanwhile, GOP candidates stopped in Steel City to make the pitch for coal industry deregulation; and, some Steelers threw their support and $$ behind Obama.
GOP Senate candidate Tom Smith joined southwestern PA Republicans at a Wednesday news conference in Pittsburgh. They criticized President Obama for EPA regulations against the coal industry, which they say raised energy costs and destroyed jobs.
Tom Smith’s heavy television campaign carried the former coal company owner to a wide victory in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate. But in two recent interviews, he backed off of one of his most direct assertions: that he’d never vote to raise the debt ceiling.
Pittsburgh Steelers’ former chairman Dan Rooney and the team’s head coach Mike Tomlin have made financial donations to the Obama campaign and will support the President in November’s election.
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