The six men running to be the state’s next governor took equal aim last night at the government that they hope to lead, painting Pennsylvania as a state where it is tough to find a job and run a business.
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Friday, March 5th, 2010Slow start to Pa. gubernatorial primary races
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Berwood Yost, director of the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin and Marshall College, said the quiet was almost eerie. “I guess it’s kind of the silent phase of the campaign,” he said.
PoliticsPA: Wagner receives another county committee endorsement
Thursday, February 25th, 2010The Warren County Democratic Committee endorsed Jack Wagner’s gubernatorial bid on Thursday, the auditor general’s campaign said.
PoliticsPA: Wagner wins majority but not endorsement from state Dems
Saturday, February 6th, 2010LANCASTER — None of the five candidates seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination received enough support Saturday for the state Democratic Party’s endorsement, but at least four of them claimed afterward the vote totals were victories for their campaigns.
The vote, taken at the party’s winter meeting, means the candidates will compete in an open primary for the nomination. Members took two ballots, with the candidate receiving the fewest votes on the first, in this case Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Hoeffel, being removed for the second.
PoliticsPA: Wagner continues to rack up endorsements
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Gubernatorial candidate Jack Wagner picked up another endorsement from a local Democratic leader Tuesday when his campaign said it had received support from the chairwoman of the Sullivan County Democratic Committee.
PoliticsPA: Finance reports show Onorato clear front-runner
Monday, February 1st, 2010Campaign finance reports released Monday seem to definitively separate Dan Onorato from the four-man Democratic gubernatorial field while raising significant questions if the other three candidates can raise enough money to even be competitive.
Combined, Jack Wagner, Joe Hoeffel and Chris Doherty have only about $1 million on hand, six-and-a-half times less than the Allegheny County executive. Onorato has a nearly $6 million cash-on-hand advantage over his closet rival, Wagner.
PoliticsPA: Wagner with $675k on hand
Monday, February 1st, 2010Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jack Wagner has about $675,000 on hand after raising roughly $170,000 in the last five weeks of 2009, finance reports provided by his campaign Monday show.
PoliticsPA: Onorato has $6.5 million on hand
Monday, February 1st, 2010Democratic gubernatorial front-runner Dan Onorato said Monday he had about $6.5 million on hand to end 2009 after raising nearly $3.7 million last year, by far the most of any of his rivals for the party’s nomination.
PoliticsPA: Sen. Williams considering gov run
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Hours after Philadelphia businessman Tom Knox ended his campaign for governor Friday, some of his former staffers and several city leaders met to discuss their mutual frustration over the gubernatorial race thus far.
The group was upset that none of the candidates, Republican or Democrat, seemed willing to talk directly about issues plaguing Pennsylvania such as inner-city poverty, according to state Senator Anthony Williams.
PoliticsPA: Doherty’s gov campaign raised $440k last year
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Chris Doherty raised about $440,000 for his gubernatorial campaign through the end of last year while simultaneously drawing nearly $675,000 in contributions into a separate account for his mayoral re-election campaign, his campaign said Friday evening.
Combined, he raised about $1.1 million.
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