The campaign committee charged with electing Republicans to Congress is targeting southwest PA, Roll Call reports this morning. They’ve reserved $1.3 million in post-Labor Day airtime.
Congressional challengers are criticizing House republicans for passing a Legislative budget that allows hundreds of thousands of dollars to be spent on campaign-style mailers.
Support for Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Delaware) is waning according to an internal poll conducted by his opponent, George Badey. Although Rep. Meehan currently has a 20 point edge, his lead shrinks when his record on Medicare and women’s health are revealed.
Nancy Pelosi didn’t stop in Bucks County during her visit to PA on Saturday, but that was close enough for Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick. His campaign challenged opponent Kathy Boockvar to say whether she’d be a vote for Pelosi in Congress.
House Republicans were joined by three-dozen Democrats to repeal part of the health care law: a tax on medical devices. The GOP has launched a full court press, saying opposition to the tax illustrates the illegitimacy of all of Obamacare. President Obama has threatened to veto the repeal.
Missa Eaton, a psychology professor at PSU Shenango and Rep. Mike Kelly’s Democratic opponent, took to the road Thursday to explain what she’d do in Congress. She toured several restaurants in the district to unveil her Five Point Plan.
Rep. Mark Critz is still hammering the Medicare drum. Once in a blue moon can a politician find a single issue that can carry him or her through both a primary and a general election with equal efficacy. But after Keith Rothfus announced he’d be speaking at a Tea Party Express event in Pittsburgh Thursday evening, Critz went on the attack.
Matt Cartwright has a message for Congress: cut the partisanship and pass the transportation bill. The Lackawanna County attorney who knocked off Rep. Tim Holden cites May’s lackluster jobs report and says the bill means jobs.
Quick follow-up on PoliticsPA’s Monday report about the large discrepancies in internal polling between Rep. Jim Gerlach and his opponent Manan Trivedi in PA-6. Trivedi’s campaign has fired back since our first report, questioning the reliability of Gerlach’s polling numbers.
Conservative PAC FreedomWorks is launching an intensive ad campaign costing between $500,000 and $1 million and aimed to “pressure state lawmakers…to pass a school choice bill” this June, and also endorsing Sen. Bob Casey’s opponent, Tea Party-backed Tom Smith.
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