5/17 Morning Buzz
Good morning politicos, here’s the Buzz. The Senate continued its 1100 day-plus streak of no budgets yesterday, progressives continue their battle against ALEC, and Karl Rove’s Super PAC is up with an ad in PA.
Good morning politicos, here’s the Buzz. The Senate continued its 1100 day-plus streak of no budgets yesterday, progressives continue their battle against ALEC, and Karl Rove’s Super PAC is up with an ad in PA.
A plan to balance the federal budget proposed by Sen. Pat Toomey was voted down by the Senate 42 to 57 on Wednesday, but still garnered more votes than any other proposal.
After receiving criticism over using public funding for payments toward ALEC, members of the Pennsylvania legislature have severed their ties to the group after Keystone Progress, a liberal activists group, made the practice known after a Right-To-Know request led to the discovery of documents that showed taxpayer dollars may be going to this organization.
Pennsylvania has voted decidedly Democratic in the last three presidential elections, but neither candidate takes an Obama victory for granted in 2012. Stu Rothenberg asks, is PA really in play?
Crossroads GPS, the conservative Super PAC founded by Karl Rove, is launching a nearly half a million dollar ad buy in Pennsylvania. Their television spot that hammers President Obama over broken promises, and comes as Mitt Romney endures a blistering ad assault here.
Good morning politicos, here’s the Buzz. A progressive group seeks to toughen up Obama on the banks, presidential campaign ads keep flying in PA, and Rep. Joe Pitts has an interesting day in the press.
President Obama has housing issues, according to a poll released by the progressive group Campaign for a Fair Settlement. 48 percent disapprove of his handling of the housing and mortgage crisis while 38 percent approve.
Just how “Tea Party” are Reps. Pat Meehan and Mike Fitzpatrick? Not very, according to the Club for Growth. The conservative group released a scorecard of freshman Republicans, and found the SEPA congressmen in the bottom 5.
With the map ready to go before the Supreme Court, PoliticsPA would like to ask its readers in our latest poll whether the Supreme Court is likely to accept or reject the LRC’s latest proposal.
Rep. Joe Pitts recently replied to a constituent’s letter with a rather interesting position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon need to come back to the negotiating table. Arafat has been dead since 2004 and Sharon in a coma since 2006.
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