Democrats from across PA are meeting at the Valley Forge Casino Resort Friday night and Saturday to talk general election strategy – and Charlotte convention plans. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is keynoting the Keystone Dinner on Friday night which will also feature Sen. Bob Casey.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s win Tuesday buoyed the spirits of Republicans hither and yon. Today, the PA GOP sought to give direction to the enthusiasm with a fundraising email. Meanwhile, a conservative PA group chastened GOP officials to be bolder in the wake of the victory.
Dr. Sharon Brown will take on the Republican nominee for the seat of ex-Senator Jane Orie, a Democratic source confirms. She’s an epidemiologist from Wexford who challenged Mike Turzai in 2010. She’ll likely face former U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart.
With surrogates like these, who needs enemies? Ed Rendell hasn’t backed down on his off-message comments about President Obama despite backlash from fellow Democrats. On Thursday, he implied Obama lacked executive experience and that Hillary Clinton would’ve served more effectively as president.
The Obama campaign shifts its fire from Mitt Romney to Congress in its newest television ad in Pennsylvania. The new spot, “Jobs,” follows the disappointing release of last month’s jobs report.
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.
Good morning, politicos, here’s the buzz. There was a flurry of politics yesterday, and this morning we have more about those F&M poll results, details on Michelle Obama’s visit to Philly, and FreedomWorks backing Tom Smith.
Although Pennsylvania was a big victory for Obama in 2008, Romney is still hoping to win the Keystone State this time around, and so the more popular Obama, First Lady Michelle, spoke at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia Tuesday.
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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