Archive for June, 2009
The First Read — June 24, 2009
Every Monday-Thursday morning, pa2010.com compiles the most important political news of the day, from newspapers to the blogosphere and back. Enjoy this edition.
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pa2010.com‘s Best-Dressed Political Consultants
A day after we presented our Top 10 Political Consultants list, pa2010.com offers up something far more superficial: Who’s the best dresser? Read More…
With hire, it seems more and more likely that Dems will clear the field for Pike
MIDDLE OF NOWEHERE, CANADA—Still writing from a lake you can barely find on Google Earth, but as you can see, the news never stops at pa2010.com.
I was intrigued to see that Doug Pike’s Congressional campaign has
Full StoryPike hires trio of consulting firms for 6th District run
Democrat Doug Pike, a former Philadelphia Inquirer editorial writer, has hired three political consulting firms—including the company run in part by Neil Oxman, a longtime strategist for Gov. Ed Rendell—for /a/p
pa href="http://www.campaigngroup.tv/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.campaigngroup.tv']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.campaigngroup.tv%2F','The+Campaign+Group')" target="_blank"The Campaign Group/a, which Oxman runs with Doc Sweitzer and J.J. Balaban, will advise the Pike campaign and produce its radio and television ads. Philadelphia native Jef Pollock’s a href="http://www.globalstrategygroup.com/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.globalstrategygroup.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalstrategygroup.com%2F','Global+Strategy+Group')" target="_blank">Global Strategy Group will conduct polls for the campaign. pThe Campaign Group was recently working for Democrat Joe Torsella’s a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2009/05/report-torsella-to-bow-out-of-senate-race/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2F2009%2F05%2Freport-torsella-to-bow-out-of-senate-race%2F','aborted+Senate+run')" target="_blank"aborted Senate run/a, is working for gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato and helped elect Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. Oxman this week topped empa2010.com/em‘s list of the Commonwealth’s a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2009/06/pa2010coms-top-10-political-consultants/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fpa2010coms-top-10-political-consultants%2F','Top+10+Political+Consultants')" target="_blank">Top 10 Political Consultants.
Taking a look at Rendell’s proposed tax increase
Republicans, as expected, are up in arms and, as usual, spreading untruths about Gov. Ed Rendell’s proposed increase in personal income tax to help cover the commonwealth’s expected $3.2 billion budget deficit.
Despite cutting more than $1 billion out of the proposed budget for fiscal year 2009-2010 with still more to come, the GOP is accusing Rendell of refusing to make any cuts and of trying to maintain prerecession…
Full StoryAichele makes Lt. Gov. run official
announced today. The Republican had already effectively said she would run
Full StoryLasher abandons Dahlkemper challenge
Brian Lasher will not seek the Republican nomination in the 3rd District, leaving freshman Congresswomen Kathy Dahlkemper (D-3) unopposed for now, YourErie.com
Full StoryKrugman on a “lost decade”
Perhaps the greatest fear of countries in various steps of recovery from the financial crisis is that of a pNobel Prizing-winning economist Paul Krugman has an interview on this very a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jun/14/economics-globalrecession" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.guardian.co.uk']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fbusiness%2F2009%2Fjun%2F14%2Feconomics-globalrecession','subject')" target="_blank"subject/a. But one blog seems to a href="http://blogsandwikis.bentley.edu/themoneyillusion/?p=1530" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://blogsandwikis.bentley.edu']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fblogsandwikis.bentley.edu%2Fthemoneyillusion%2F%3Fp%3D1530','suggest')" target="_self">suggest that Krugman is aggressively monetist in his view.
The First Read — June 23, 2009
Every Monday-Thursday morning, pa2010.com compiles the most important political news of the day, from newspapers to the blogosphere and back. Enjoy this edition.
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pa2010.com’s Top 10 Political Consultants
They’re the people pulling the political strings behind campaigns. The people who get politicians elected. The people journalists love to quote, even if they’re…
