Random Chuck Ardo sighting…

Our correspondent at the Specter fundraiser says former Rendell press secretary Chuck Ardo is signing people into the event.

Interesting little tidbit. I guess.

Specter says he’ll support EFCA

Speaking to hundreds of labor activists, Senator Arlen Specter said Tuesday that he will back the Employee Free Choice Act.

Specter has changed his mind on the legislation numerous times, originally sponsoring it, saying he wouldn’t support it as he faced a GOP primary and then reconsidering after switching parties. Since then, centrist senators have worked to strip the most controversial “card-check” provision that came to identify the bill, and it remains unclear whether than…

Schroder gets a campaign manager

State Representative Curt Schroder (R-Chester) has hired a campaign chief for his 6th District Congressional run.

Schroder announced Tuesday that he had hired Kyle Whatley as his campaign manager. The Texas native has worked for Congressional and mayoral campaigns in the Lone Star State. He moved to Pennsylvania to manage Schroder’s campaign.

“My wife and I would not have moved almost two thousand miles if I was not absolutely certain Curt Schroder was going to…

Hoeffel wins a straw poll

In a gubernatorial primary that some Democrats say is short on true progressives, Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Hoeffel might be the darling of that crowd.

That’s if you believe an admittedly “very unscientific” straw poll released by Keystone Progress Tuesday.

In the survey of over 1,000 progressive activists, Hoeffel, the former Congressman who is considering a run, won about 35 percent of the vote. State Auditor General Jack Wagner was in second with about 22…

State Representative Curt Schroder Adds Campaign Manager

By CURT SCHRODER FOR CONGRESS

Exton, PA – State Representative Curt Schroder continued to build his campaign team by hiring
veteran political campaign manager Kyle Whatley. Mr. Whatley will be joining the Strategy Group for
Media and Hallowell & Branstetter on Rep. Schroder’s campaign staff.

Mr. Whatley has held leadership positions in or managed four congressional campaigns, a mayor’s
race and two city council offices. He led a statewide non-profit organization and…

For Specter, hypocrisy on missing votes?

We’ve all heard the daily canard from Arlen Specter about Joe Sestak’s missed votes in the House. Sestak has been absent quite a bit attending to the needs of his campaign, and Specter has made much political hay over it. Just last month, Specter was on TV saying of Sestak: “He’s missed 105 votes; worst record of any Pennsylvania member of the House of Representatives. He’s AWOL, been absent without leave. If he were still…

Sorry Steven

Steven Welch’s recent decision to

Specter Stops Senate While Taxpayers Foot the Bill

By TOOMEY FOR SENATE

ALLENTOWN, PA – Senator Arlen Specter is stopping the Senate’s business dead in its tracks today so he can leave early to hold a fundraiser for his Senate campaign (CQ Politics, 09/13/09).

This announcement comes on the heels of a new report by the Congressional Oversight Panel that says taxpayers will probably never see the $81.1 billion they were forced to spend bailing out the auto companies.  Specter voted in favor…

With Trivedi in, a Berks insider backs off his endorsement of Pike

With a primary field seemingly to himself in the 6th District, Democrat Doug Pike had been piling up endorsements from party insiders and elected officials at a frenetic pace.

But now Full Story

Meehan stops short of opposing health care legislation

DREXEL HILL—Even as he outlined a textbook conservative position on health care policy, GOP Congressional hopeful Pat Meehan on Monday passed on the opportunity to directly criticize health care legislation that is emerging in Washington.

“It’s such a complex network of proposals, there really is at at this point in time no sound health care plan as of yet,” Meehan said after