Former State Senator Connie Williams Endorses Manan Trivedi for PA 6th

By TRIVEDI FOR CONGRESS

Reading, Pa – Democratic candidate for the PA 6th congressional district, Manan Trivedi announced today that he has received the endorsement of former state Senator Connie Williams.  For 12 years Williams represented Montgomery County in the state legislature as both a representative and senator.

“I am excited to endorse Manan Trivedi for Congress,” said Sen. Williams.  “His life experience, intellect, ability to connect with people and energy will make him a…

What national debate?

As bloggers, we spend most of our time responding to daily events, so there isn’t always time to sit back and think about the overall state of things. That may be just as well, since the overall state of things is, actually, rather troublesome.

I found running for office unenjoyable because there seemed to an excessive focus on fundraising, a high degree of partisanship, and little real debate on the issues. If one reads the…

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Specter, a Republican for decades before switching parties earlier this year, voiced his criticism on Fox News Sunday.

“On the Republican side,” he said, “it’s no, no, no. A party of obstructionism. … You have responsible Republicans who had been in the Senate—like Howard Baker, Bob Dole or Bill Frist—who say Republicans ought to…

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Gerlach’s early gubernatorial money came from House account

Only a couple days after

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In the hustle and bustle of covering third quarter campaign finance reports, we missed a handful of them.

So here’s a quick rundown of the fundraising hauls reported by incumbents from both parties.

Freshman Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper pSophomore Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8) made some more headway in rebuilding a campaign war chest that was largely depleted after he spent heavily in the closing weeks before last year’s election, a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00411991/436394/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://query.nictusa.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nictusa.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdcdev%2Fforms%2FC00411991%2F436394%2F','raising+about+%24308%2C000')" target="_blank"raising about $308,000/a. He’s raised about $1.1 million during the cycle and has about $620,000 on hand./p
pCongresswoman Allyson Schwartz (D-13) a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00389197/436281/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://query.nictusa.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nictusa.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdcdev%2Fforms%2FC00389197%2F436281%2F','raised+about+%24231%2C000')" target="_blank">raised about $231,000, and has almost $2.6 million on hand, a sum that eclipses Republican opponent

Luksik has raised almost $300K, spent most of it

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Trivedi loaned his campaign $6K, has $122K on hand

It’s not Doug Pike money, but it’s something.

Democrat Manan Trivedi almost matched the money raised by his 6th District primary opponent in the third quarter, bringing in about $114,000. At the same time, he made a $6,000 loan to his campaign, finishing the period with almost $122,000 in cash on hand, according to pPike, the wealthy former emInquirer/em editorial writer, raised $125,000 during the quarter, but a…