Tom Killion Formally Announces Run for Lieutenant Governor

By KILLION FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

SPRINGFIELD, PA – Joined by family, friends, and supporters, Representative Tom Killion tonight formally announced his intention to seek the Republican Party’s endorsement for Lieutenant Governor in 2010.  Following introductions by Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, Senator Ted Erickson and Delaware County Republican Chair Andy Reilly, Killion said his background in state, county, and federal government, and as a small business owner, provides him with a level of experience and…

Sestak Rejects Republican Policies of Toomey and Specter that Led to Economic Meltdown

By SESTAK FOR SENATE

MEDIA, PA – Today, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Congressman Joe Sestak responded to Pat Toomey’s unfounded criticism of our economic recovery efforts:

“Instead of criticism now, Republicans President Bush, Pat Toomey and Arlen Specter should have demonstrated leadership over the past decades to prevent the harmful policies that caused the current economic crisis and the need for TARP and the Economic Stimulus Bill. Instead of leadership, they created the mess that…

Auditor General Jack Wagner Urges Philadelphia School District, Delaware River Port Authority to Get Out of Swaps

By THE OFFICE OF AUDITOR GENERAL JACK WAGNER

HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 3, 2009 – A year after the taxpayers bailed out Wall Street, no action has been taken to curb unregulated financial derivatives and local taxpayers may be paying the price, says Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner. In particular danger are school districts and other local governments and government agencies that are betting taxpayer money on the direction of interest rates.  Wagner wants officials to…

Four steps toward job creation

President Obama is holding a jobs summit at the White House Thursday. I commend the President for recognizing that the economy is the number one domestic issue of the day.

Unfortunately, it has been the policies (and threat of policies) that have come out of Washington over the past several months and years that have driven jobs out of this country or kept companies from investing here. All businesses know that it is difficult to…

White House holds another Photo-Op Summit

By HUBER FOR CONGRESS

This year, it’s become a pattern of the Obama Administration and liberals in Congress to make a problem worse, and then pretend they’re working on it by holding a well-attended photo-op at the White House.

At the beginning of the year, they extended the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and passed a $787 billion stimulus.  After they faced intense criticism for the growth in the federal deficit and national…

Warwick supervisor seeking GOP nomination in 8th District

The Republican race to take on Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8) is becoming a crowded affair.

Judith Algeo, a family law attorney who chairs the Warwick Township Board of Supervisors, became the latest candidate to enter the primary Wednesday, The Bucks County Courier Times reports. She is the fourth candidate seeking the Republican nomination during a cycle in which Murphy is not expected to be very vulnerable.

She joins a group that includes Dean Malik, an…

Meehan named in lawsuit (Updated)

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Former U.S. Attorney and congressional hopeful Pat Meehan is among a number of current and former Justice Department officials being accused of harassment in a lawsuit brought by a fired assistant U.S. Attorney.

The Daily News reports that Paul Mansfield, who was terminated in 2007, has sued the Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder in a bid to get his job back and be compensated for damages.

While Meehan…

Killion announcing Lt. Gov. run tonight

Three months after

The gloves come off in the 6th District

When the sun came up Tuesday morning, the Democratic primary between Doug Pike and Manan Trivedi was just another intra-party contest, competitive but relatively civil.

But by Wednesday afternoon, one op-ed, three press releases later and some negative Google text ads later, the race in the 6th Congressional District had devolved into one of the most contentious primaries in the state, rivaled only by the party’s bitter Senate race. When it was over, arguably little…

Toomey’s record always favored Wall Street over Main Street

Today, Pat Toomey, the former head of the Wall Street-backed Club for Growth and a former Wall Street derivative trader, will be in Allentown to explain why he is right and President Obama is wrong when it comes to rebuilding Main Street.

What Toomey won’t say is that he’s spent his adult life advocating for policies that have destroyed Main Street and drove the Pennsylvania economy into the ditch. As head of the Club for…