Toomey says Mass. race means a health care do-over (Updated)

Republican Senate  candidate Pat Toomey said late Tuesday night that

Massachusetts’ Election Shows Public Rejection of Washington’s Health Care Bil

By TOOMEY FOR SENATE

Allentown, PA – Tonight, voters in Massachusetts made their voices heard.  In one of the most Democratic states in the country, voters elected Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate in a demonstration of their opposition to one-Party Democratic rule in Washington and the nearly $1 trillion health care monstrosity the Democrats are trying to ram through Congress.

Voters want health care reform but they are fed up with the bill…

Watchdog group hits Argall on per diems

Just one week after

Wagner hires a consulting team

Four months before primary voters go to the polls, state Auditor General Jack Wagner has hired a team of consultants to handle political strategy for his gubernatorial campaign.

Wagner has hired Bronstein & Weaver—a strategy and mail firm that has worked on local races in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York—to be his political advisers. David Dix, a Philadelphia-based political operative who has worked before with the firm’s partners, Michael Bronstein and Matthew Weaver, is…

The last refuge of a news anchor

Last Fall I wrote a has now chimed in with a blog post—

Hoeffel plans kick-off events

Four months after he

Wecht mulling a gubernatorial run, but laying low

Nationally-renowned pathologist Cyril Wecht said Monday that he is indeed considering a run for governor, but has yet to put together a campaign committee or start fundraising a mere 16 weeks before the wide-open Democratic primary.

In a brief interview with pa2010.com, Wecht avoided any specifics about his gubernatorial aspirations, but confirmed

Buchanan’s in for 4th District race, Republican says

Former U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan has decided to challenge Congressman Jason Altmire (D-4), and is may announce her candidacy as early as this week, according to a Republican who has spoken with her.

Lawrence County GOP chairman William Schafer said Monday afternoon that Buchanan, who has not returned e-mails seeking comment, told him numerous times recently that she’s decided to run. He said her work as a prosecutor would aid her candidacy.

“Mary Beth…

The Mendte-Livingston feud goes mainstream

Well, it’s official: The spat between pa2010.com‘s Michael Livingston and former news anchor Larry Mendte is no longer just an inside-baseball attraction.

A couple days after

Specter camp making voter calls for Mass. race

Senator Arlen Specter had his campaign headquarters put aside the work of winning him a sixth term on Monday evening, and focused instead of lifting the Democratic candidate in a surprisingly competitive Massachusetts Senate race.

Specter’s campaign said that at the headquarters in Harrisburg, staffers and volunteers were making get-out-the-vote calls for Attorney General Martha Coakley’s campaign.

The evening phone bank came as elected officials and candidates on both sides of the aisle in Pennsylvania…