On Drilling, Obama and Toomey’s Views Converge, Sestak Remains on the Far-Left Fringe

By TOOMEY FOR SENATE

Allentown – Last week, U.S. Senate candidate Pat Toomey argued that President Obama had gone too far in his across-the-board moratorium on all drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, placing undue economic hardship on an already struggling area and unnecessarily increasing our reliance on foreign oil.  Yesterday, President Obama agreed and, according to news reports, will move quickly to lift a 30-day moratorium and reopen oil and gas exploration in shallow…

Pennsylvania Building Trades Endorse Dan Onorato For Governor

By ONORATO FOR GOVERNOR

PITTSBURGH, PA:  The Pennsylvania State Building & Construction Trades has endorsed Dan Onorato as the next Governor of Pennsylvania and praised his work in rejuvenating Allegheny County’s economy. The endorsement adds to the growing support Onorato has received since winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary in May.

“I am honored to receive the endorsement of the Pennsylvania Building Trades,” said Onorato. “These men and women understand the value of a strong and…

Will health care haunt Dahlkemper?

As a pro-life Democrat lauded for her role in shaping the abortion compromises in the new health care reform law, Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper (D-3) would seem to have more at stake than many incumbents in the continuing political debate over health care.

And while Dahlkemper will surely be pressed on the issue in the coming months, one area political scientist watching the race thinks health care is the wrong place for Republican Mike Kelly to…

Burns campaign chief won’t stay for Round 2

With a rematch looming in November, Republican Tim Burns will soon be getting a new campaign manager. Tadd Rupp, who ran Burns’ unsuccessful special election bid against Democrat Mark Critz last month, has left the campaign, according to a Republican insider familiar with the campaign.

Rupp himself would not discuss his departure on the record, and a campaign spokesman wouldn’t comment specifically on the staffing change. The Republican insider signaled that Rupp had planned earlier…

Mea culpa

I screwed up. Big time.

Readers of this site have come to expect the utmost transparency, and with that I offer up this belated explanation for an issue that is being discussed pBeth Hegedus, author of our a href="http://www.pa2010.com/author/bhededus/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2Fauthor%2Fbhededus%2F','Suburban+Snapshot')" target="_blank"emSuburban Snapshot/em/a blog, posted a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZAY_MF2fM" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.youtube.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcNZAY_MF2fM','a+YouTube+video')" target="_blank">a YouTube video that is quite critical of Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8). As we…

Corbett says Twitter subpoena was legit

Attorney General Tom Corbett on Tuesday issued one of the most direct defenses of his office’s much-criticized decision to subpoena Twitter for information on two anonymous critics, saying the judge who signed the subpoena “agreed with us it had a legitimate purpose, and the legitimate purpose was not going after people who were criticizing me.”

Corbett, during an appearance on Fox29, reiterated his office’s contention that the subpoena was a proper way to demonstrate that…

Sestak Endorsed by PA State Building and Construction Trades Council

By SESTAK FOR SENATE

Harrisburg, PA – Representing 16 Regional Councils and 118 Local Unions from across the state, Pennsylvania State Building and Construction Trades Council President Frank Sirianni announced the organization’s unanimous backing of Joe Sestak for U.S. Senate. Joe expressed his gratitude for their support and spoke about the need for our representatives in Washington to fight for the policies that give working families like those in the building and construction industries the…

Down-ballot fun

We don’t cover the down-ballot races here at pa2010.com, but our friends at the Swing State Project have compiled a pretty cool analysis of state legislative districts.

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Warning, but no electioneering penalty for Critz

A local elections supervisor in western Pennsylvania has decided that Democrat Mark Critz was improperly inside polling stations on the day he won election to Congress last month, but the same elections supervisor stopped short of saying Critz engaged in illegal electioneering and the congressman will only receive a warning.

The decision from Cambria County Elections Supervisor Fred Smith,

Sestak still hitting party leaders

Democrat Joe Sestak’s victory in the Senate primary last month doesn’t mean he’s done criticizing his party’s establishment for backing Arlen Specter instead.

Sestak, in an interview on PBS, said it was “wrong” for President Obama and others to back Specter.

“There’s no more kings, there’s no more king makers in America,” Sestak said the “Travis Smiley” show. “And if the Democratic Party should stand for anything when they are trying to get me out…