Will the real Tom Corbett please stand up?

At first Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Corbett was echoing GOP orthodoxy that suggests extending unemployment benefits to the long-term jobless will only give them an excuse to sit back and collect their checks instead of going out and accepting the work that, in Corbett’s world, exists. Now, his campaign spokesman has

Kelly Campaign Rips Dahlkemper Taxpayer Paid Campaign Mail

By MIKE KELLY FOR CONGRESS

Butler, PA – Josh Snyder, Campaign Manager for Mike Kelly (R-Butler), released the following statement in response to Kathy Dahlkemper’s taxpayer paid mailers from her congressional office:

“During the past six weeks or so, Kathy Dahlkemper’s congressional office has sent two mailers that have been nothing more than taxpayer funded campaign mail.

The hypocrisy in the mailings would be funny if they weren’t so sad.  The first mailer talks about…

Corbett: It’s just negative campaigning

Republican Tom Corbett is still taking heat for saying some Pennsylvanians are remaining jobless to collect unemployment benefits. But on Tuesday, he said the criticism amounts to little more than negative campaigning by gubernatorial rival Dan Onorato.

“He’s been attacking, attacking, attacking,” Corbett said in East Pennsboro Township,

Barletta gets $85K from Giuliani appearance

Add another $85,000 to Republican Lou Barletta’s campaign coffers.

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LEFTOVERS: Sestak on Club for Growth, Toomey on earmarks, Lentz’s haul

Summer is the season of campaign Web videos, and it continued Tuesday with a broadside from Democrat Joe Sestak’s Senate campaign, which used its latest video to go after the Club for Growth, the limited government group formerly headed by Republican opponent Pat Toomey.

The video juxtaposes Toomey talking about his tenure at the club with Republicans bashing it. The club has long been a thorn in the side of moderate Republicans, who often find…

Sestak Applauds Senate Vote on Unemployment Benefits

By SESTAK FOR SENATE

MEDIA, Pa. – U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak today applauded the long-overdue vote by the Senate to clear a major hurdle and bring to the floor legislation that will restore unemployment benefits for those who have suffered the worst effects of this economic crisis.

“Since the end of May, when Senate Republicans cut off unemployment benefits to 2.5 million Americans, I have urged my colleagues in Washington to break this deadlock…

J Street goes to bat for Sestak

The liberal-leaning Israel policy group J Street is boosting Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7) with a new TV ad, noting that the Democratic Senate candidate “consistently votes for aid to Israel.”

The ad comes as Sestak’s campaign remains in

Murphy’s Economic Malaise: State Unemployment Stays High

By FITZPATRICK FOR CONGRESS

LEVITTOWN, PA:  Mike Fitzpatrick, Republican candidate for Congress, offered the following remarks regarding the high unemployment rate figures released today for Pennsylvania.

“The State unemployment rate continues to remain indefensibly high under Murphy’s watch,” said Mike Fitzpatrick, “Today, the unemployment rate in Pennsylvania is 9.2%; that’s 96% higher than where we were just four short years ago.”[2]

“The Pennsylvania unemployment rate has gotten worse since May,” continued Fitzpatrick, “With few signs…

A Congresional Power Rankings reshuffle

The campaign finance reports that were filed last week offered up a host of surprises, and taken together, they were more than enough for a reordering of the political landscape. With that in mind, we have made some changes to the pa2010.com

Sestak on His Own Ethics Policy: “Never Mind”

By TOOMEY FOR SENATE

Allentown – After months of talking about accountability in Washington, Congressman Joe Sestak refuses to be accountable for his own words and promises.

Here’s the chronology:

Step 1: For months, Congressman Sestak talked a big game about wanting to end Washington’s corrupt and wasteful spending system, all the while continuing to cast free-standing YES votes in favor of such wasteful earmarks as the American Jazz Museum in Missouri (RC #679, 07/19/07),…