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Kelly camp claims no sweat over Dahlkemper’s early buy
Conventional wisdom should have Republican Mike Kelly’s campaign at least a little panicked that Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper (D-3) is already on the air in the 3rd District. If that’s the case, Team Kelly isn’t showing it.
Dahlkemper’s campaign started airing its first 60-second spot this week, and has the money to stay on TV through Election Day in the northwest Pennsylvania district thanks to a health financial advantage over Kelly, a Butler car dealer. Kelly campaign spokesman Brad Moore played down Dahlkemper’s first ad buy, but declined to say when the campaign will air TV spots of its own. Kelly has mostly stayed in the game thanks to loans written out of his own checkbook, but has struggled to raise cash elsewhere.
“I caught it briefly this morning,” Moore said Thursday about the ad. “I didn’t really pay too much attention to what she said and here’s why. The economy is in shambles; this Congress has vastly overextended itself to the point where it’s bankrupting our country. And she has a 94 percent voting record with Nancy Pelosi.”
The first ad buy is contained to the Erie media market, Dahlkemper’s home base and the district’s population center.
“This is going to be the answer most times you approach a campaign, but I’m not going to disclose our media buying strategy,” Moore said. “We have a plan that will counter Dahlkemper. I think she has a long row to hoe before she convinces voters that she deserves another term. We’re not very concerned.”
August 27, 2010 at 8:00 am
Tags: Kathy Dahlkemper, Mike Kelly, PA-3
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Ken
Aug 28th, 2010
Not concerned ……should be!
Jim Klein
Aug 30th, 2010
Mike better get off his butt and start talking to the people. He can’t depend on it being an easy road to travel just because of her record. The dems are going to put a lot of spin on that voting record to try and make it look like it was the right thing to. Hope you have your s@@t together Mike
Dee
Aug 30th, 2010
I saw him speak today at a forum with Congresswoman Dahlkemper. This is the first time I’ve seen him personally since the primary. He seems to have it together.
Jim
Aug 30th, 2010
Was also at forum today. Sorry, neither Mike Kelly nor Kathy Dahlkemper really answered the questions. Typical politician, skated around the issues and talked about what they wanted to.
Mary Jo
Sep 2nd, 2010
4th District Keith Rothfus and Tom Corbett both have tremendous tea party support. What happened to Kelly? The 9/12 groups are also giving these two candidates tremendous support. Without it Kelly has a tough road to hoe. This is such a crucial race and Kelly seems to think her record will defeat her. Guess what, it won’t! Still lots of Dems who love her and Erie has a much larger voting population.
Ron
Sep 3rd, 2010
I was at that forum and I don’t know what Dee or Jim were watching, but from my vantage point Dahlkemper was all over Kelly. I was embarrassed for him he was so clearly not prepared. I believe he thinks he’ll get carried over the finish line because it’s the mood of the country. If I was him I’d either work a lot harder or hide for the rest of the time and hope that’s what will happen, because being out and talking is the worst thing he can do.