Why Does Joe Sestak Oppose Pennsylvania Family Farms?

By TOOMEY FOR SENATE

Allentown – As Congressman Joe Sestak heads to the Penn Ag Democratic barbeque today, U.S. Senate candidate and former small business owner Pat Toomey asked: Why does Congressman Sestak support policies that will hurt Pennsylvania family farmers?

Sestak co-sponsored and voted for an energy tax that will be devastating to Pennsylvania family farms (RC #477, 06/26/09):

Farming is an energy-intensive industry with its fuel, chemical, electricity and natural gas-derived fertilizer costs. …

Two polls show Corbett up by double-digits

Republican Tom Corbett continues to hold a steady, double-digit lead in the race for governor, according to two new polls.

The

Admiral Sestak Speaks to Pennsylvania Farmers in State College

By SESTAK FOR SENATE

STATE COLLEGE, Pa – Today, U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak spoke to hundreds of small farmers and agribusiness representatives attending Penn State Progress Days about his plan to support small farming and next he will join the Penn Ag Democrats Picnic to further discuss his proposals to assist family farms, a key driver of our Commonwealth’s economy.

Joe emphasized the impact that farms have on Pennsylvania: “Pennsylvania’s economic prosperity is directly…

Lentz Flip Flops on Jobs Rhetoric

By MEEHAN FOR CONGRESS

DREXEL HILL, PA – On the heels of Bryan Lentz’ s economic forum in Chester County on Monday night, the Meehan for Congress campaign reminds voters of Bryan Lentz’s real economic agenda.

“Bryan Lentz likes to talk a good game about jobs and the economy when he’s in front of voters, but when it comes to the actual legislation he supports, he’ll do more harm than good to the economy in…

Defending partisanship

In May, a friend of mine mentioned that he registered as a Democrat so that he could vote in the primary and the next day he switched back to register as an Independent. As I tried to convince him that there was a benefit to registering with a party and being able to vote in primaries, he made the same insistence that so many very serious people make at election time, that he votes for…

Toomey: Economy would have ‘bounced back’ better without stimulus

Pat Toomey says that not only did the 2009 economic stimulus package not work, but it probably made things worse.

The GOP Senate nominee said Wednesday that the economy would “probably have bounced back much more strongly” without the stimulus, “because borrowing and spending doesn’t get you to prosperity.”

“We were promised that unemployment wouldn’t reach eight percent, it went over 10 percent,” Toomey said on Fox29.

Toomey has attacked the stimulus as having failed…

More on those AAF polls

On Tuesday we reported on a series of surveys, conducted by a GOP pollster and commissioned by a prominent conservative group. pAt the time, we didn’t have any documentation about the polling methodology, questions or anything else. So naturally, as always, we reported the results with a great deal of skepticism./p
pWell, we now have our hands on a significant amount of data from the polls, including toplines and crosstabs. We haven’t reviewed every inch of data here, and it’s always a question as to how pollster pick their samples. But the polls seem pretty darn legitimate. No push-poll style questions or flimsy methodology./p
pSo what’s the takeaway? Obviously, Democrats of all stripes in any competitive district are in trouble. And less than three months before Election Day, that trouble is serious enough that voters say they’ll support a candidate they don’t really even know./p
pWhether that will remain their answer as Nov. 2 approaches in another matter, and here’s where the skepticism is still warranted. It’s one thing to say you’ll vote for a guy you’ve never heard just because he’s not the incumbent to a pollster. It’s another thing to actually pull the lever for that guy once you’re in the booth./p
pThis is especially true in races like the 10th District, where the poll found Republican Tom Marino leading incumbent Democrat Chris Carney despite Marino still lacking wide name recognition. Marino has the climate on his side. But the particular circumstances are a different story. Marino is vastly underfunded, and Carney will have every opportunity to define the opposition on his own terms./p
pAnyway, you can review the polling data for yourself./p
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Group presses House candidates on Speaker vote

If you’re a candidate for U.S. House, watch out: Someone might be waiting around the corner with a camera to ask how you intend to cast your vote for Speaker.

Videos has surfaced on the Internet of candidates being grilled on the subject—and more often than not in the case of Pennsylvania candidates, giving boilerplate answers of “I’m focused on my race.” The videos are being posted on YouTube by the

Conservative group running ads in five Pa. districts

A prominent conservative group launched a major advertising campaign this week to decry congressional spending—and five competitive House races in Pennsylvania are among the group’s targets.

The ad from Americans for Prosperity decries last year’s economic stimulus package as wasteful spending. It was already seen airing in the 3rd Congressional District this week, where incumbent Democrat Kathy Dahlkemper’s campaign was quick to push back with an e-mail to supporters.

How much is being spent for…

LEFTOVERS: RJC on Sestak, Onorato on corruption, labor for Callahan

Democrat Joe Sestak continues to take hits on the Israel issue.

The Republican Jewish Coalition unveiled the latest anti-Sestak ad this week. It revives a common complaint Sestak has faced from conservatives: that during the most recent war in Gaza, Sestak signed onto a letter calling for more humanitarian aid. But it seems to go a little far in implying that Sestak wasn’t on Israel’s “side”—the letter in question made the signers support for Israel…