Carney: Marino is ‘bereft of human decency’

Congressman Chris Carney (D-10) called foul play on Republican challenger Tom Marino Monday, saying the former U.S. Attorney has been using dirty politics to misrepresent the incumbent’s stance on abortion.

Carney’s comments, during a conference call with reporters and a statement later, came after Marino criticized Carney—…

Meehan camp brings ballot challenge against Schneller (Updated)

Two supporters of Republican Pat Meehan on Monday filed a ballot challenge against independent candidate Jim Schneller, trying to keep him off the ballot in the 7th Congressional District after pa href="http://www.pa2010.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Schneller-Ballot-Challenge.pdf" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F08%2FSchneller-Ballot-Challenge.pdf','The+challenge')" target="_blank"The challenge/a, filed late Monday afternoon in Commonwealth Court, came after Meehan’s campaign spent a week reviewing Schneller’s nominating petitions. The campaign quickly confirmed that it is behind the challenge filed by Patricia Wechsler and Ernest Angelos. The suit against Schneller will be handled by former Commonwealth Court Judge James Colins, the same Cozen O’Connor attorney who successfully defended Meehan’s campaign when Democratic opponent a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2010/03/ballot-challenge-spearheaded-by-lentz-alleges-widespread-fraud-in-meehans-petitions/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2F2010%2F03%2Fballot-challenge-spearheaded-by-lentz-alleges-widespread-fraud-in-meehans-petitions%2F','Bryan+Lentz+challenged+his+spot+on+the+primary+ballot+earlier+this+year')" target="_blank">Bryan Lentz challenged his spot on the primary ballot earlier this year. At the time, Meehan’s campaign decried the ballot challenge as a waste of taxpayer resources.

In a statement, Meehan campaign manager Bryan Kendro noted that Schneller, a conservative who has dabbled in …

Sestak looks to keep Green Party candidate off ballot

For the second time this cycle, Joe Sestak is trying to keep a potential spoiler candidate out of the electoral picture.

The Democratic Senate candidate on Monday filed a ballot challenge against Mel Packer, the Green Party candidate running against him and Republican Pat Toomey. The lawsuit in Commonwealth Court seeks to have Packer’s nominating petitions set aside.

As a liberal alternative to Sestak, Packer could presumably pull votes away from the Democrat in a …

Clinton still hoping to land ‘Joe Says Tax’ a job

With news that former President Bill Clinton will be campaigning on behalf of Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak this week, I couldn’t help but comment. As you certainly know, the two made headlines earlier this year for their involvement in the White House “Jobgate” scandal, in which Clinton, at the behest of the White House, offered Sestak a position in the administration as an enticement to drop out of the Senate primary against Arlen Specter.…

Murphy answers a call to show the jobs

Republican Mike Fitzpatrick recently called on opponent Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8) to substantiate a claim made that he had helped bring 3,000 jobs to the Bucks County district. Mocking the claim made in an official congressional mailer as “Murphy’s undocumented workers,” Fitzpatrick said that “Murphy must document these jobs.” Late last week, Murphy did just that.

In a conference call with reporters, Murphy showed off a list of 2,962 jobs brought to the district by …

MARINO RESPONDS TO CARNEY PRESS CONFRENCE

By MARINO FOR CONGRESS

Williamsport, PA – Shortly after Congressman Carney’s afternoon press conference, Republican U.S. Congressional Candidate Tom Marino issued the following statement:
“The recent media coverage regarding Mr. Carney’s lack of sponsorship of legislation which would prohibit taxpayer money from being used to fund abortions is just another example of Chris Carney saying one thing in the district and doing another when he gets to Washington D.C.  Mr. Carney has shown yet again …

Toomey Lays Out Clear Differences with Sestak on Spending

By TOOMEY FOR SENATE

Allentown – Today, at a press conference in the Pittsburgh area, U.S. Senate candidate and former small business owner Pat Toomey laid out the very clear differences between himself and Congressman Joe Sestak on spending issues.

Over his three and a half years in the U.S. Congress, Congressman Sestak has voted for over $3.5 trillion in new deficits.  He supported the Wall Street bailouts, the auto bailout, the bailout of Fannie …

Tom Marino’s gutter politics show utter lack of integrity

By CARNEY FOR CONGRESS

CLARKS SUMMIT — Tom Marino has demonstrated the true character of his campaign in recent days, using gutter politics of the worst kind to attack Congressman Chris Carney (PA-10) repeatedly while the congressman was fulfilling his Navy Reserve obligation and was unable to respond. The attacks waged over the past several days, culminating with a story in the Williamsport Sun-Gazette yesterday, came on an issue that Congressman Carney has displayed staunch …

In the 7th, it’s the petitions, stupid

In an election cycle where the focus was expected to be on jobs, jobs, jobs, who would have thought that the big topic in the 7th Congressional District would turn out to be petitions, petitions, petitions?

First came the accusations that Republican candidate Pat Meehan pNow comes news that independent Jim Schneller a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2010/08/lentz-volunteer-other-dems-helped-schneller-get-on-the-ballot/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2F2010%2F08%2Flentz-volunteer-other-dems-helped-schneller-get-on-the-ballot%2F','had+help+getting+himself+on+the+ballot')" target="_blank"had help getting himself on the ballot/a thanks to supporters of Democratic nominee Bryan Lentz, a revelation that Schneller himself is either a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2010/08/schneller-says-he-didnt-know-circulators-had-ties-to-lentz/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fschneller-says-he-didnt-know-circulators-had-ties-to-lentz%2F','disingenuously+denying+or+having+a+rather+difficult+time+coming+to+terms+with')" target="_blank">disingenuously denying or having a rather difficult time coming to terms with.

Now, it may not be the Orie-Zappala family feud that we’ve got going on over here in …

VIDEO: Veterans Teach Jim Gerlach a Lesson About Service in New Web Ad

By TRIVEDI FOR CONGRESS

Today, after Jim Gerlach’s attacks on Manan Trivedi’s time in the Navy, a group of veterans decided to teach the congressman a lesson about what it takes to serve in the military in a new web ad.

The web ad comes on the heels of an endorsement by the prominent veterans’ group, the Veterans’ Alliance for Security and Democracy (VETPAC), in which the group threw their support behind Manan Trivedi in …