You don’t need to post it, Dan. All his ads are the same every cycle. He’ll do one bio ad, and 20 negative ones where he calls Trivedi “ultra-liberal” and accuses him of secretly wanting to raise taxes and kill babies. It’s the Gerlach way: when you’re an unremarkable Congressman with no distinguishing record and no compelling personal story, you just tar your opponent as being for whatever you wish he or she was for. Here’s to hoping that it won’t work a 5th time.

Have you been listening over the years???I guess having a father being killed by a drunk driver at the age of 5, being one of three raised by a single on a secretaries salary, putting yourself through school by pulling hot metal out of a furnace in a steel mill and sleeping on an air mattress in his DC office so he can afford to pay for his kids college education isn’t a compelling personal story? A twenty year record of being a tax hero, has never voted for a pay raise, votes his district, is a champion of business (gaining all chamber and small business endorsements), endorsed by the police in his district, first responders in his district, and on and on and on.

OR we could go with Trivedi’s “story”. Moved up here to run for Congress when he heard that Jim Gerlach wasn’t running. Didn’t even join a medical practice to become part of the community, but took a part time “hospitalist” job and hasn’t even worked at that since January of 2010. Keeps a nice house in DC in case the “running for Congress thing” doesn’t work out or does work out then he will spend all his time down there instead of in the District. Is only interested in single payer health insurance because he thinks he knows best when it comes to people’s healthcare options. Has no clue how to create real jobs, thinks that bigger government programs are the answer….wow now that’s compelling. Compelling enough to drive a lot of people to the polls to vote for Jim Gerlach..Good call Adam S.

Adam, Trivedi doesn’t secretly want to kill babies – he’s very “out” about it. http://www.libertycity.org/MananTrivedi.pdf

politigator, whoever you are: Trivedi was born and raised in the 6th CD, in Fleetwood, Berks County. The reason he lived for a time in D.C. was because he worked as Health Policy Advisor to the Navy Surgeon General. He came back home to Berks to work as a Primary Care Physician.
You make up stories just like Gerlach has against his previous opponents. hmmm…are you Gerlach?

TRIVEDI CAMPAIGN:
Here’s your ad against Gerlach

“Jim Gerlach: the candidate for people that miss George Bush’s and Dick Cheney’s policies.”

…. and results

BerksWoman: He came back to Berks to work as a primary care physician? Really? He came back to the District in August 2009. He worked as a “hospitalist” at Reading Hospital for a grand total of three months, although he continued (until very recently) to list RH as his employer and to use the hospital on his campaign website and in his campaign literature. You know, Trivedi may have the makings of a great politician – he seems to have mastered the ungentlemanly art of lying.

Desperation smells worse than Jim Gerlach’s betrayal of his constituents.

Is that what Gerlach is trying to do with this add if so It worked

I counted the first 15 seconds about Gerlach, and the final 19 seconds being negative towards Manan. I don’t know anything about Gerlach, but if he feels he should get re-elected, why does he only spend 44 percent of his advertisement talking about his accomplishments and then attacking a decorated war veteran who helped care for U.S. soldiers? The negativity is a total turn-off.

The negativity worked for him last 3 times. He didn’t have anything positive to contribute to the dialogue when Lois Murphy or Bob Roggio ran against him. Lets hope voters have wised up enough to not vote based on negatives.

It is disgusting to see Gerlach claim he’s a “fiscal watchdog.” He’s not.

He complained bitterly on his website about the Democrats eliminating the student loan scam where taxpayers had to foot the bill on defaulted student loans for banks that took absolutely no risk and perpetuated these loans. He even had the gall to claim he was protecting private sector jobs! That is private sector jobs at taxpayer expense–socialized costs, no-risk private profits. By the way, the CBO scored the Democratic bill as saving tens of billions of dollars.

Even worse, he adores (and voted for) the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, which funded Medicare Advantage at such an extravagant level that it costs 14% more per recipient than traditional Medicare. I thought Medicare privatization was suppose to save money, like Republicans’ promised long ago.

Jim is not independent, he is not a fiscal watchdog; he is merely a nasty non entity.

Unfortunately, that may be enough to get him elected (again). We’ll see whether the 6th district can do better this cycle.