Jane Orie worried that a Senate run would have hurt sister’s judicial bid

July 18, 2009 at 1:37 pm

The word on the street is that Jane Orie’s short-lived exploration about a 2010 U.S. Senate bid was indeed shut down quick due to concern about potential damage her sister’s judicial race.

In other words: If

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Why is everyone trying to run Pat Meehan out of the governor’s race?

July 17, 2009 at 10:06 am

On the issue of Pat Meehan and why everyone seems to be trying to squeeze him out of the Republican gubernatorial primary: Why?

Ever since Arlen Specter switched parties, putting U.S. Senate candidate Pat Toomey at the top of the GOP ticket,

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Apparently, it takes a screwy state budget to bring out the candidates

July 14, 2009 at 2:09 pm

Welcome to the Keystone Kops version of pa2010.com. On this site, we are now devoting precious space to gubernatorial candidates who’ve jumped into the fray just as negotiations over the state budget have reached comically frustrating new dimensions.

Jim Gerlach wants in. Jack Wagner wants in. God bless them, really.

Gerlach, the Republican Congressman out of the 6th District, announced today that he won’t seek reelection. Instead, he wants to come back to the Capitol…

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Sestak vs. Specter: How much cash?

June 17, 2009 at 8:30 pm

Estimates are that Arlen Specter could spend as much as $15 million for his 2010 re-election bid—and those are on the conservative side. He already has more than $6 million in the bank, and with fundraisers now sanctioned by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, including the one in California last month and the one scheduled for New York June 30, Specter is working to build the war chest.

Meanwhile, Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7) sent another…

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Eyeing the mansion, Gerlach takes aim at Rendell’s tax-hike proposal

June 16, 2009 at 7:36 pm

Ed Rendell is still the Governor of Pennsylvania. In today’s edition of the The Patriot-News, I explored the way Keystone State policy politics

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Knox has message and money

June 2, 2009 at 11:32 pm

CORRECTION APPENDED (see bottom)

Only one man has declared himself a gubernatorial candidate for the 2010 Democratic primary. Oddly, pKnox, a wealthy businessman who finished second to Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in the 2007 Democratic primary, was in Harrisburg this week to start spreading the…

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Dinner with Arlen

May 29, 2009 at 6:19 pm

The pa href="http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20090512_Sen__Specter_says_hi_to_his_new_old_party.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.philly.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fdailynews%2Flocal%2F20090512_Sen__Specter_says_hi_to_his_new_old_party.html','Arlen+Specter%22s+coming+out+party.')"Arlen Specter’s coming out party./a/p
pGranted, the newly minted Democrat has had many coming out parties the last month, including his seniority-losing introduction to the Senate Democratic Caucus./p
pBut Specter has been settling down on the blue side of the aisle, which is explains how he rode President Obama’s coattails into a private fundraiser in Los Angeles. It’s not too many GOP bigwigs who get coverage in a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004241.html?categoryid=18&cs=1" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.variety.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.variety.com%2Farticle%2FVR1118004241.html%3Fcategoryid%3D18%26amp%3Bcs%3D1','Variety')">Variety.

Specter has also been meeting the past few weeks with Democratic leaders across the state, including Thursday’s face-time session with committee people from the southeast part of the state.

“County chairmen and other elected officials have been very supportive,” said

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Can Sestak make it a race?

May 27, 2009 at 6:43 pm

We assume the Talking Points Memo newsbreak about

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Corbett loses round to Meehan, sort of

May 27, 2009 at 5:53 pm

Let’s see: Vince Fumo was convicted this winter on all 137 charges brought against him by the office once run by pWhile Veon still faces more charges, that would appear to make Meehan the winner over state a href="http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.attorneygeneral.gov']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.attorneygeneral.gov%2F','Attorney+General+Tom+Corbett')" target="_blank">Attorney General Tom Corbett in the effort to bring down the unethical/obstructionist/criminal wheeler-dealing that goes on among Pennsylvania state legislators.

The word is, however, that while Meehan has had a tough time gaining traction, and that

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Frontrunner Toomey not looking behind him

May 20, 2009 at 2:44 pm

When he was in Harrisburg Monday for a Pennsylvania Press Club luncheon, Pat Toomey looked and acted like the candidate way out in front. He delivered a crisp rundown on why the economy is mess, even if he was a little short on specific solutions about how to right the course, other than saying the federal government was making a mistake by seizing so much control of the market.

And when he was done, Toomey…

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