12th District notes: Joyce Murtha out, Critz and Cernic in (Updated)

A few more 12th District pieces came into focus Monday.

The Fix pMeanwhile, emCQ Politics/em a href="http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2010/02/top-murtha-staffer-likely-to-r.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://blogs.cqpolitics.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.cqpolitics.com%2Feyeon2010%2F2010%2F02%2Ftop-murtha-staffer-likely-to-r.html','reports')" target="_blank"reports/a that Murtha’s district director Mark Critz will soon enter the race, adding a candidate intimately familiar with the district into the mix. Former Cambria County Controller Albert Penska also might run./p
pAnd emThe Tribune-Democrat/em a href="http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_053104525.html?keyword=topstory" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.tribune-democrat.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tribune-democrat.com%2Flocal%2Flocal_story_053104525.html%3Fkeyword%3Dtopstory','reports')" target="_blank">reports that Cambria County Controller Ed Cernic Jr., who had been considering a run, is good to go, having announced his candidacy Monday morning.

With only a couple Republicans definitely running, the Democratic side of the ballot is shaping up to be to be a much more crowded affair—at least five Democrats have said they’re in the race.

UPDATE: In a statement Monday…

February 22, 2010 at 3:00 pm | Comments (9)