Meehan press aide returns for home stretch

The press secretary who worked on Republican Pat Meehan’s exploratory gubernatorial campaign last year has returned to handle media for the duration of the former U.S. Attorney’s congressional bid.

Virginia Davis, who is also an aide to former Senator Rick Santorum as he mulls a run for president, will be the campaign’s day-to-day spokesperson for the next two-and-a-half months. Davis worked on Santorum’s 2006 campaign, and took maternity leave from Meehan’s campaign shortly after he…

August 17, 2010 at 12:47 pm | Comments (1)

Lentz camp unveils new site hitting Meehan

Democrat Bryan Lentz’s congressional campaign is up with a new Web site that seeks to tell voters about his opponent’s “real record.”

The Web site, full story

August 16, 2010 at 12:30 pm | Comments (13)

Dean headlining fundraiser for Lentz, Trivedi

The Democratic Party’s liberal conscience is coming to southeast Pennsylvania next month to raise some campaign cash for Bryan Lentz and Manan Trivedi.

Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor, Democratic National Committee chairman and presidential candidate, will be in suburban Philadelphia on Sept. 22 for a joint fundraiser benefiting the two congressional candidates. The evening event is set to be held at state Senator Daylin Leach’s home in Wayne.

Trivedi is running in the 6th…

August 13, 2010 at 1:30 pm | Comments (6)

A Bonusgate doc, and a 7th District self-appraisal

Loyal readers will surely remember our coverage of pWe got some flak at the time, not surprisingly so. But we made one important promise: The Meehan campaign referenced a court document as evidence to back up its claims that Lentz…

August 13, 2010 at 1:18 pm | Comments (8)

Schneller will represent himself in ballot challenge

Jim Schneller is ready to go into court on his own.

The independent candidate in the 7th Congressional District told pa2010.com Thursday that he will serve as his own lawyer in fighting p“At least for the time being,” he said, “I intend to represent myself.”/p
pSchneller may have little choice but to do so; defending ballot challenges is expensive, and he has…

August 12, 2010 at 4:46 pm | Comments (13)

LEFTOVERS: Vets in the 10th, JoePa in the 11th, Tea Party (again) on the 7th

It was a day for veterans to speak out in the 10th Congressional District Tuesday.

First, incumbent Democrat Chris Carney rolled out his military-guy-supporters to speak out against Republican opponent Tom Marino. You might remember that full story

August 10, 2010 at 11:55 pm | Comments (5)

Lentz: Meehan feels ‘threatened’ by Schneller

Democrat Bryan Lentz on Tuesday called his Republican opponent’s ballot challenge against a third-party candidate “dishonest,” saying that independent Jim Schneller is a legitimate candidate who has left Republican Pat Meehan feeling “threatened.”

The comments from Lentz were some of his first substantive remarks about Schneller and Meehan since news broke that full story

August 10, 2010 at 4:21 pm | Comments (9)

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…

August 9, 2010 at 5:02 pm | Comments (12)

Why Lentz’s silence doesn’t sit right

Bryan Lentz doesn’t want to comment on Thursday in Clifton Heights. Not if you call up his campaign on the phone.

Schneller, in case you missed the political story of the week, is the conservative, third-party candidate in the 7th Congressional District. He filed enough signatures to get on the ballot, but…

August 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm | Comments (15)

Schneller strikes back

Now that third-party candidate Jim Schneller has had a chance to absorb the idea that

August 6, 2010 at 10:29 am | Comments (11)