LEFTOVERS: More F&M numbers, CQ forecasts, Onorato on revenue

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August 26, 2010 at 4:56 pm | Comments (5)

LEFTOVERS: Trivedi strikes back, Rendell the pundit, get ready to laugh

The feuding continued Monday in the 6th Congressional District, when Democrat Manan Trivedi rounded up some military veterans to speak out against Congressman Jim Gerlach (R-6) in a new Web video.

You might remember that last week Gerlach called out Trivedi for not having lived in the suburban Philadelphia district for years. For some of that time, Trivedi was a Navy doctor in Iraq. So Trivedi’s campaign called it a slight against his military service.…

August 9, 2010 at 10:15 pm | Comments (3)

LEFTOVERS: Corbett on Rendell, Sestak donates, headlines in the 7th

The drive to p“In the last eight years our state budget has gone from $22 billion to $28 billion,” Corbett said during an appearance in Chester County, a href="http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-corbett-unemployment-0729-20100728,0,7910314.story" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.mcall.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcall.com%2Fnews%2Fbreaking%2Fmc-corbett-unemployment-0729-20100728%2C0%2C7910314.story','according+to+The+Morning+Call.')" target="_blank"according to emThe Morning Call/em./a “And what’s…

July 29, 2010 at 10:48 pm | Comments (10)

LEFTOVERS: Rendell on Obama, Gerlach gives to NRCC, vulnerable seats

President Obama is about to go on “The View”—but Gov. Ed Rendell thinks that’s not such a good idea because the president should only do “serious shows.”

“I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren’t pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency,” Rendell said on MSNBC‘s “Morning Joe.”

We’re assuming Rendell’s rule doesn’t apply to governors, considering that the former Philadelphia mayor is…

July 27, 2010 at 3:44 pm | Comments (7)

Rendell: Corbett is ‘totally out of touch’

Gov. Ed Rendell joined the rest of his party in criticizing Attorney General Tom Corbett’s much-publicized pRendell’s comments, a href="http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/07/gov_ed_rendell_blasts_gop_gube.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pennlive.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pennlive.com%2Fmidstate%2Findex.ssf%2F2010%2F07%2Fgov_ed_rendell_blasts_gop_gube.html','reported+by+The+Patriot-News')" target="_blank"reported by emThe Patriot-News/em/a, came more than a week after Corbett said that “the jobs are there” and that some unemployed are staying jobless to collect…

July 20, 2010 at 7:00 am | Comments (5)

GOP tries to hang Rendell around Onorato’s neck

If there were any doubts about how Republicans want to define the race for governor, they were recently laid to rest: The GOP wants to make the contest a referendum on Gov. Ed Rendell, and to tie Democratic nominee to the unpopular, term-limited governor at every turn.

That strategy, already an obvious choice for months, burst into clear view during the state party’s summer dinner in Hershey last month. Speakers at the dinner excoriated the…

July 1, 2010 at 1:37 pm | Comments (4)

Rendell: Onorato is the ‘underdog’

Gov. Ed Rendell still thinks that the race to succeed him is Tom Corbett’s to lose.

The term-limited Rendell had already once said that Corbett, the Republican Attorney General, is “probably the favorite” in the race against Democrat Dan Onorato. In

June 30, 2010 at 4:49 pm | Comments (8)

State GOP head wants ‘Jobgate’ answers

Jobgate continues, and the latest “target” is Gov. Ed Rendell.

State GOP chairman Rob Gleason has filed a Right-to-Know request seeking any correspondence between Rendell and White House officials that pertains to the White House’s efforts to keep Joe Sestak out of the Democratic Senate primary. The White House and Sestak have said that former President Bill Clinton was dispatch only to dangle an unpaid position. Rendell has said he spoke with White House chief…

June 18, 2010 at 5:07 pm | Comments (16)

LEFTOVERS: Toomey on Kagan, Rendell on Sesak, the Chamber for Dent

Republican Senate hopeful Pat Toomey supported President Obama’s first Supreme Court pick. He hasn’t made up his mind about the second.

After backing Sonia Sotomayor last year, Toomey said he’s withholding judgment until taking in her confirmation hearings. “Every once in a while it would be refreshing if politicians did less talking and more listening,” Toomey p“I have an open mind about her nomination,” he added./p
pMeanwhile, we’ve got more post-primary commentary from Gov. Ed Rendell, who also says Senate nominee Joe Sestak and the White House should be more forward about Sestak’s famed claim of a job offer, which just won’t seem to die. He a href="http://blogs.mcall.com/penn_ave/2010/05/gov-rendell-wants-white-house-sestak-to-detail-job-offer.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://blogs.mcall.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.mcall.com%2Fpenn_ave%2F2010%2F05%2Fgov-rendell-wants-white-house-sestak-to-detail-job-offer.html','told+reporters+in+Harrisburg')" target="_blank"told reporters in Harrisburg/a that “the White House and Joe Sestak should be a little more detailed and put this behind them.” But he also said he was confident nothing illegal happened and that such political jockeying has been “going on for decades.” emCapitol Ideas/em also flagged a href="http://blogs.mcall.com/capitol_ideas/2010/05/on-msnbc-toomey-keeps-beating-sestak-job-offer-drum.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://blogs.mcall.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.mcall.com%2Fcapitol_ideas%2F2010%2F05%2Fon-msnbc-toomey-keeps-beating-sestak-job-offer-drum.html','this+TV+appearance')" target="_blank">this TV appearance in which Toomey again weighed in on the matter.

May 26, 2010 at 11:29 pm | Comments (1)

Rendell loves The Campaign Group—but still hates the ad

PHILADELPHIA—Gov. Ed Rendell sure had a lot to say about The Campaign Group in the days before and after last week’s Senate primary. To any cable pundits that would listen, Rendell would say the Philadelphia-based consulting shop, which counts him as a client, was basically the only reason Joe Sestak stood on the precipice of victory. He would call it “my ad agency,” and say hiring media gurus Neil Oxman, Doc Sweitzer and J.J. Balaban…

May 23, 2010 at 3:36 pm | Comments (18)