Malvern consultant managing Buchanan’s campaign

Republican Mary Beth Buchanan has a new campaign manager.

Mike Walsh, who has worked on the early campaigns for Rick Santorum and Tom Ridge, started running Buchanan’s campaign early last week. Buchanan, a former U.S. Attorney,

April 29, 2010 at 5:43 pm | Comments (2)

Meakem endorses Rothfus in 4th Distrct

Prominent talk-show host and Pittsburgh entrepreneur Glen Meakem on Thursday endorsed Republican Keith Rothfus for Congress in the 4th District, lending still more credibility and momentum to the insurgent’s primary bid against former U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan.

Meakem, whose name was briefly floated as a Senate candidate last year, is well-known in western Pennsylvania for the conservative talk show he hosts and for his role a civic leader wealthy from founding businesses in start-up…

April 29, 2010 at 3:12 pm | Comments (0)

The new GOP generation?

I don’t live in the 4th Congressional District, but I am near enough to get an up-close-and-personal view of what transpires amongst the candidates, including

April 25, 2010 at 11:25 am | Comments (5)

Rothfus ad pokes fun at Buchanan’s ‘shut up’ moment

In case anyone forgot that former U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan pKeith Rothfus, an attorney who turned some heads by a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2010/04/rothfus-outraises-buchanan-in-4th-district-altmire-has-almost-1-2m/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2F2010%2F04%2Frothfus-outraises-buchanan-in-4th-district-altmire-has-almost-1-2m%2F','besting+Buchanan+in+fundraising+last+quarter')" target="_blank"besting Buchanan in fundraising last quarter/a, uses the 45-second spot to say that “we need representatives who listen to us,” juxtaposing that with Buchanan’s less-than-memorable media moment./p
pemEarly Returns 2.0/em a href="http://earlyreturns.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=380:shut-up-a-let-me-talk&catid=53:post-gazette-staff&Itemid=34" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://earlyreturns.sites.post-gazette.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fearlyreturns.sites.post-gazette.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26amp%3Bview%3Darticle%26amp%3Bid%3D380%3Ashut-up-a-let-me-talk%26amp%3Bcatid%3D53%3Apost-gazette-staff%26amp%3BItemid%3D34','reports')" target="_blank">reports that the Rothfus campaign plans to run the ad on TV in the district at some point before the May 18 primary.

April 20, 2010 at 2:20 pm | Comments (8)

Rothfus outraises Buchanan in 4th District; Altmire has almost $1.2M (Updated)

Former U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan is widely seen as the GOP front-runner in the 4th Congressional District. But she got into the race late, and she might need to step up her fundraising pace to get past Republican Keith Rothfus.

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April 15, 2010 at 7:24 pm | Comments (1)

Altmire touts conservative credentials

Congressman Jason Altmire (D-4) last week was hyping an independent study that describes his voting record as right-of-center, underscoring that the sophomore Democrat seems to have escaped a serious primary challenge and can begin looking to his right flank.

In an e-mail Friday, Altmire’s office highlighted

February 28, 2010 at 3:58 pm | Comments (6)

Buchanan makes it official (Updated)

After months of

February 17, 2010 at 5:20 pm | Comments (4)

Waiting for Mary Beth Buchanan

By almost every account, pSo where is former U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan?/p
pApparently, taking her time before getting into a 4th Congressional District race where she will immediately be the Republican front-runner to take on sophomore Democrat Jason Altmire. One party leader who spoke with her a few days ago said Buchanan will finally take the plunge within a couple weeks./p
p“Ms. Buchanan has given me a time frame of two weeks in which she will make her announcement,” Allegheny County GOP chairman Jim Roddey said. “She has been going around to all the Republican committees, making presentations about her campaign, but as far as I know she hasn’t been more specific about her announcement.”/p
pBut Buchanan is “definitely committed,” Roddey added./p
pCourting the media can apparently wait. About half-a-dozen e-mail messages have gone unanswered, a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_664411.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pittsburghlive.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pittsburghlive.com%2Fx%2Fpittsburghtrib%2Fnews%2Fpittsburgh%2Fs_664411.html','though+she+did+speak+to+The+Tribune-Review+once+last+week.')" target="_blank">though she did speak to The Tribune-Review once last week.

Edgeworth lawyer Keith Rothfus is already seeking the party’s nomination, but Roddey said he wouldn’t pose much of a challenge to the well-known Buchanan. Rothfus finished 2009 with about $37,000 on hand, including $25,000 he loaned the campaign, according to

February 2, 2010 at 3:00 pm | Comments (2)

Altmire, Murphy get Republican opponents

Two sophomore House Democrats have now seen their first 2010 Republican challengers formally come forward.

Pittsburgh lawyer Keith Rothfus, a former official at the Department of Homeland Security, announced Tuesday that he had filed paperwork to run against Congressman Jason Altmire in the 4th District. And Warrington computer consultant Jeffrey Schott told pa2010.com that he is running against Congressman Patrick Murphy in the 8th District.

Altmire is in a district that the GOP has badly…

September 29, 2009 at 5:40 pm | Comments (4)