Tag: Larry Murphy
Tags: Joe Vodvarka, Larry Murphy, Robert TownsendSENATE UNDERDOG UPDATE: A new Dem candidate, a GOPer goes indie
It turns out that the Democratic primary for Senate is still a three-person race.
Yes, political junkies, there’s a candidate out there who no one’s talking about. His name is
full storyMarch 1, 2010 at 2:30 pm | Comments (10)
Where are the blacks and women?
Only a few months ago, American was in the midst of an election cycle featuring two trailblazing candidates. The first black major-party nominee for president and the first female vice-presidential candidate on the GOP side. This after the future president and another groundbreaking woman slugged it out in a touch Democratic primary.
But even after all that’s happened on a national level, politics in the Keystone State in many ways remains a white male sport.…
full storyMay 4, 2009 at 8:32 am | Comments (1)
Luksik: I was here first
In the weeks leading up to Republican Pat Toomey’s announcement that he would run for Senate, Peg Luksik, who had already declared her candidacy, made it abundantly clear what she thought of conservative sentiment that she should step aside in favor of Toomey, widely considered the more viable candidate.
“I’m running,” she told pa2010.com recently, before Toomey had entered the race. “If [Toomey] wants to get in on top of me and split the vote,…
full storyApril 23, 2009 at 10:35 am | Comments (2)
A Republican who’s not afraid of Limbaugh
Larry Murphy has strong feelings about Rush Limbaugh.
“Rush Limbaugh is a racist, he’s a cancer to the Republican Party and he should be excised,” pThose aren’t unusual sentiments. But what is unusual is hearing them from a Republican candidate for office. Republicans far and wide have been a id="lzj-" title="prostrating themselves" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19517.html" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.politico.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F0309%2F19517.html','prostrating+themselves')" target="_blank"prostrating themselves/a before Limbaugh in recent months, who has been effective at leveraging his massive conservative audience into allegiance from elected officials in the party. But Murphy, an underdog Republican candidate for Senate, says Limbaugh can’t be the voice of the party./p
p“My opponents are afraid to say that,” Murphy, told empa2010.com /emrecently./p
pHe’s got a point. Incumbent Senator Arlen Specter, working hard to court the party’s conservative base ahead of a grueling primary next year, recently said of Limbaugh: “I like him.”/p
pMurphy, by far the least known of the four Republican Senate candidates, has such a low profile that it’s unlikely he’ll get caught up in the apologize-to-Rush game that has snagged his more prominent colleagues in recent months. But he’s also clearly hoping his stance against Limbaugh will bolster his credentials as a more independent Republican./p
p“People like Rush and [radio host] Laura Ingraham, they’re really destroying our party, and we need to wake up and see that,” Murphy said, adding that his would be a “different kind of Republican candidacy.”/p
p“It’s not going to mean-hearted, it’s not going to be sound bites,” he said./p
pFormer Congressman Pat Toomey and conservative activist Peg Luksik are also running against Specter in next year’s primary./p
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Republican Senate candidate Larry Murphy
April 23, 2009 at 10:02 am | Comments (41)
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