5 fun facts from the 3rd quarter

A few days after third quarter campaign finance reports were published, here’s a handful of interesting items that jumped out at us.

1. Why spend money when you’ve barely started running? Republican 7th District candidate Pat Meehan, only 16 days into his campaign when the third quarter closed Sept. 30, didn’t have to. The former U.S. Attorney spent a paltry $607, full story

October 19, 2009 at 11:00 am | Comments (1)

With hire, it seems more and more likely that Dems will clear the field for Pike

MIDDLE OF NOWEHERE, CANADA—Still writing from a lake you can barely find on Google Earth, but as you can see, the news never stops at pa2010.com.

I was intrigued to see that Doug Pike’s Congressional campaign has

June 23, 2009 at 7:16 pm | Comments (3)

Pike hires trio of consulting firms for 6th District run

Democrat Doug Pike, a former Philadelphia Inquirer editorial writer, has hired three political consulting firms—including the company run in part by Neil Oxman, a longtime strategist for Gov. Ed Rendell—for /a/p
pa href="http://www.campaigngroup.tv/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.campaigngroup.tv']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.campaigngroup.tv%2F','The+Campaign+Group')" target="_blank"The Campaign Group/a, which Oxman runs with Doc Sweitzer and J.J. Balaban, will advise the Pike campaign and produce its radio and television ads. Philadelphia native Jef Pollock’s a href="http://www.globalstrategygroup.com/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.globalstrategygroup.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalstrategygroup.com%2F','Global+Strategy+Group')" target="_blank">Global Strategy Group will conduct polls for the campaign. pThe Campaign Group was recently working for Democrat Joe Torsella’s a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2009/05/report-torsella-to-bow-out-of-senate-race/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2F2009%2F05%2Freport-torsella-to-bow-out-of-senate-race%2F','aborted+Senate+run')" target="_blank"aborted Senate run/a, is working for gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato and helped elect Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. Oxman this week topped empa2010.com/em‘s list of the Commonwealth’s a href="http://www.pa2010.com/2009/06/pa2010coms-top-10-political-consultants/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fpa2010coms-top-10-political-consultants%2F','Top+10+Political+Consultants')" target="_blank">Top 10 Political Consultants.

June 23, 2009 at 4:54 pm | Comments (6)

pa2010.com’s Best-Dressed Political Consultants

A day after we presented our

June 23, 2009 at 10:00 am | Comments (8)

pa2010.com’s Top 10 Political Consultants

They’re the people pulling the political strings behind campaigns. The people who get politicians elected. The people journalists love to quote, even if they’re not exactly unbiased. They’re the people behind the scenes.

They are the Keystone State’s political consultants.

Few figures are as important to the inside-baseball game of politics we love to talk about here at pa2010.com. With that in mind, we present our first ever Top 10 Political Consultants.

In many ways,…

June 22, 2009 at 8:30 am | Comments (17)

Oxman downplays importance of Rendell’s support

Neil Oxman, the longtime political strategist who has been close to Gov. Ed Rendell for years, is now in the awkward position of having to say that his old boss actually doesn’t matter much.

Oxman is working for Democrat Joe Torsella, who now has to face newly-Democratic Senator Arlen Specter in next year’s primary. Torsella had been seen as Rendell’s favored candidate, but now most assume he’ll back Specter.

In an interview with Politico, Oxman…

April 28, 2009 at 5:47 pm | Comments (0)