Christie to campaign for Meehan again

For the second time this cycle, New Jersey Gov. Chis Christie is going to pitch in for his old colleague Pat Meehan.

Christie will headline a Sept. 20 fundraiser for Meehan, the GOP nominee in the 7th Congressional District. Both men were U.S. Attorneys in the Bush administration.

The evening event will be held at Springfield Country Club in the Delaware County district.

September 8, 2010 at 11:28 am | Comments (1)

AG’s office opens probe of Schneller’s petitions

Of the three candidates in the 7th Congressional District, two now find their nominating petitions under law enforcement scrutiny.

The state attorney general’s office has opened an investigation into independent Jim Schneller’s nominating papers. The investigation was spurred by a letter from an attorney representing supporters of Republican Pat Meehan.

Meehan’s nominating petitions are already being probed by the office for alleged fraud. His supporters recently full story

September 8, 2010 at 10:53 am | Comments (13)

Seeking Meehan’s removal, Schneller sues state officials

Fresh off pTo that end, the unusual candidate has done something decidedly unusual: he’s filed suit against Attorney General Tom Corbett and acting Secretary of State Basil Merenda. Schneller wants the Commonwealth Court to compel Corbett’s office to complete…

September 7, 2010 at 3:12 pm | Comments (12)

Schneller will be on the ballot; setback for Meehan

It’s officially a three-man contest in the 7th Congressional District.

A legal challenge seeking to keep independent Jim Schneller off the ballot was withdrawn from Commonwealth Court late Thursday, shortly after a judge issued a key ruling against supporters of Republican candidate Pat Meehan, full story

September 2, 2010 at 6:22 pm | Comments (16)

Lentz gave to Santorum in 2000

For almost a year, Democrat Bryan Lentz and his supporters have worked to equate his Republican opponent with former Senator Rick Santorum, the conservative who got washed out of office by the Democratic wave in 2006. Pat Meehan, Lentz’s rival in the 7th Congressional District, was a campaign manager for Santorum, and counts the former senator as a close supporter.

But Lentz, a two-term state Representative, was briefly a Santorum supporter himself—at least financially.

Lentz…

September 1, 2010 at 3:33 pm | Comments (8)

Lentz camp goes hypocritical… to cry hypocrisy?

A simple campaign press release had never made my jaw literally drop—until I saw what Democrat Bryan Lentz’s campaign laid on my table recently.

“Lentz Campaign Calls For Meehan to Try and Win Votes with Ideas, Not Courts,” the headline screamed.

This is, of course, a reference to the fact that Republican Pat Meehan’s campaign in the 7th Congressional District has full story

August 27, 2010 at 11:00 am | Comments (9)

Schneller wants in on the debate

Even as he fights a

August 26, 2010 at 12:31 pm | Comments (10)

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)

GOP hopefuls sign anti-climate tax pledge

Every Republican challenger in Pennsylvania’s competitive U.S. House race has now signed a pledge to oppose any climate legislation that raises taxes.

Pat Meehan, the Republican candidate in the 7th Congressional District, and Mike Fitzpatrick, the challenger in the 8th District, were the latest to sign the pledge from Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group founded by billionaire David Koch. The pledge commits candidates to oppose any climate change measure that “includes a net…

August 16, 2010 at 12:46 pm | Comments (10)

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)