A Bonusgate doc, and a 7th District self-appraisal

Loyal readers will surely remember our coverage of pWe got some flak at the time, not surprisingly so. But we made one important promise: The Meehan campaign referenced a court document as evidence to back up its claims that Lentz…

August 13, 2010 at 1:18 pm | Comments (8)

Schneller will represent himself in ballot challenge

Jim Schneller is ready to go into court on his own.

The independent candidate in the 7th Congressional District told pa2010.com Thursday that he will serve as his own lawyer in fighting p“At least for the time being,” he said, “I intend to represent myself.”/p
pSchneller may have little choice but to do so; defending ballot challenges is expensive, and he has…

August 12, 2010 at 4:46 pm | Comments (13)

LEFTOVERS: Vets in the 10th, JoePa in the 11th, Tea Party (again) on the 7th

It was a day for veterans to speak out in the 10th Congressional District Tuesday.

First, incumbent Democrat Chris Carney rolled out his military-guy-supporters to speak out against Republican opponent Tom Marino. You might remember that full story

August 10, 2010 at 11:55 pm | Comments (5)

Lentz: Meehan feels ‘threatened’ by Schneller

Democrat Bryan Lentz on Tuesday called his Republican opponent’s ballot challenge against a third-party candidate “dishonest,” saying that independent Jim Schneller is a legitimate candidate who has left Republican Pat Meehan feeling “threatened.”

The comments from Lentz were some of his first substantive remarks about Schneller and Meehan since news broke that full story

August 10, 2010 at 4:21 pm | Comments (9)

Meehan camp brings ballot challenge against Schneller (Updated)

Two supporters of Republican Pat Meehan on Monday filed a ballot challenge against independent candidate Jim Schneller, trying to keep him off the ballot in the 7th Congressional District after pa href="http://www.pa2010.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Schneller-Ballot-Challenge.pdf" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http://www.pa2010.com']);return TrackClick("http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pa2010.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F08%2FSchneller-Ballot-Challenge.pdf','The+challenge')" target="_blank"The challenge/a, filed late Monday afternoon in Commonwealth Court, came after Meehan’s campaign spent a week reviewing Schneller’s nominating petitions. The campaign quickly confirmed that it is behind the challenge filed by…

August 9, 2010 at 5:02 pm | Comments (12)

Why Lentz’s silence doesn’t sit right

Bryan Lentz doesn’t want to comment on Thursday in Clifton Heights. Not if you call up his campaign on the phone.

Schneller, in case you missed the political story of the week, is the conservative, third-party candidate in the 7th Congressional District. He filed enough signatures to get on the ballot, but…

August 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm | Comments (15)

Schneller strikes back

Now that third-party candidate Jim Schneller has had a chance to absorb the idea that

August 6, 2010 at 10:29 am | Comments (11)

Schneller says he didn’t know circulators had ties to Lentz

Jim Schneller is having a tough time accepting the idea that Democrats helped get him on the ballot in the 7th Congressional District just to help election one of their own.

In some of his first public comments since news broke that

August 4, 2010 at 2:47 pm | Comments (9)

Lentz volunteer, other Dems helped Schneller get on the ballot

Getting on the ballot as a third-party candidate is exceedingly difficult in Pennsylvania. For 7th District hopeful Jim Schneller, it seems he couldn’t have done it without some help from Democrat Bryan Lentz and his supporters.

Several Lentz supporters and other local Democratic officials and activists circulated nominating petitions for Schneller, who is running on the American Congress Party ticket. The campaign of Lentz’s Republican opponent Pat Meehan was working Tuesday to document connections between…

August 3, 2010 at 3:26 pm | Comments (49)

FACT CHECK: Lentz uses debunked attack on tax policy

In voicing his support recently for a bill that aims to stop corporations from sending jobs overseas, Democrat Bryan Lentz made a damning claim about his Republican opponent: Pat Meehan, Lentz’s 7th District congressional campaign said, “opposes ending the tax loophole that benefits companies that send jobs overseas.”

Lentz’s campaign cited the fact that Meehan has signed full story

August 2, 2010 at 4:09 pm | Comments (11)