Murphy calls for Rangel resignation

Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-8) on Thursday called for the resignation of Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY), saying that the ethical cloud hovering over the Ways & Means chairman was too great for him to remain in office.

“Today, I broke with my party and called on Congressman Rangel to resign his seat in Congress,” Murphy said in a statement. “Now that we’ve seen the full list of allegations by the House Ethics subcommittee, I believe the…

July 29, 2010 at 4:43 pm | Comments (2)

Boehner coming to raise cash for Burns

House Minority Leader John Boehner will make a trip to Johnstown next month to headline a fundraiser for Republican Tim Burns.

Boehner is scheduled to be in town on Aug. 12, a visit that comes after the wealthy businessman’s fundraising has slowed in the wake of his special election loss to Democrat Mark Critz. Boehner is also raising money for Congressman Charlie Dent (R-15) that week.

“John’s visit shows there is still a lot of…

July 29, 2010 at 1:45 pm | Comments (0)

Corbett campaign lit displayed on AG booth at county fair

A table set up by the attorney general's office at a recent county fair.

Campaign materials for Republican Tom Corbett's gubernatorial campaign were displayed at a booth set up by the attorney general's government office at a recent county fair in Troy. full story

July 29, 2010 at 11:46 am | Comments (27)

Burns cries foul over spending by a Critz ally

Wealthy GOP businessman Mark Pasquerilla made waves earlier this year when he backed Democrat Mark Critz over fellow Republican—and fellow millionaire—Tim Burns in the 12th District special election. Now, three months before now-Congressman Critz and Burns square off in a November rematch, Burns’ campaign is taking issue with the way Pasquerilla has spent his own money to boost Critz’s political prospects, charging that both men are effectively circumventing campaign finance laws.

Pasquerilla has already given…

July 29, 2010 at 11:18 am | Comments (7)

From the Blogs

LEFTOVERS: Toomey’s Christmas, Hoyer for Critz, Dahlkemper on jobs

by Dan Hirschhorn

Apparently it’s not too early to start laying out the Christmas presents. That’s what we heard from Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey on Wednesday, whose campaign rolled out full story

July 28, 2010 at 5:25 pm | Comments (0)

Trivedi makes a play on immigration

Democrat Manan Trivedi waded into the simmering immigration debate Wednesday, calling for stepped up investigations into companies that hire illegal workers and singling out a suburban Philadelphia industrial contractor that has been accused of the practice.

The statement from his campaign, coming as emotions on the immigration issue are running high, appeared to be Trivedi’s first play for moderate and even conservative voters since he won the 6th District primary in May. In doing so,…

July 28, 2010 at 4:42 pm | Comments (6)

From the Blogs

Corbett’s latest spin is more of the same

by Tammy Alonso

In the wake of his most recent “insights” about the state of employment in Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett insisted that, contrary to accusations made by Dan Onorato’s campaign, he was not blaming out-of work Pennsylvanians for the state’s unemployment rate.

Whatever you say, Tom.

In case you missed it, Corbett said there are plenty of jobs available to Pennsylvanians, after someone apparently either showed him the classified sections of a few newspapers…

July 28, 2010 at 3:51 pm | Comments (5)

Libertarian candidate in the 8th drops out

An actor who was hoping to run as a libertarian in the 8th Congressional District has decided to call it quits.

Eric Wisener told pa2010.com this week that he doesn’t have the grassroots support he needs to run against incumbent Democrat Patrick Murphy and Republican challenger Mike Fitzpatrick. Wisener insisted he has gathered enough signatures to get on the general election ballot, but said he doesn’t have enough of a political organization to mount a…

July 28, 2010 at 3:39 pm | Comments (2)

Towne blames 9/11 on American foreign policy

Grilled by a conservative talk show host Wednesday morning, the independent candidate in the 15th Congressional District blamed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on American foreign policy in the Middle East.

“They’re not attacking us because we’re free or we wear blue jeans or we listen to rock music,” Jake Towne said. “They’re attacking us because we’ve been over there. We’ve had troops in Saudi Arabia for many years before that. We were engaged with…

July 28, 2010 at 3:35 pm | Comments (14)