Kaine stumping for Trivedi

The top man in the Democratic Party is coming to Pennsylvania to pitch in for congressional hopeful Manan Trivedi.

Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine will be in Philadelphia Thursday, where he will headline a fundraiser for the 6th District candidate before he joins a meeting of local Asian-American leaders. For Kaine, it’s part of a tour he’s doing to help Asian-American and Indian-American candidates. Kaine will also be joined by Congressman Mike Honda (D-Calif.),…

September 1, 2010 at 9:12 am | Comments (7)

LEFTOVERS: Sestak & earmarks, Casey does SEPA, Marino on tape

Democrat Joe Sestak found himself under new scrutiny on that pesky subject of earmarks Monday, after The Morning Call reported that money Sestak earmarked for a non-profit foundation could instead end up benefiting a for-profit wind energy company.

At issue is $350,000 requested for the Thomas Paine Foundation, money to develop a new prototype, offshore wind turbine. The money was never actually appropriated, but long story short, the head of the…

August 30, 2010 at 7:23 pm | Comments (5)

LEFTOVERS: More F&M numbers, CQ forecasts, Onorato on revenue

The Franklin & Marshall College poll released Thursday didn’t just show Republicans leading in both of Pennsylvania’s statewide races. The survey also contained a litany of troubling data points for Democrats a couple months before Election Day.

Among the troublesome signs for Democrats:

•Almost 60 percent of Pennsylvanians say the state is heading in the wrong direction, while the 30 percent of residents who say things are moving in the right…

August 26, 2010 at 4:56 pm | Comments (4)

LEFTOVERS: Corbett hits back, CQ on Kanjo cash, endorsements & jobs in the 6th

The nonstop tax attacks from Democrat Dan Onorato must finally be getting under gubernatorial rival Tom Corbett’s skin, because his campaign, which ordinarily doesn’t seem so concerned with winning the daily news cycle, is starting to throw a couple punches back here or there.

After Onorato spent a second consecutive day hitting Corbett on the subject of taxes, Corbett’s campaign e-mailed reporters a list Wednesday of all…

August 25, 2010 at 9:12 pm | Comments (0)

Pols chime in on Iraq

With Thursday marking the official withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq, Pennsylvania’s political candidates were issuing the expected stream of statements.

“I think people will look back at this war as an unnecessary one,” Democrat Joe Sestak, the former Navy Admiral and current Senate candidate, said on MSNBC. “One that we unfortunately harmed our national security fabric as we have lost our focus where the real challenge was and that was in Afghanistan where we…

August 20, 2010 at 9:20 am | Comments (16)

LEFTOVERS: More Toomey stuff, Cook on the 8th & 10th, vets for Gerlach

You know that enduring image of a room full of monkeys on typewriters? Well, somewhere in Washington, the Democratic Party must have a roomful of monkeys looking back at every word Pat Toomey ever said as a congressman.

OK, not that research interns are monkeys. But the party is obviously working hard on this, because it keeps dredging up old videos of the Republican Senate nominee talking about derivatives. We already reported on full story

August 18, 2010 at 11:46 pm | Comments (11)

Conservative group running ads in five Pa. districts

A prominent conservative group launched a major advertising campaign this week to decry congressional spending—and five competitive House races in Pennsylvania are among the group’s targets.

The ad from Americans for Prosperity decries last year’s economic stimulus package as wasteful spending. It was already seen airing in the 3rd Congressional District this week, where incumbent Democrat Kathy Dahlkemper’s campaign was quick to push back with an e-mail to supporters.

How much is being spent for…

August 18, 2010 at 11:08 am | Comments (2)

Dean headlining fundraiser for Lentz, Trivedi

The Democratic Party’s liberal conscience is coming to southeast Pennsylvania next month to raise some campaign cash for Bryan Lentz and Manan Trivedi.

Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor, Democratic National Committee chairman and presidential candidate, will be in suburban Philadelphia on Sept. 22 for a joint fundraiser benefiting the two congressional candidates. The evening event is set to be held at state Senator Daylin Leach’s home in Wayne.

Trivedi is running in the 6th…

August 13, 2010 at 1:30 pm | Comments (6)

Don’t sanitize in the 6th

A recent story here on pa2010.com reported that 6th District Democratic candidate Manan Trivedi was making “a play on immigration.”

But that’s a bit misleading.

Making a play, to me, involves being on the offensive and forging fertile ground for votes. Certainly, having a stance on immigration helps define the candidate to the electorate, but despite what any politicos may want to say, Trivedi’s statement on the issue is as inoffensive…

August 11, 2010 at 1:28 pm | Comments (0)

LEFTOVERS: Trivedi strikes back, Rendell the pundit, get ready to laugh

The feuding continued Monday in the 6th Congressional District, when Democrat Manan Trivedi rounded up some military veterans to speak out against Congressman Jim Gerlach (R-6) in a new Web video.

You might remember that last week Gerlach called out Trivedi for not having lived in the suburban Philadelphia district for years. For some of that time, Trivedi was a Navy doctor in Iraq. So Trivedi’s campaign called it a slight against his military service.…

August 9, 2010 at 10:15 pm | Comments (3)