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Tags: Bryan Lentz, Jim Schneller, PA-7, Pat MeehanLentz: 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 Democratic allies of Lentz helped the conservative get on the ballot. Lentz has refused to…
full storyAugust 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 Democrats helped put him there.
The challenge, 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 Patricia Wechsler and Ernest…
full storyAugust 9, 2010 at 5:02 pm | Comments (12)
Why Lentz’s silence doesn’t sit right
Bryan Lentz doesn’t want to comment on Jim Schneller’s nominating petitions. Not on Wednesday in Tinicum. Not 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…
full storyAugust 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 Democrats only helped him get on the 7th District ballot to further the election of their own candidate, he’s hitting back hard, and aiming in every direction.
In a long, meandering statement Thursday, Schneller’s said that reading coverage of the nominating petition fracas “has been an exercise in stomaching a half-baked accusation dressed up like a…
full storyAugust 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 Democratic insiders and activists made it possible for him to gain ballot access, Schneller said he didn’t know that some of the people who circulated nominating petitions on his…
full storyAugust 4, 2010 at 2:47 pm | Comments (8)
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…
full storyAugust 3, 2010 at 3:26 pm | Comments (47)
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 the Americans for Tax Reform pledge against raising taxes, a pledge signed by dozens…
full storyAugust 2, 2010 at 4:09 pm | Comments (11)
Meehan, Fitzpatrick get breakfast with Boehner
House Minority John Boehner is set for a busy two-day stretch in Pennsylvania this month, with a breakfast fundraiser for two of the state’s top GOP congressional candidates added to the schedule.
Boehner will headline the morning event at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Flourtown on Aug. 13 for Pat Meehan and Mike Fitzpatrick, according to a Republican familiar with the event. Meehan, who is running in the 7th District, and Fitzpatrick, who is running…
full storyAugust 2, 2010 at 12:37 pm | Comments (3)
LEFTOVERS: Corbett on Rendell, Sestak donates, headlines in the 7th
The drive to make the governor’s race a referendum on Ed Rendell continues for Tom Corbett. The GOP nominee this week cast the blame for the state’s unemployment rate squarely on the lame-duck Democratic governor’s shoulders.
“In the last eight years our state budget has gone from $22 billion to $28 billion,” Corbett said during an appearance in Chester County, according to The Morning Call. “And what’s…
full storyJuly 29, 2010 at 10:48 pm | Comments (9)
DCCC adds Callahan, Lentz to ad buy list
National Democrats have added two more competitive Pennsylvania House districts to the long list of races they are targeting for advertising buys in the coming months.
Politico reports that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is reserving airtime in both the 7th and 15th Districts. In the 7th, Democrat Bryan Lentz and Republican Pat Meehan are vying for the seat left open by incumbent Joe Sestak. In the 15th, White House recruit…
full storyJuly 28, 2010 at 10:45 am | Comments (8)
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