Philly Mayor Nutter to headline Lentz fundraiser

State Representative Bryan Lentz’s (D-Delaware) congressional campaign will get a boost from Philadelphia’s top elected official next week, when Mayor Michael Nutter headlines a fundraiser for Lentz in Swarthmore.

The campaign told supporters about the Dec. 1 fundraiser in an e-mail Tuesday. The campaign is asking for a minimum donation of $250. “Hosts” are asked to kick in $1,000 and co-hosts are asked for $500.

The fundraiser comes one day before New Jersey Gov.-elect full story

November 24, 2009 at 5:31 pm | Comments (9)

Christie to headline fundraisers for Meehan

New Jersey Governor-elect Chris Christie will headline two fundraisers next month for his former colleague Pat Meehan, lending the 7th District hopeful the prestige of the latest big Republican win.

Christie, who beat incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine earlier this month and was a U.S. Attorney with Meehan, will be at a big-dollar fundraiser for Meehan Dec. 2 at the Union League in downtown Philadelphia, a campaign official said. Later that evening, he’ll appear at a…

November 16, 2009 at 11:22 am | Comments (8)

Lentz: ‘I will always put your interests ahead of the special interests’ (Video)

State Representative Bryan Lentz (D-Delaware) formally declared his candidacy for Congress in the 7th District Thursday, as the Democratic front-runner to succeed incumbent Joe Sestak said that people are “legitimately frustrated” by the federal government and promised to fight for job creation on Main Street.

At an American Legion post in Upper Darby, Lentz—who has been gearing up his campaign for a few months—reflected on his upbringing in southeastern Pennsylvania, his military service, his time…

November 12, 2009 at 1:30 pm | Comments (18)

Meehan, Welch get on NRCC’s ‘Young Guns’ list

They both might be bullets of a candidate, but only one of them is really young.

Regardless of age, Republicans Pat Meehan and Steven Welch were both recently added to the National Republican Congressional Committee’s “Young Guns” program. Their addition does not imply a formal endorsement, but rather signifies that the candidates have met a variety of organizational and fundraising benchmarks in building a strong campaign.

Welch, the wealthy young entrepreneur, is running in the…

October 27, 2009 at 4:34 pm | Comments (2)

6th and 7th districts now forecasted as tossups

Those chaotic House races in the 6th and 7th Districts are now rated as tossups by our friends at CQ Politics, a change from the earlier forecast of leaning Democratic that reflects the perceived strengths of Republicans Steven Welch and Pat Meehan.

Both seats, the former being left open by Jim Gerlach and the latter by Joe Sestak, had been seen as tilting in the Democrats’ favor. But with Welch spending heavily…

October 26, 2009 at 2:58 pm | Comments (8)

Lentz bashes Metcalfe ‘traitor’ remark… and asks for money

It didn’t long take after state Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) attacked veterans who support climate change legislation for someone to use his remarks as fodder in a fundraising e-mail.

Metcalfe had called “any veteran” supporting such a bill a “traitor to the oath he or she took defend the Constitution of our great nation!”

So State Representative Bryan Lentz (D-Delaware), an Iraq war veteran who is running for Congress in the 7th District, e-mailed supporters…

October 21, 2009 at 11:08 pm | Comments (7)

3 lessons learned and 3 questions raised in the 3rd quarter (Updated)

The numbers are in, digested and covered to death.

So with third quarter FEC reports squarely in the rear-view mirror, pa2010.com returns to the big picture. With that in mind, we offer up the most important lessons learned from the early fundraising hauls, along with the questions still to be answered.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Joe Sestak has work to do. The fact that the Democratic Senate hopeful saw his fundraising slow down during…

October 19, 2009 at 1:53 pm | Comments (14)

5 fun facts from the 3rd quarter

A few days after third quarter campaign finance reports were published, here’s a handful of interesting items that jumped out at us.

1. Why spend money when you’ve barely started running? Republican 7th District candidate Pat Meehan, only 16 days into his campaign when the third quarter closed Sept. 30, didn’t have to. The former U.S. Attorney spent a paltry $607, records show. Most of it was for processing online contributions, and…

October 19, 2009 at 11:00 am | Comments (1)

How Pat Meehan raked in some fast cash

In seeking to quickly demonstrate the political potency of his Congressional bid, former U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan tapped his extensive connections within the legal community, maxing out a large number of donors early as he took just 16 days to raise a sum that almost equaled what his likely Democratic opponent took several weeks to pile up.

Meehan, a Republican who had been planning to run for governor before opting for a House bid in…

October 18, 2009 at 8:53 pm | Comments (13)

Source: Meehan raised $200K in 16 days (Updated)

Former U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan raised more than $200,000 in just over two weeks after formally announcing his Congressional candidacy last month, a source close to the campaign told pa2010.com.

Meehan got into the 7th Congressional District race Sept. 14, with Republican leaders seeming to clear the field for him to set up one of the most competitive House races in the country. In the 16 days between then and the close of the FEC’s…

October 6, 2009 at 12:32 pm | Comments (14)