Pennsylvanians and Americans Voted For a Democratic U.S. House—So Why Do Republicans Still Hold Huge Majorities?
Pennsylvania in 2012, Source: Think Progress In spite of misleading polls released before the election which showed the race close or even tied, President Obama easily won the state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday night. The same cannot be said, however, of the commonwealth’s Democratic Congresspeople. Democrats will hold only five of the state’s 18 congressional...
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DAILY GRINDER: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Off Philly TV
They send this in their emails. The national Democratic Party—specifically, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or as I like to call them, “D-Trip,” are not going out of their way to help their candidates in the Philadelphia area with TV ads, which is why it’s basically only Tom Smith for Senate and Americans for Prosperity (against...
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How the EPA Is Creating a Political Firestorm in Philly and Pennsylvania
As Mayor Michael Nutter’s national star continues to rise, Philadelphia is being touted as an extraordinarily ‘Green’ city by a federal agency that’s quickly become the most polarizing under President Barack Obama: The Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA just designated Philadelphia a “Green Power Community.” They note we’re the largest city...
Continue Reading‘Occupy’ Candidate Nathan Kleinman Withdraws from Ballot
Nathan Kleinman, a member of Occupy Philly and congressional candidate for Pennsylvania’s 13th District, faced perhaps the largest hurdle in his run against Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz this morning. Schwartz recently challenged Kleinman’s 1,500+ signatures to get on the ballot and a hearing was held today to hear Kleinman’s motion to dismiss the...
Continue ReadingFirst ‘Occupy Candidate’ Comes from Occupy Philly
Politico is reporting right now that 29-year-old Occupy Philadelphia member Nathan Kleinman will be the first member of the Occupy movement to run for Congress this fall, against Rep. Allyson Schwartz, a Democrat who represents Pennsylvania’s 13th District — the Philly suburbs and parts of the Northeast. Via Politico: Kleinman, who refers to himself...
Continue ReadingWikipedia to go Dark Tomorrow Over SOPA and PIPA
There’s a bill working its way through Congress that has the potential to ruin the Internet as you know it. Maybe. It’s called the Stop Online Piracy Act, and it will ruin everything you ever knew—and loved—about Internet memes. And video. And embedding stuff. Basically, it could change everything that makes the Web a great place to waste a few minutes,...
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Pennsylvania Democratic Party Raising Money on Republican Redistricting
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party is using the recently-redrawn congressional maps to raise money—no surprise there. In a recent email sent out to supporters, Kevin Washo, Executive Director of the PA Dems, says there’s a “silver lining” to the recent change in boundaries. “[T]he lines of the district wind all over the state and split up...
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As Redistricting Passes House, Philly Cut to 3 Districts; Check out this Street-View Map
Every ten years, there’s mass-hysteria from the state minority party about redistricting, mostly because they have little-to-no say over the final map’s passage, and sometimes one or more of their districts get Nagasaki’d, metaphorically speaking. That was certainly the case this year (two western PA Democrats have been drawn into the same district),...
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With Obama Prepared to Sign, Pennsylvania Senators Get ‘TwitterBombed’ over Defense Bill
Image: Shutterstock President Barack Obama said yesterday he was backpeddling on his months-long threat to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, which, many contend, gives the U.S. military the right to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens as part of the war on terror. As we’ve noted, both Pennsylvania senators Bob Casey and Pat Toomey not only voted in...
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Pat Toomey on the Supercommittee ‘Superfail’
As we reported yesterday, Congress’ supercommittee turned out to be a not-so-surprising superfailure due to the series of mishaps that led to its beginnings. Among those: Anti-tax pledges politicians signed away to anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist; John Boehner’s numerous walk-outs when Republicans had what at any other point in history could be called a “Republican...
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