DAILY GRINDER: Nutter Gets Involved in Romney T-shirt Flap at ‘Un-American’ School
She wasn't wearing these. But they exist. And that's weird. In case you missed it: A teacher at Charles Carroll High School in Port Richmond is accused of ridiculing one of her students, Samantha Pawlucy, in class for wearing a Mitt Romney t-shirt on ‘Dress down day.’ According to the Inquirer, “Gaymon pointed out the shirt in class, then went...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Libertarian Party Hits Back at Republicans Over Ballot Access
An attorney for Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is attempting to turn the tables on the entire Pennsylvania third party system—by suing the Republicans back. Alicia Dearn, who represents Johnson’s campaign, emailed District Attorney Seth Williams this week regarding concerns over the legal challenge to their campaign. Specifically, the idea...
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DAILY GRINDER: Apocalypse Romney
What part of Romney’s campaign saying they’re not going to let fact-checkers stand in their way didn’t Obama understand? Most of the Washington garbage heap are saying Romney won last night’s debate—and who cares he didn’t offer any substance? He was nuts. The Obama campaign responded by sending out scores of “Fact checks” last night—and...
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DAILY GRINDER: PA GOP Says Romney ‘Can Be Anything You Want Him To Be’
Pennsylvania GOP Chairman has been ripping into everyone lately over the commonly-held wisdom that Mitt Romney will not with the commonwealth on November 6th. In a recent interview, he addresses the candidate’s modest ad buys, polling which shows the candidate down 8-12 points, internal GOP polling that shows Romney within a point of Obama, and the Romney campaign...
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DAILY GRINDER: Judge Says He May Block Voter ID Law
Commonwealth Court Judge Robert E. Simpson “hints” he may block the Pennsylvania voter ID law this time around. And by hints, I of course mean he flat-out said it. “I’m giving you a heads-up,” he told lawyers after yesterday’s testimony, according to the Inquirer, “I think it’s a possibility there could be an injunction here.” Gov....
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DAILY GRINDER: Nutter Speaking at Shale Gas Insight Meeting This Morning [UPDATED w/Remarks]
According to his public schedule, Mayor Nutter “will give welcoming remarks at the Marcellus Shale Coalition’s second annual conference in Philadelphia” at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (By the time you’re reading this, he’s probably done.) Yesterday, several hundred anti-fracking activists marched against the conference, because that’s...
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Romney Slammed in Philly Over Train Platform
If you’re like us, you spend most of your time staring at clocks just waiting for 2030 to come around, so you can get on that high-speed rail and head to New York City in just 37 minutes. It’s going to be so awesome. Unless Mitt Romney becomes president. Maybe. The Republican candidate has promised he’ll defund the private-public transportation line because...
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DAILY GRINDER: Local Voting App Featured in PW Wins Award
The web app developed by Philly Voter activist Faye Anderson, Yo! Philly Votes, recently won 1st place in the first round of Hacks For Democracy, which sought to judge applications that could improve the fall election. Yo! Philly Votes was previously featured in Philadelphia Weekly as one of the best election apps this year. The app allows users to easily report...
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New Poll Shows Support for the Green Party’s Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala
Stein and Honkala (via Facebook) CNN has a new poll out, in which they’ve included third-party candidates Gary Johnson, of the Libertarian Party, and Jill Stein, of the Green Party. And as it happens, both Johnson and Stein poll: Johnson earns 3 percent; Stein gets 2. And while it doesn’t necessarily mean either candidate is on the verge of winning the election...
Continue ReadingHere Are Mitt Romney’s 15 New Ads You Won’t See In Pennsylvania
Fresh off the Democratic National Convention, Republican candidate Mitt Romney is in all-out ad blitz mode. He released 15 new commercials today that are set to make Jeopardy! viewers in “key swing states” yearn for Nov. 7 when the pain of having to hear the two candidates “approve this message” five times a day will finally be over. As we noted...
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