To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Republican National Committee, +1-202-863-8614
HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Republican Committee today endorsed front-runner John McCain for president, despite some members who wanted to delay the endorsement vote. The withdrawal of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney last week and a strong pitch for McCain from former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge sealed the endorsement, said Jim Roddey, Allegheny County Republican chairman.
Absolutely. Part of that is because we get complacent. We get into a thing where Mom is a Democrat, so I'm a Democrat. We don't spend the time to look at people's voting records and how they're helping our community. We believe the hype. Now we're believing the hype on Kerry because he's a Democrat, and if you're black you're supposed to vote for Kerry. Well, no. Let's see what he's done for African-Americans, what he's done legislatively for 20 years. It's like we're going to vote for a Democrat because that's who we are, that's what the commercials say we're supposed to do, what our so-called black leaders say we're supposed to do.
In a letter to supporters titled "America Needs a Better, Smarter Plan in Iraq," first-term Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick criticizes what he calls President Bush's "extreme" policy in Iraq. In the letter, the Pennsylvania Republican also decries the "cut- and-run" stance of his Democratic opponent, Patrick Murphy, an Iraq war veteran. The race shows the difficulty facing Republicans running for re-election this year in parts of the country where the war has become deeply unpopular.
Chester County Treasurer Ann Duke today became the first Republican to declare her candidacy for state auditor general. Duke, 59, has been treasurer of the southeastern county, the state's seventh most populous, since 2009. She cut payroll by 15 percent and made some services -- including dog licensing and tax payments -- available online.
HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania's Republican congressional delegation has spent most of the year and all fall making the case that they know best how to draw the state's congressional map. They say their map achieves the goal that state, national and Harrisburg Republicans all set: To keep 12 Pennsylvania Republican members in Congress in a legal, constitutional and appropriate way.
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Troy Thompson of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, +1-717- 787-7530
A proposal that drillers pay $10,000 for the first Marcellus shale natural gas well drilled on a site and $5,000 for each subsequent well is starting to look like a bargain. Pennsylvania Republican Gov. Tom Corbett has proposed a fee of as much as $160,000 a well, according to media reports.
REPUBLICANS supposedly revere the Constitution, but in its birthplace, Pennsylvania, they are contemplating a subversion of the Framers' institutional architecture. Their ploy - partisanship masquerading as altruism about making presidential elections more "democratic" - will weaken resistance to an even worse change being suggested. Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Legislature may pass, and the Republican governor promises to sign, legislation ending the state's practice - shared by 47 other states - of allocating all of its electoral votes to the candidate who wins the statewide popular vote. Pennsylvania would join Maine and Nebraska in allocating one vote to the winner in each congressional district, with the two remaining votes going to the statewide popular vote winner.
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