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Victory Party

If you want to celebrate with your candidate tonight here is where to find some of them.Patrick Murphy   FOP Lodge 5, 1331 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123Kathleen Kane  Radisson Lackawanna Station starting at 8 pm.700 Lackawanna Ave. Scran... »

Ground game

Bob Caruso took me on a tour of downtown Wilkes-Barre yesterday. The Matt Cartwright for Congress office on Public Square was full of tables, phones and people, The Tim Holden HQ had signs in the windows but the doors were locked and looking in the win... »

PA 11th CD Democratic primary

Longtime activist Gene Stilp and W-B asst. city attorney Bill Vinsko are vieing for the Democratic nomination to take on frosh GOP Congressman Lou Barletta in the 11th Congressional District of Pennsylvania. This is the first election since Pennsylvani... »

Gary Johnson for President

2 term New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is the headliner of the PA Libertarian Party Convention starting Friday at the Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre. Johnson started off running for the Republican Presidential nomination but the networks decided he wasn... »

Mundy, Mundy & Cartwright rally the Democrats

Bob Caruso counted a crowd of at least 106 people that turned out for the rally hosted by 120th District State Representative Phyllis Mundy for 17th CD candidate Matt Cartwright tonight in West Wyoming. The turnout probably would have been even better ... »

Holden camp claims 10 point lead

Responding to the internal poll of Matt Cartwight's campaign showing him up by 6 points Tim Holden's campaign manager claims that Holden is up by 10.Pennsylvania: Challenger’s Poll Shows Tim Holden TrailingEric Nagy, Holden’s campaign manager, said the... »

Meet the candidates

120th HD State Representative Phyllis Mundy is hosting a rally for 17th CD candidate Matt Cartwright on Thursday in West Wyoming. Phyllis is bucking the trend of the local county committees and other office holders that have endorsed Tim Holden. She ha... »

Stilp and Vinsko will get together

CV: The two Democrats vying to challenge U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta in the 11th Congressional District will debate April 12 at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, according to the event's sponsor, the League of Women Voters. Gene Stilp, a Wilkes-Barre native kno... »

Murphy on the air

The contest for the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania Attorney General is the 2nd most interesting race in our part of the Commonwealth after the 17th CD primary between Cartwright and Holden. The Man on Dog vs. the Dog on Roof Prez contest has ki... »

Meet the candidate

From the inbox:Cartwright Campaign to Open Wilkes-Barre and Scranton Offices this WeekendDemocratic Congressional candidate Matt Cartwright will be opening both his campaigns Wilkes-Barre and Scranton offices this weekend.On Friday (March 23), the camp... »

Air war starts in 17th CD

via PoliticsPAIt looks like I will have to start watching the local news again but not for the car hits tree and a house burns down stories but the political ads. Incumbent Congressman Tim Holden and challenger Matt Cartwright will both be on the air s... »

Lupas familly saga

I have to admit to having corruption fatigue. I still read the stories in the local press but haven't posted about the 3o+ people charged and convicted in the ongoing probe lately. Maybe I'm succumbing to the cynicism of many people I know that have be... »

Don Bailey bails on 2012 Democratic primary for PA AG

Bailey to Run for AG as Indy, Not DemHe has decided to mount an independent bid instead. Good luck with that as Pennsylvania has set the bar so high for independents or 3rd party candidates to make the ballot it is almost impossible, just ask Carl Roma... »

RIP Paul Stebbins

I first met PJ in 2006 when he announced he was running for State Representative in the 120th HD. He ran an energetic campaign but lost in a 3 way primary. He attended a few of our Saturday OT Committee and Operatic Society get togethers (the forerunne... »

Luzerne County Dems make Congressional endorsements

Luzerne Dems Back Holden, VinskoNo surprise that Bill Vinsko got the nod over Gene Stilp in their contest to take on Freshman Republican Lou Barletta in the 11th CD. Vinsko is the Assistant City Attorney for Wilkes-Barre and has many friends in the cou... »

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