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Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi will face a Tea Party challenger for his 9th District seat this April 24 in the Republican Primary.
The challenger, Rogers Howard, is a Unionville resident with a PhD. in Chemistry.
“I met Rogers Howard yesterday for two hours,” said Tea Party activist Bob Guzzardi. “He may the smartest candidate I have met – so smart that he can admit he doesn’t know something.”
Howard served in the 82d Airborne Division.
Delco Pats Hear GOP Senate Hopefuls — Five prospects for the Republican nomination to take on incumbent Little Bobby Casey in next year’s senate race appeared before the Delaware County Patriots, Thursday, at the Knights of Columbus hall in Newtown Square.
Moderator was Kevin Kelly of The Loyal Opposition, a Philadelphia-based Tea Party group.
About 150 were in attendance.
Unfortunately, I was not one of them due to a being drafted for a pierogi-making project at my church.
Ali Carey, however, did cover the meeting and the story has been published here at PoliticsPa.Com.
Ali says the winners were Steve Welch and Sam Rohrer.
If anyone wants pierogies they can be had by calling Kathy at 610-328-4731. The fillings are potato and cheese and they are delicious. Price is $7 per dozen or three dozen for $20.
Marc Scaringi, who is seeking to replace Bob Casey Jr. in the U.S. Senate will speak to the West Chester Tea Party and mingling with members, 7 p.m., Oct. 11 at the West Goshen Township Building, 1025 Paoli Pike, West Chester Pa. 19380.
Scaringi is an attorney and was an aide to Sen. Rick Santorum.
Also at the event will be candidates for Chester County commissioner.
Free refreshments will follow the talks.
Hat tip Fran Coppock.
Philadelphia Inquirer carried a large, front page story, Oct. 7, about the “Occupy Philadelphia” protest near City Hall which drew about 700 flea partyers.
Contrast this to the almost non-existent coverage it gave the Independence Hall Tea Party’s 4th of July event which brought about 1,500 to Independence Mall and featured Herman Cain and John Bolton as speakers.
One’s sure they have their reasons for the stories they choose to play up.
Update: Teri Adams of the Independence Hall Tea Party tells us that the turnout on July 4 was actually over 2,000.
Flea Party Vs Tea Party II
As the unwashed Obama supporters continue their protest on Wall Street against the washed Obama supporters, a story regarding the privately owned park in lower Manhattan where they are camping serves as a comparison between their movement and that of the Tea Party.
Brookfield Office Properties, which is the owner of Zuccotti Park, says the park has become a sanitation disaster with the protestors willfully ignoring the posted rules which are designed to guarantee all access to it.
Compare this to the much-larger Tea Party protests which famously left the Washington Mall spotless.
Tom Smith of Armstrong County has thrown his hat in the ring to be the Republican candidate to take on Democrat incumbent Senator Bob Casey.
Smith, is a Tea Party leader and one-time coal company owner.
Take that Rob Gleason.
Hat tip Tracie Mauriello
A little birdie has told me that Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Rob Gleason has given a directive that all prospective candidates stay away from the Tea Party crowd.
I think what the little birdie has told me is true.
I’ll be glad to be shown otherwise.
The first meeting of the season of the Delaware County Patriots, tonight, Sept. 22, brought about 80 persons to the Knights of Columbus Hall in Newtown Square to hear Leo Knepper of Heritage Action for America-PA describe how the Pennsylvania’s Republican congressmen are no where near as fiscally conservative as is commonly thought, and the inspiringly enthusiastic Jenn Stefano of American Prosperity Pa explain how it easy it is to win committee seats.
Mrs. Stefano, at the end of her talk, got pledges from a dozen-plus participants to run for the unheralded but important office.
Knepper singled out for special criticism Congressman Pat Meehan, whose 7th District includes Newtown Square. He said Meehan only scored a 48 percent on the Heritage Action Scorecard which charts the votes legislators make as whether they advance or detract from the cause of commonsense conservatism.
“On the big issues, he’s been there, but on the small issues he’s been dropping the ball” Knepper said.
Knepper gave an example as to how Meehan voted against a seemingly uncontroversial bill that would have cut farm subsidies to $250,000 and restrict them to actual farmers rather than seekers of tax breaks.
Knepper said the only members of Pennsylvania’s delegation to score at least an 80 on the score card were Congressman Joe Pitts of the 16th District and Sen. Pat Toomey. No other Republicans scored above a 60 he said.
Knepper said that the United States has reached the point where the debt equals the entire gross domestic product.
“We are going to collapse if we keep going at this rate,” he said.
Mrs. Stefano said time for talking was over and it was now up to Tea Partyers to start doing the walking, namely by running for office, specifically committee seats. Local committee people run at the precinct level and are the ones who pick the leaders of the established parties and write the party bylaws.
It requires 10 signatures to get on the ballot, Mrs. Stefano said.
Republican bylaws require that each precinct be represented by a man and a woman. Often this office is unfilled.
Failing to get involved is a mark of shame, Mrs. Stefano said.
“You cannot say you are a patriot. Our children and grandchildren will have to pick up arms and fight and die for the things we gave away,” she passionately said.
Mrs. Stefano singled out Delco Patriot Lisa Esler for special praise.
“Politicians are afraid of her,” she said.
After the speakers, it was announced that the Delco Patriots were signing onto a push to get HB 42 to a vote in Harrisburg.
HB 42 is the proposed state law that would undermine much of ObamaCare in Pennsylvania. It has been bottled up in the House Appropriation Committee since Feb. 8.
The committee is chaired by Bill Adolph of Springfield who represents the 165th District.
Adolph indicated to the Patriots on May 19 that there would be a vote on the bill before the end of the year.
A Tea Party In Brooklyn — Republican Bob Turner, who ran as a Tea Party supporter, crushed Democrat opponent David Weprin in a special election last night (Sept. 13) to take the 9th District New York congressional seat that was once held by ultra-lefties Chuck Schumer and, most recently, Anthony “Little” Weiner.
A Republican has not won there since 1920.
It was a rout with Turner getting 54 percent of the vote, almost the percentage Obama got when he won the district that consists of parts of Queens and Brooklyn, in 2008.
So, does Allyson Schwartz, the ultra-left, secular Jewish, one-time abortion clinic executive director who represents Pennsylvania’s 13th District, feel someone walking over her grave?
She certainly should.
And speaking of Montgomery County, parts of which are represented by Ms. Schwartz, Tea Party activist Bob Guzzardi points out that businessman Steve Welch, who is seeking to be the GOP’s answer in 2012 to incumbent Senator Little Bobby Casey, was a strong supporter of leftist Congressman Joe Sestak and voted for Barack Obama in the Democrat Primary, albeit he says he voted for John McCain in the general election.
It’s good that you saw the light, Steve, but there are other potential candidates who saw it sooner and see it brighter and those are the ones that thinking people will want.
Pa GOP Tea Party Trouble — Pennsylvania’s Republican establishment has a Tea Party problem.
As indicated in an earlier post, establishment fav Steve Welch is not warming the hearts of those whose votes he needs.
Now, Paula Stiles of the Chester County Patriots is sounding the call for the common folk to attend the General Republican Meeting of the State Committee, which is 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Sept. 17, at Harrisburg Hilton, 1 N. 2nd St., Harrisburg.
“We are asking constituents from every county in Pennsylvania to attend. . . and personally experience the disdain that PA GOP leadership has for their fellow Republicans,” she says. “Please understand, the”leadership” is not elected.”
She says she already has at least one van-full of those attending this rather inconveniently scheduled event.
She asks that those planning to attend to RSVP at terminatorgop@hushmail.com.
