Pat Meehan Primaried

Stan Casacio Pat Meehan Primaried
Stan Casacio throwing his hat in the ring in the Pa. 7th congressional race.

Pat Meehan Primaried — Montgomery County businessman Stan Casacio announced tonight, Jan. 21, he will challenge incumbent Pat Meehan for  Pennsylvania’s 7th District congressional seat in the April 26 Republican Primary.

Among those with Casacio at the event at his Whitemarsh home where he made the announcement were newly elected Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Gale and WPHT talk show host Dom Giordano.

Casacio, a local Republican leader, was a big backer of Gale. He said he was motivated to run against Meehan because of his unwillingness to fight to reign in out-of-control spending and illegal immigration, among other things.

He described Meehan as a nice guy but said he felt action was needed.

Meehan was elected to the seat in 2010.

The traditional center of the 7th District has been Delaware County and it has been represented by a Delco resident since 1945. It has been horrifically gerrymandered, though, and now includes large parts of Montgomery, Berks and Chester counties, and, believe it or not, even part of Lancaster County.

Pat Meehan Primaried

6 thoughts on “Pat Meehan Primaried”

  1. Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter Pat Meehan is primaried by conservative, Joe Gale financier and supporter, and all around good guy, Stan Casacio. Stan has the experience, the intelligence and the money to be not only viable but a winner, particularly, if Donald Trump for President​ is at top of ticket.

    Chet Beiler, consistent conservative, the nicest guy in Pennsylvania is, like Stanley Casacio​ an experienced businessman, smart and has money to win.

    In Altoona, the reliable Art Halvorson is challenging insider’s insider big government hack Bill Shuster in the most Republican district in Pennsylvania.

    With Donald Trump at top of ticket, they are very likely winners.

  2. Pat Meehan has one of the lowest scores for conservative ratings all around. Heritage Action score: 36% Conservative Review: 31% which means he’s voting nearly 70% of the time with the Democrats. Why is the GOP Establishment running with this guy? Last night, at the straw polls in Chester County, he defended his previous vote for funding of Planned Parenthood, by saying he helped put the stand-alone show bill to defund PP on Obama’s desk. So now he claims the high road, on a bill he knew would safely be defeated and vetoed. Hypocrisy, much?

  3. “He described Meehan as a nice guy…”

    This is off the topic, but Casacio’s disclaimer reminds me how this has become necessary today, to say that your opponent is a nice guy, because discourse has become so damaged, primarily by Leftists/Progressives, that when we disagree with someone, it’s immediately taken as an ad hominem attack. The old idea that we could disagree but it had no bearing on our relationship with the other person is long dead.

    And it goes for any area, not just politics. My mother used to say someone was a nice person, a sports figure, for example, when we all used to discuss this or that game, and criticize what a pitcher, a manager, a coach, quarterback, etc, had done. “He’s a nice person,” she’d say, and I’d answer, “Sure, but that doesn’t make him a good [insert role here].”

    By the same token, though, she hated Chase Utley, because he uttered “that word” at the 2008 victory celebration. No amount of nice could undo that. Mom passed in December 2014. She was a life-long, die-hard Dodger fan, and we wonder what she’d have thought when Utley went to LA.

    “What about Utley, Mom? Isn’t he a nice guy?” “Oh no, I can’t stand him!”

    1. Let’s not tell anyone how much of a “nice guy” the other person is. Being honest and having integrity is “nice;” breaking promises and voting against the Constitution is “NOT NICE.”

    2. Pat is actually a nice guy. It’s just a question as to whether he is bending like a willow a bit too much, or will he bend like a willow in the right direction with a different president so you may as well keep him.

      Honest people can have different opinions.

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