Toomey, Corbett & Beiler top SW GOP Caucus vote…
US SENATE: Toomey tops Luksik 51-6…
GOV: Corbett over Rohrer 57-2…
SW Caucus Lt. Gov vote:
Beiler 21
Cawley 18
Watkins 10
DiFrancesco 3
Aichele 3
Johnson 3
Rizzo 1
Toomey, Corbett & Beiler top SW GOP Caucus vote…
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Same old story…
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Surprised that DiFrancesco didn't have a stronger showing…
Cawley and Beiler got beat up pretty badly in some shady mailers but still received a strong amount of votes. If anything, it looks like those mailers against them only helped them. Both have a lot of markers left to call in as well.
One wonders where this stands with Corbett and his team looking at these numbers. Is he more inclined to hint at who he wants or less?
Aichele is pro-abortion so any of them aside from her would be welcomed by me.
I'll be ignoring the recommendations of the GOP party bosses…
A Corbett-Cawley ticket was hashed out WEEKS ago by the higher ups. Resistance is futile. The best thing to hope for is that everyone stays in the fight and gets their name on the ballot. Make it a crap shoot. That's the only way to stop the southeastern RINO to get the nod. So, call the non-chosen ones, and encourage them to run without the endorsement. It's the only hope.
It's between Beiler and Cawley, and it will come down to which candidate has done the best job securing the "2nd choice" vote. In other words, if, for instance, Beiler can get all the Watkins, Johnson, and DiFrancesco people to commit to him as their second choice, moreso than Cawley can, Beiler wins. Vice versa for Cawley.
Jimbo mentions attack mailers against Cawley & Beiler. Any of them trace to the Aichele campaign?
Who the hell is Achele?
I had never heard of Steve Johnson until last night. I am impressed.
Pepper is pro-abortion as well
Why are they wasting all of this time with silly straw polls and endorsements? Just have an open primary and let the 3.1 million Republican voters in PA have their say…
Heard the Northwest caucus met this morning as well. Anybody have numbers?
This is the beginning of the end for Philadelphia City Councilman Frannnny Rizzo . The DROP program is going to lead to Frannnny being dropped by the voters next year.
I agree with Nathan Shrader – I'm tired of the Republican establishment making their choice before the people vote their choice in the primary. I'm sick of listening to them, when they should be listening to US! They are supposed to represent us, not the other way around.
Steve Johnson, impressive as the PEOPLE'S VOICE! and in today's political picture with most of the people rejecting the govt status quo, it would be good to get more regular people running for office. Mr. Johnson will have my vote.
Is this the same State Committee that endorsed Arlen Specter? And Swann? And Fisher? Yeah, I'll certainly follow them blindly off the edge of a cliff. They have a great track record.
You take Johnson, I'll take Watkins.
dave – great point. ..so what we see is that Tom Corbett and Jim Cawley are both ESTABLISHMENT republicans. That's no surprise. I hope committe chooses to endorse, that way I know who to cross off my list. I love Toomey, but if he is the endorsed candidate, I will vote for Peg, just because of the arrogance of the committee.
Pepper won the Northwest with 9 votes
Dave in Dallas
Yes Dave this is the same State Committee that kicked former Lieutenant Governor Bill Scranton
in the ass four years ago! By the way you disgruntled GOP members that are looking for a candidate
other than the annointed one, and one that has strong name recognition and can win, then Bill Scranton
would be a Great Place To Start!
http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2010...
The big boys will get Cawley because all of us are aguing and fussing about all the third and four and fifth candidates they have dropped into this race.____The Republican Establishment knows how to win elections by splitting the conservative grassroots and then lining up their troops behind the insider pick.____Those @@@@@@@@@@@.
My comment to the Watkins and Johnsonses of the world is simple: Set the table. Humble yourself to run for lower office. Don't just haul off and run for the biggest office in the land one day, without having done the spade work it takes to earn the support of a political body like State Committee, and then whine over the outcome. That's not how it works. If you have such a passion for public service, why did you not run for any office before? Was elected office beneath you until now? You deserve the a$$-reaming you're getting from Asher/Gleason/Cawley. Some of us have done the spade work, helping the pary in the vineyards, helping good conservatives like Pat Toomey. Where were you guys, other than dreaming about being Lt. Gov someday. Why did you not run for state rep, county commissioner, or Congress or something? You don't just run for some high office when it suits you, when you feel the moment is right for you. Morons.
To Terry,
You are woefully uninformed, and name calling is not respectful when you're tryng to put someone in their place and you don't know diddly about their history:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16kBipjHbAo
Yer kidding right… All Watkins has done is run for higher office once, against Santorum (what, Santorum wasn't good enough??????)…….
You have not seen the video yet…it shows…know all your history, then disagree….but at least disagree from a position of knowledge. Otherwise you argument is never taken seriously.
And tell Watkins to pull his nose out from between Corbett's ass cheeks. That isn't endearing him to anyone at all. No one likes a brown noser
You tell him yourself Terry, here's his website:
http://www.watkins2010.com
Real American,
Glad to hear we're on the same page. I'm looking forward to meeting Mr. Johnson sometime soon. I'm supporting Russ Diamond, but I certainly hope that cooler heads prevail and PA's 3.1 million GOP voters get to make an unbossed decision on May 18th.
Corbett/Cawley is being wired by the establishment. If you haven’t met Steve Johnson, you should.
Steve Johnson supported and donated to a very liberal Republican candidate for Judge in York County. That's the real Steve Johnson.
The problem with so many of those who have 'paid their dues' is that they have been co-opted or corrupted. They are part of the problem. Having a fresh face — without the taint that political experience in this state brings — is an asset.
Got link?
I'm ignoring you too
Some people think they can start at the top and work their way down. It usually doesn't work.
Former GOP Boss John W. Thompson Sr. told Bill Scranton four years ago that 2010
was his time to run for Governor. Bill what are you waiting on? The Boss supported your dad
and he would have supported you if he were with us today!
The vote in southwestern PA is further evidence of how out of touch RSC really is. Russ Diamond is the only candidate committed to a reasonable, responsible plan for holding a state constitutional convention. The F&M poll last week said that 72% of voters favor a convention. How foolish are they to ignore the one and only candidate who can speak to that issue?
I'm for Whoever/Diamond on May 18th. He'll help the GOP win and stand for something at the same time. It's the kind of campaign we need!
Open primary for governor, open primary for #2 spot. Let the PEOPLE decide, then the PARTY gets in and supports the voter’s choice. Prescription for failure is to do the same old thing and lose. Again.
I'm amazed at how many think the government is so great they want to give up their own vote in favor of the party's choice. Are you cracked? PA's system of voting for governor/lt. governor seperately is genious. At the very basic level the vote is the citizen's vote for who they want to represent them, not the governor candidate's choice (who, by the way, isn't even the governor – yet!) Open Primary this year is the only way to go.
Guzzardi's newspaper the Bulletin did a puff piece ignoring Aichele's huge tax increases, pay to play, historic and relentless attacks on conservatives, multi conflicts, and pro-abortion record which spins loser Carol Aichele. Aichele is using it in her losing campaign. With Chester County subracted Aichele has 12 votes statewide. Bob G – you know Aichele's horrible record. Are you on drugs? Did you fire the great jornalist Chris Friend who wrote the Aichele law firm Saul Ewing exposed articles? Bob, I thought you were for Watkins and I am shocked you would drink this Koolaid. Please explain lest you many fans will think less of you.
Right Pa Conservative Corbett Cawley is wired and the phony southeast penna straw poll, with exception of ChesCo, rigged the vote for Cawley, the Hacks' Best Friend. ChesCo rigged the vote for Aichele.. Both Establishment Insiders. Unacceptable
Does anyone happen to know how the State Commitee voted in the Toomey/Specter race in 04? Did they support Toomey?
The Hacks at State Committee endorsed Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey. Pat Toomey is not chasing the Hack Endorsement, the Hacks are chasing him because, in effect, there is no other candidate. Peg Luksik has not raised significant money nor established a presence in southeast. Nevertheless, it is mistake to underestimate her.
What is the evidence that The Bulletin is my newspaper. I am a creditor. Tom Rice makes all the editorial and news decisions. I had nothing to do with this. John Kennedy is my guy and I have contributed significant portion of his campaign cash to him. Carol Aichele, as I have written elsewhere on grassrootspa, is part of part of the incestuous insider incumbents network, getting rich from government.
Aichele is OUT. Now watch the other insiders drop out one by one. My prediction is Cawley, Watkins and Johnson will be all that is left. Watkins will hang on, but drop out as he hasn't the stomach to fight the BIG MACHINERY that is the Republican Party that obviously has been courted by Cawley. Johnson has a GREAT shot as he represents more of what the people WANT and NEED in a Lt. Gov. This will prove interesting.
The more I discover, the more convinced we need to clean house in any and every way that we can. I'm also more convinced than ever that the way to prosperity for PA is to vote for successful businessmen and systematically get rid of all of the career politicians.