NEPA Caucus GOP straw poll:
Senate: Toomey 20 Luksik 0 Estadt 1
Governor: Corbett 21 Rohrer 0
Lt Gov:
Watkins 10
Cawley 7
Beiler 3
Difrancesco 1
Aichele 0
Pepper 0
Diamond 0
Johnson 0
Rizzo 0
Urban 0
NOTE: Some votes not yet included (due to weather)



17 Comments
Cawley finishes another strong second. The only candidate resonating with all caucuses.
Corbett-Cawley 2010!
Aichele got zero. RINO Aichele would have fared much better paired with her idol Spector at the Democrat meeting
Right on. Anyone but convicted felon Chet Beiler.
A proven vote-getter in the SE will make our ticket unbeatable. Recall the boost that Schweiker gave to Ridge.
Go Cawley!
Schweiker? You mean the guy who raised our taxes and signed the state's infamous hate-crimes law?
Ridge, you mean the guy who defends baby-killing and voted against Reagan more than any other Republican congressman?
Note: you might not want to invoke conservatives instead of liberal politicians on this site.
Ladies and Gentleman, introducing, Joe Watkins, we will be proud:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16kBipjHbAo
Cawley was so scared that he would loose this one that he shipped the felon Bob Asher up to twist arms for votes. Thank Bob Asher for getting the votes Cawley needed.
I liked Chet Beiler, in fact I voted to endorse him when he ran for row office a couple years ago. But I couldn't support him anymore when Jim told me is an ex-convict. In fact had I known that I wouldn't have supported him two years ago.
Cawley and Earmark king Rep. Patrick Murphy will be great together. They are two peas in a pod. Cawley hides behind the pork that Murphy brings back to Bucks County and calls himself fiscally conservative. Yea right!
What use is Cawley or any candidate from the SE? They can't produce votes, there should be a candidate from the T. The people who don't like Cawley have very strong feelings againt him! If Watkins gets the endorsement the grassroots will get behind him, Cawley is going to hurt the ticket when it comes to the base.
Johnson or Watkins… Cawley likes himself too much to be #2 on a ticket. Typical politician….
PA Dem's can't endorse a sigle Dem.
They can, however endorse a former Republican?
Idiots!
Difrancesco fared pretty bad here! Did he cut a deal with Cawley and push his votes to him? My guess is he did, what was he offered so that he get out of this now and endorse Cawley.
The insiders will get Cawley because of all the division being sowed by all these candidates. While some are authentic some are planted in the process to help Cawley.
Beiler is an ex-con I read in a post, but that's something I don't know for a fact.
In Northeast PA and Luzerne County in particular many elected officials are on their way to having that ex-con distinction right down to a school board president.
Why does Cawley's wife live in NY? Never seen her at any events with him….is this part of the progressive/pro-choice platform in which Cawley sits?
I honestly would rather have any of the pro-abortion governors we have had in my lifetime over the one pro-life governor we had.
It's going to be Corbett/Watkins.
Cawley stinks!