Blood Splatters on Barletta - Shenandoah Murder has Hazleton implications

Shenandoah Murder has Hazleton implications. What does this mean for Larry Barletta?

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Blood Splatters on Barletta - Campaign in Jeopardy

With the murder of Luis Ramirez a Mexican Immigrant seen as the logical conclusion of the anti immigrant rhetoric of Hazleton Mayor Larry Barletta Republican insiders worried about congressional campaign. Did the verbal attacks of small town neo-fascist Larry Barletta drive teens to murder? Knowledgeable political operatives are concerned that Barletta is a one issue candidate and his one issue is rapidly going south.

WENY-TV Carney Leading Hackett in Polls

Carney Leading Hackett in Polls
Ted Fioraliso
September 5, 2008 Northern Tier Democratic congressman Chris Carney is leading his challenger -- Republican Chris Hackett -- in two recent polls. However, differences between the polls leave the candidates wondering how close the race really is. The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call printed a 49 to 45 percent lead for Carney last week. But according to his own poll a few days earlier, Carney claims the margin is much wider. He says he's leading by 27 percent. Carney is in his first term in Congress. His district represents Bradford County.

Gort42: Fire Fighters Endorse Carney

Gort42: Fire Fighters Endorse Carney

gort42: Fire Fighters Endorse Carney

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Fire Fighters Endorse Carney

Forty Fort, PA—The Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association will be formally endorsing Congressman Chris Carney’s re-election TODAY, Tuesday, September 2nd at 3:30 PM.

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"Congressman Carney has stood on the frontline with Fire Fighters and has given us steadfast support during his tenure in Congress. Not only for Pennsylvania Fire Fighters, but for all Fire Fighters nationwide. This is why we proudly stand with Congressman Carney and support his bid for re-election." said Art Martynuska, President of the Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association. Mr. Martynuska will be on hand this Tuesday to present Congressman Carney with the official endorsement.

Carney's 2-to-1 lead

Carney's 2-to-1 lead
Chris Carney put our a press release yesterday trumpeting the results of a recent Momentum Analysis poll.

The Momentum Analysis poll showed Carney with a dominant 2-to-1 lead over Hackett (54% to 27%)

Said campaign manger Vince Rongione, "These polls confirm what we already know. Congressman Carney has very strong support across party lines and across the district. We will continue to fight for every vote and focus on the issues that really matter, but it is very encouraging to see that our positive message is connecting with voters in every corner of Northeast and Central Pennsylvania."

Carney andT Boones Pickens to save America

Congressman Chris Carney and Texas Billionaire T Boones Pickens to save America and make the 10th Congressional District rich.

Pickens, to Carney: “You’re sitting on top of 2 trillion gallons of natural gas.”

Carney: “Is that a lot?”

Pickens: “Hell yes, that’s a lot!”

Turns out, Pennsylvania is riding on the second-largest store of natural gas in the country, Carney said.

Carney and Pickens may be different in every other way, but they both say they see the writing on the wall — and it isn’t written in oil, the congressman said.

Thanks Chris Carney for Helping Seniors

Pike County Courier > Opinion

Updated: August 1, 2008

I would like to express my appreciation to both Democratic Congressman Chris Carney and Republican Congressman Todd Platts for co-sponsoring the much needed Care Giver Tax Relief Bill. This proposed law will allow people to take much better care of aging parents and provide tax relief for doing so.

When my mother became seriously ill, even though she had Medicare, the uncovered areas placed a large financial burden on myself, my husband and my brother. Many of the “Baby Boomer” generation have faced this heavy financial situation and many others could find themselves in this position in the future. No one likes to come to the point were we may have to ask our children for help because of the stress it may place on them and our grandchildren. This bill will help so many for so little and shows what can be accomplished when caring elected leaders of both parties, like Carney and Platts, work together for the benefit of those they represent.

I’d also at this time like to thank state Senator LIsa Baker and state Representative Dr. Karen Boback for all the work they do for seniors. It is deeply appreciated.

Alice A. Tomlinson

Tunkhannock

Gort42 Rips Hackett for his Whining

From reading Gort42's scintillating recap of the debate debate Hackett comes across like a whining child.

Seen on Gort42

Debating debates

In a time honored tradition GOP challenger Chris Hackett has called for a series of debates with freshman Democrat Chris Carney then complains when the Carney camp doesn't agree to everything he wants.

Desperate Hackett Begs for Debates

Hackett is so desperate for attention he has even proposed a debate on Immigration. Word is that he wants his former housekeeper an illegal immigrant herself to act as moderator. INS has yet to approve that

Hackett Challenges Carney to Eight Debates

Dallas, PA – After weeks of attempting to reach out privately to the Carney campaign to negotiate a debate schedule, only to be repeatedly stonewalled, today congressional candidate Chris Hackett issued a public challenge to incumbent congressman Chris Carney to hold a series of eight substantive and informative debates across the district over the course of the next four months.

Hackett declared, “I know the congressman is busy, but I would think he’d be able to find a little time to debate the critical issues facing our country before the people of our district. We’ve been looking for Chris Carney for weeks to talk about debates, but he doesn’t seem interested. Hopefully, he will hear enough from voters that he’ll change his mind and agree to debates. We have major differences on key issues, and the voters deserve a full hearing of them.”

The Hackett campaign is proposing two types of debates. In addition to three debates in the traditional format that would be televised in October by WNEP, WVIA, and WBRE/WYOU, Hackett is also proposing a series of five single-topic Lincoln-Douglas style debates, in which the candidates can go into much greater depth about their views than in a traditional 30 or 60 second answer.

In addition to three October debates, the Hackett proposal is for five single topic debates during the months of July, August, and September on the following critical topics:

1) Energy Policy

2) Taxes and Spending

3) The Economy and Jobs

4) Social Security, Medicare, and Health Care

5) National Security and Immigration

Several media outlets, including WILK radio, have offered to host these debates.

Hackett concluded, “Going back to April, I have challenged Chris Carney to engage in the kind of serious, substantive, and respectful campaign that the people of northeast and central Pennsylvania deserve. Debates are a vital part of that kind of campaign, and I hope he decided to take us up on this challenge.”

Navy Recognises Excellence with Carney Promotion

Congressman Chis Carney will receive a well deserved promotion to Commander spring of next year.

Posted: July 6
Updated: Today at 8:33 AM
Carney now commander

Congressman, who had been a lieutenant commander in Navy Reserves, promoted.

SHERRY LONG slong@timesleader.com

U.S. Rep. Chris Carney, D-Dimock Township, was promoted to the rank of commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves this week.

Carney

That’s a step up from his former rank of lieutenant commander.

He will “pin-on” his new rank late next spring. He’s one of only 34 reserve intelligence officers to receive this promotion.

“I am extremely honored and humbled to receive this promotion,” said the congressman who represents the 10th District. “As someone that has dedicated his life to service, I was thrilled to see my name on the promotion list.”

He enlisted in the Navy Reserves in 1995 as an ensign and later activated for Operations Southern Watch, Noble Eagle and Enduring Freedom.

The first-term representative will face Republican challenger Chris Hackett in the November election.

Carney serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Committee on Homeland Security.

Carney and Republican Congressman Mark Kirk, of Illinois, also in the Navy Reserves, are the only two members of Congress currently serving in the reserves.

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Carney targeted by GOP Criminal Conspiracy

Jamestown Associates of Princeton, NJ and Freedom Watch are alledged to have targerted Congressman Chris Carney as part of a Criminal Conspiracy.

This from http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/7/4/16178/59792

2008's Grand Masters of GOP Dirty Tricks

by bobswern, Fri Jul 04, 2008 at 04:17:08 PM EST

The de facto reality is, this cycle, the GOP is reverting to media and robo-calling campaigns produced and implemented by a group of folks with known connections to, among other things:

1.) convicted felons, jailed for implementing dirty campaign tactics, as well as,

2.) serial violators of basic FEC regulations.

A comment from a New Jersey blog on convicted GOP felon, Allen Raymond, author of "How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative."

"As for his three months in a Pennsylvania prison, he wrote: 'After 10 full years inside the GOP, 90 days among honest criminals wasn't really any great ordeal.' "

FRONT MEN:

Karl Rove, Ari Fleischer and the other Rethug front men and mouthpieces on Sheldon Adelson's payroll over at Freedom's Watch really won't want you to read this diary.

In fact, Rove's denying that he's even associated with Adelson and Freedom's Watch. This has to be a bit of a spin record, since it's already been reported in a variety of articles--including a widely referenced piece from the New Yorker from last week-- that Rove's receiving a major six-figure stipend from Adelson now; but Karl's claiming he's not on Adelson's payroll. The rest of the population of planet Earth, including James Carville and the DCCC, would beg to differ on this basic fact.

That being said, this diary really isn't so much about Rove, Fleischer and Freedom's Watch as it is about the media thugs doing their wet work this cycle.

JAMESTOWN ASSOCIATES:

I'm talking about, among others, Jamestown Associates of Princeton, New Jersey--Freedom Watch's "agency of record"--as well as those that are known to have associated with this slimey group up until now.

(Much more about these scumbags in a moment. But, first, a little update.)

INITIAL DEMOCRATIC TARGETS:

Congressman Chris Carney