We all know about how the GoP is trying to get rid of Alan West by re-redistricting him out of the running. Well, the Dems are doing the same thing to my Blue Dog, votes with the Republicans more than most Republicans, Democrat Congressman Jason Altmire. You see, Jason voted against Obamacare, has a great track record on the second Amendment, and is more of a fiscon than most in the Congress. So now the Democrat Party Machine in PA is allowing a carpetbagger to muscle in from the out of town. I will bet the former speaker is all for this stunt.
Who is this carpetbagger? Why it’s none other than U.S. Rep. Mark Critz, remember him? He was the hand picked replacement and lifelong political flunkey/gopher-it boy/ man servant for the traitor John ‘Haditha Marines‘ Murtha (burn in hell, John you traitorous bastard. SPIT!). PA-12 got redistricted now the rats are fleeing that nasty, run down joint. Now Critz is challenging Jason’s signatures to be on the ballot. If he wins this challenge, Jason is out.
If Critz can pull this off, That eliminates one of the last Patriotic Democrats, a Truman Democrat of the Old School, and enemy of former Speaker Pelosi. It also assures that whomever the GoP runs against Critz will win. This isn’t PA-12, we are a Red District and have been for two cycles. So, I invited Jason again to join the GoP, He is already more conservative than most of the spineless GoP punks anyway.
A Commonwealth Court judge will decide Monday if enough signatures on U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire’s nominating petition are valid, thus determining if he stays on the Democratic primary ballot April 24 in the new 12th Congressional District.
Altmire’s primary opponent, U.S. Rep. Mark Critz of Johnstown, challenged nearly 950 of the 1,651 signatures Altmire, of McCandless Township, submitted. Candidates must have 1,000 valid signatures to appear on the ballot.
At a hearing Friday in Pittsburgh, both sides ultimately agreed to have the decision come down to whether 200 signatures collected by Abby Silverman, Altmire’s fundraising assistant and director of new media, should be allowed.
Critz’s campaign maintains that the signatures she collected should be ruled invalid because she lives outside the district in the Shadyside section of Pittsburgh. Altmire’s representatives contend that Silverman lives in O’Hara Township.
The two incumbent Democrats are facing each other in the primary because redistricting moved the former 4th Congressional District that Altmire represented and reconfigured the 12th District so that it includes parts of areas now represented by both.
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The increasingly nasty election battle between U.S. Reps. Mark Critz and Jason Altmire may hinge on which place a judge determines is the legal residence of a young campaign staff worker: her parents’ home, or an apartment she shares outside of the newly redrawn 12th District.
Republicans who control Harrisburg created the Western Pennsylvania district to force the Democrats into a primary contest during the once-a-decade process of revising boundaries to reflect population shifts.
The dispute landed in court on Friday, and Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pellegrini said he would rule on the matter as early as Monday. His decision could knock Altmire of McCandless off the ballot, potentially ending his bid for a fourth term in Congress.
Critz of Johnstown, who is serving his first full term, claims that about 200 petition signatures submitted by Altmire’s campaign are not valid because a young staff worker who collected them shares an apartment outside of the district. If Critz succeeds in getting those petitions thrown out, Altmire would be left with about 950 signatures, or less than the required 1,000, a spokesman for Critz said.
But Pellegrini questioned a key aspect of that argument during a hearing, noting that Altmire’s campaign worker is a registered voter in the 12th District.
David Montgomery, Altmire’s lawyer, presented dozens of pieces of evidence showing that the 23-year-old campaign worker still lists her parents’ address in O’Hara on her driver’s license, bills, pay stubs and checks. O’Hara is inside the 12th District.
Scott Caulfield, Critz’s lawyer, questioned whether the campaign worker sleeps at her parents’ house on most nights, as opposed to an apartment she shares in Pittsburgh, which is outside the district.
The law requires candidates for the House to submit the signatures of 1,000 registered party voters to get on the primary ballot. The Altmire campaign presented 1,651 signatures, but Critz successfully challenged hundreds of them as invalid.
The primary is April 24.
Maybe the Dems are having a cleansing.
After a lot of the Blue Dogs lost to R’s
in 2010, some key Dems thought that it was
not all bad.
This is the furthest to the Left that the Dem
Party has ever been.
Yet the MSM is serving that the” Dems are moderates”
Kool Aid.
@ RIX:
altmire should walk and joing the gop. he votes with them all the time. hell, he is more conservative than a good percentage of gop congressmen.
i guess this sis it for the blue dogs and patriotic, love-america dems. now the party can be all socialist all the time
@ coldwarrior:
It does sound like he would be more at home in
the GOP.
The Dem Party has morphed into something my father
and uncles would not recognise.
It seems like battle lines are being drawn & the Dem
Party considers bi-partisanship just agreement with
them.
Why the Hell should it matter who circulates the petition? From where I sit, it shouldn’t matter if the petition was circulated by a lesbian Eskimo from Barrow, Alaska, as long as the signatories all reside in the district.
And what is being done about that A-hole muzzie judge?
RIX wrote:
the ghost of truman is not amused.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
dunno, he is out in phillie…east coast i-95 corridor, really inst part of PA.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
Bingo.
@ coldwarrior:
Isn’t that the truth. Harry would not be welcome
in the modern Dem Party & I doubt that he would
want to be.
RIX wrote:
the dems are commies and socialists and aged hippies now, kumbya!
@ coldwarrior:
That’s really allm that they are now.
RUSSIAN BASEBALL!
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
Nothing. He probably already got his robo-phone call from Obamma congratulating him.
Hey, check it out, I think I am really rubbing off on my darling sweetheart. He took these pics this morning and sent them to me. I just love it when he does that.. Just when I was thinking he doesn’t care..
CW I don’t know if you caught it, but a few weeks ago I posted about a luncheon Hubby the Lobbyist was invited to (by Tim Holden a PA congressman -- 17th district I think)
The Blue Dogs are VERY unhappy. They hate Pelosi and her crew, they hate the radicalism that has come to define the party. They have these get-togethers w/invited speakers to do research outside the traditional party boundaries.
The MSM can gloat all it wants about the fractures in the Republican party, but I think it is much more unified philosophically, than the Dems.
@ Urban Infidel:
HA! Ken Kesey and Mountain Woman they’re not!
kiss you’re sweetie……..
197 years ago today in American History -- War declared against Algiers, year 1815. Commodore Stephen Decatur was sent in command of a squadron of ten warships to attack the Algerian naval force in the Mediterranean.
@ eaglesoars:
It ain’t the Partridge Family either! lol!
@ coldwarrior:
“dunno, he is out in phillie…east coast i-95 corridor, really inst part of PA.”
C.W. -- Muzz ‘judge’ from Mechanicsburgh, PA?
He’s closer to you then to Philly -- don’t push him off on Philly!
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@ eaglesoars:
I lived about two miles from the Kesey’s growing up. Sunshine Kesey was a grade behind me and Ken Babbs daughter (Casa) was one of my best friends in high school. The infamous bus was still around in the mid 80′s.
eaglesoars wrote:
you’re?? YOU’RE??
gee-zus.
eaglesoars wrote:
then they need to take it back
spinmore wrote:
the report in the papers had him working out of phillie area…my bad i guess.
and mechaniscsburg is still much closer to phillie than to me.
5 years ago today:
“There was something stirring across the country because of what was happening in Selma Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So [my parents] got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”--Obama in Selma, Alabama speech, claiming historic Selma march somehow brought about his conception, March 4, 2007.
EXCEPT THAT Obama was 3, and his parents already split up, by the time of the Selma march.
@ coldwarrior:
. . . that’s ok -- just seeing alot of ‘Philly bashing’ here lately
We can take it though . . . you know brotherly love and all that
Go Eagles!
spinmore wrote:
i have to beat on phillie. its my job.
go pens!
@ coldwarrior:
Left of Harrisburgh is all yours
Urban Infidel wrote:
Another Bill Ayers fuck up.
spinmore wrote:
no. its not.
no one claims h’burg, except the debt collector and the bankruptcy judge.
fyi i also have hit pgh pretty hard here to for the 90plus years of democrat rule and the destruction that has caused in allegheny county…and we have hit detroit, dc, nyc, sf, cleveland, cinci, new jersey as well.
have i left anyone out?
coldwarrior wrote:
Keep your eye on Montgomery County, MD
spinmore wrote:
and furthermore, i have praised mayor rizzo and ed rendel…both phillie guys. so there!
pbbbbbbttttt!!!!
eaglesoars wrote:
why? does it do tricks? (sorry, reflex reaction to that phrase…)
off to the store!
bbl.
cant make pulled pork without bbq sauce, and i cant make better bbq sauce than sweet baby ray’s.
@ coldwarrior:
. . . i have always passed thru the PGH area at night on road trips either coming or going. Just a hand full of times over the years with the kids. Now that there’s one of three left in the nest -- not so many road trips (not to mention gas $)
Next pass-by me and the Mrs. will coordinate to meet for a beer somewhere
@ coldwarrior:
Believe it or not -- Nutter is about the best we can hope for here in Philly (he’s a pretty good egg for a (D) )
spinmore wrote:
i’m all for that…we may be going to NJ this spring depending on gas prices…will keep yinz posted!
bbl….store run!
nite-nite from the 3rd shifter
(give me strength)
Something is tickling my feeble mind.
Do you remember the almost-under-the-radar reports that the Obama admin had decided to write off the white, blue collar demographic (don’t ask me how the unions fit into this construct -- I don’t know).
Then here comes Breitbart saying he has video showing that racial division is at the core of Obama.
Here we see John Heilemann, characterizing the Republican party, as becoming progressively WHITER, BLUE COLLAR, POPULIST, UNEDUCATED (read ‘stupid).
Heilemann Falsely Claims GOP Becoming ‘Whiter,’ ‘More Blue Collar’ and ‘Less Well-Educated’
Anybody besides me see a pattern here?
I speak as the woman who warned that these people would try to fracture the relationship of parent and child via school lunch programs.
I was right then, and I suspect I’m right now.
@ eaglesoars:
No surprise that they think this way.
Jouralists are often pseudo intellectuals that went
to J School becuse they were weak in math skills.
Many just seem to pronounce themselves part of the
intellegencia and scoff at the common people.
Check that, they scoff at the “White” common common.
RIX wrote:
Politically and socially, there has always been a way to define ‘the other’.
I think I’m watching a re-defining of ‘other’. White, populist, blue collar and stupid.
Joe the Plumber (who is not stupid) writ large.
there’s another dynamic that Taranto defined for me. Oikophobia.
Why the liberal elite finds America revolting.
I’m not sure if the operative word is ‘liberal’ or ‘elite’
@ eaglesoars:
I think that we of the unwshed masses just ofend
elitists.
They suspect that we might frequent Walmart.
This is spewing out of the Culver City landfill right
now.
I hope that the DoD picks this up. CJ may not like it,
but his man crush hero did indeed vote for infanticide.
It doesn’t matter how musch he whines & tries to redfine
it, it is infanticide.
RIX wrote:
Ace’s takedown of Frum over Frum’s surly Breitbart obit (it’s one for the ages -- Christopher Hitchens is pitching a fit that he didn’t write it) was a revelation of sorts for me.
Balls. Andrew had them by the bucket-full. Most conservative men do. Most conservative women have more balls than most liberal men.
There’s a liberal FEAR of conservatism because of its confidence.
Anyway, I’m just thinking out loud.
RIX wrote:
White
Blue Collar
Populist
Uneducated
and now we’ll add angry -- as in unpredictably violent.
got it.
@ eaglesoars:
And you are thinking correctly.
@ eaglesoars:
It is ironic that Charlie tosses out this kind of
insult.
He never took a big helping of intellect. He saved
plenty of room for Cheetos & deep fried Twinkies.
eaglesoars wrote:
add bitter clingers
Rix do you have a link for your #41?
RIX wrote:
Line. Crossed.
I will NOT tolerate any insult to Twinkies, deep fried or otherwise.
coldwarrior wrote:
You left out important components.
Religion and guns.
gotta put food on the table. bbl
eaglesoars wrote:
we need religion and guns to cling to ’cause we is stoopit and dont trust the fedgov!
Chucky’s latest insanity: first it was Glenn Beck and the frog, now it’s Herman Cain
and a goldfish.
eaglesoars wrote:
new kitteh thread as well.
Polarizing.
Something the Liberal Socialists would never do…
eaglesoars wrote:
No sorry,but is the current post at LGF right now.
CJ is on a real disurbing rant.
@ eaglesoars:
One of the major food groups & goes great with a
beer for breakfast.
coldwarrior wrote:
The Gospel According To Saint John Moses Browning
The Osprey wrote:
And The Osprey doth preach the True Gospel!!!