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Welch Quits (Pa) 6th District Race
BillLawrenceOnline.Com ^ | 2-20-10

Posted on 02/20/2010 1:52:11 PM PST by Tribune7

Chester County businessman Steven Welch announced this morning that he is ending his quest to represent Pennsylvania's 6th District in Congress preventing what could have been a costly primary battle with incumbent Jim Gerlach.

(Excerpt) Read more at billlawrenceonline.com ...


TOPICS: Pennsylvania; Campaign News; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; pa2010
I only heard good things about Welch but it's probably best to avoid a bloody primary fight.
1 posted on 02/20/2010 1:52:11 PM PST by Tribune7
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ping


2 posted on 02/20/2010 1:52:34 PM PST by Tribune7 (Only stupid, racists people support Obama.)
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This is a helpful development. I’m sure that Welch would have been a good Congressman, but this wasn’t his year. Hopefully he has a future in politics.


3 posted on 02/20/2010 2:05:59 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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OK, please enlighten us, because the blog page doesn't. Are Welch and Gerlach Republicans or Democrats? If we don't live in PA, we would have no idea.

Just curious, about it, but in the interest of information, it would have been useful to put that in the body of the thread.

4 posted on 02/20/2010 2:25:14 PM PST by SuziQ
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Indications are they are GOP.


5 posted on 02/20/2010 3:27:52 PM PST by bamagirl1944 (That's short for Alabama, not Obama)
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They're Pubs. Actually, Gerlach is a bit of a RINO. The district is a bizarrely drawn section of Suburban Philly.
6 posted on 02/20/2010 4:49:18 PM PST by Tribune7 (Only stupid, racists people support Obama.)
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I wouldn’t have minded seeing Gerlach go down if Welch is more conservative (is he?). But he probably wouldn’t have beaten him.


7 posted on 02/21/2010 3:12:32 AM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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The conservatives I know who know Welch have a high opinion of him.


8 posted on 02/21/2010 5:08:42 AM PST by Tribune7 (Only stupid, racists people support Obama.)
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