Altmire and Murphy together at last (Two partisan PA Congressmen to do joint town halls).

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | salena zito

[Salena Zito]

Who knew that newbie Democrat congressman Jason Altmire (4th District) and Republican congressman Tim Murphy (18th District) would ever "town hall" together? The reason there are no answers is because there were none to be found. Today Murphy and Altmire sent out a news release announcing that they would host two joint town hall meetings together:

[subterfuge]

So what is it about these two that make them “partisan?”

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Is it going to be a debate, or are they “reaching across the aisles”?

Murphy is my Congresscritter, and lately he’s been doing a series of telephone town halls. He said on the last one that they had 7,000 people on the phone, and typically he may draw a dozen or two at a physical meeting.

[SJSAMPLE]

Anybody remember the Liddy/Leary debates?
I saw one at the University of Michigan many years ago.
Very interesting stuff.

[Vigilanteman]

Pretty Boy Altmire had his seat purchased for him by George Soros. They flooded the Pittsburgh market (6 congressional districts) with misleading advertising about his opponent in the weeks before the 2006 election. There is no way he would have squeezed out a narrow win without that kind of help.

Tim Murphy, on the other hand, has been a respectable congressman ever since he got elected to represent our district, which is sandwiched between Altmire's district and Murtha's district. The Soros people are targeting him big time with a well-financed lawyer candidate.

I suppose the motivation behind the joint Town Hall is to put on an image that "We're both moderate and bi-partisan," in order to fend off strong challenges to both of them.