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  • After Murtha

    04/26/2010 3:21:14 AM PDT · by Scanian · 7 replies · 492+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | May 3, 2010 | Jay Cost
    Pittsburgh Later this month, voters in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District will go to the polls to elect a replacement for John Murtha, who passed away earlier this year. The race promises to have major implications for the November midterms. Pennsylvania’s 12th District stretches for more than 100 miles across the southwestern corner of the state. Like the rest of greater Pittsburgh, the district has been trending Republican in recent decades, but voters here are not really “Reagan Democrats.” Whereas places like Macomb County, Michigan, famously swung to Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984, southwestern Pennsylvania voted for Jimmy Carter, then...
  • Off base? Since when is the TRUTH about Murtha off base?

    08/05/2006 12:39:57 PM PDT · by Psycmeistr · 1 replies · 232+ views
    Murtha Must Go!! ^ | August 5, 2006 | Leo Pusateri
    "Off base?" Since when is the truth "Off base"?It would appear that some PA newspapers will go to any length to protect their darling, John Murtha. Up to and including not only calling a spade a spade, but calling anything a spade! This from the Towanda, PA Daily & Sunday Review: Sherwood off base with ugly criticism of opponent’s backerRepublican Congressman Don Sherwood’s rebuke of his Democratic colleague, Rep. John Murtha — who, in the Scranton area Thursday, renewed his criticism of President Bush’s handling of the Iraq war — was an uncalled-for low blow. In a statement released...