A Tale Of Two Candidates: 'Reform' Republican Vs. Progressive Democrat in PA-7

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http://crooksandliars.com/node/36062

By Susie Madrak Friday Apr 02, 2010 3:00pm

Here's an everyday Philadelphia-area political story with all kinds of potential ripple effects, so let's get to it.

Bryan Lentz is the progressive PA state legislator who was originally supposed to run for Curt Weldon's 7th District seat in 2006, but was asked to step aside by Rahm & Friends to allow Joe Sestak (who'd been away from the 7th for 28 years while in the Navy) to run. (Which is why I'm not too sympathetic to Joe running against Arlen Specter on his claim that we can't let the Democratic "party bosses" pick our candidates. Except when the candidate's Joe. But whatever.)


Anyway, now that Sestak isn't running for reelection, it's Lentz's turn. But even if he gets the nomination, he still has to win the general election against Patrick Meehan, the former Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District. And here's where the story gets interesting:

[hootinholler]

1. Thanks for this!

The last paragraph sums it up nicely!

So you have the Great Republican Reformer, running against a progressive Democrat for Congress with a bunch of machine-delivered and probably-forged nominating petitions, and the Democrat is demanding that the Obama administration investigate. Because the Republican state attorney general, who's also running for governor and is counting on the Delco machine to deliver votes, has what you might call a blatant conflict of interest.

-Hoot