Election Results
Yesterday's Pennsylvania primary was certainly interesting. Andy Dinniman won the special election in Chester County for the State Senate seat which opened because of Sen. Thompson's recent death. A Democrat winning county wide in Chester County is news. The Chester County Democrats under Wayne Burton have made great strides in recent years. Andy was a popular County Commissioner and ran a very good race.
Patrick Murphy won the 8th CD race against Andy Warren. I'm not sure Andy ever really got a good campaign off the ground. I thought Murphy could be beaten but the Bucks Dems seemed deeply divided over this contest. The Murphy camp lost some key potential supporters early on when they began mass emailing people who hadn't signed on to the campaign. It seems someone passed along a trove of people's emails and phone numbers without first getting their permission.
Lois Murphy garnered about 75% of the vote in the 6th CD. I'm surprised Mike Leibowitz was able to garner 25%. I like him and ran into him everywhere. I must say Mike was a tireless campaigner. His conservative stance on many issues kept me squarely in the Murphy camp however. Go get Gerlach Lois. This is your year.
There were several bombshells in Pennsylvania Dutch country. In my State House district, the 130th, 20 year veteran Dennis Leh went down to a local gadfly. Chair of the House Finance Committee Leh was a lightning rod for anger at both the pay raise and the failure to do property tax reform. He seemed completely resigned to the fact he was going to lose when I spoke with him at the polls. He didn't even bother to get volunteers to work the polls for him. Glad to see this right-wingnut lose.
The shocker was the size of Chip Brightbill's loss. This wasn't even close. Mike Folmer, a tire salesman and darling of the evangelical GOP right wing of the GOP beat him 2-1. John Liss needs everyone's support this November to turn this seat Blue.
Other veteran lawmakers who lost regionally were Paul Semmel and Bob Allen. Both voted for the pay raise. Dante Santoni Jr. won re-nomination only because he had two primary opponents who split the vote against him. Neither of his opponents impressed me in any way.
I hear a lot of voter sentiment to throw the bums out. Voter anger was very evident. People came to vote carrying newspaper articles and lists of who to vote out.
Patrick Murphy won the 8th CD race against Andy Warren. I'm not sure Andy ever really got a good campaign off the ground. I thought Murphy could be beaten but the Bucks Dems seemed deeply divided over this contest. The Murphy camp lost some key potential supporters early on when they began mass emailing people who hadn't signed on to the campaign. It seems someone passed along a trove of people's emails and phone numbers without first getting their permission.
Lois Murphy garnered about 75% of the vote in the 6th CD. I'm surprised Mike Leibowitz was able to garner 25%. I like him and ran into him everywhere. I must say Mike was a tireless campaigner. His conservative stance on many issues kept me squarely in the Murphy camp however. Go get Gerlach Lois. This is your year.
There were several bombshells in Pennsylvania Dutch country. In my State House district, the 130th, 20 year veteran Dennis Leh went down to a local gadfly. Chair of the House Finance Committee Leh was a lightning rod for anger at both the pay raise and the failure to do property tax reform. He seemed completely resigned to the fact he was going to lose when I spoke with him at the polls. He didn't even bother to get volunteers to work the polls for him. Glad to see this right-wingnut lose.
The shocker was the size of Chip Brightbill's loss. This wasn't even close. Mike Folmer, a tire salesman and darling of the evangelical GOP right wing of the GOP beat him 2-1. John Liss needs everyone's support this November to turn this seat Blue.
Other veteran lawmakers who lost regionally were Paul Semmel and Bob Allen. Both voted for the pay raise. Dante Santoni Jr. won re-nomination only because he had two primary opponents who split the vote against him. Neither of his opponents impressed me in any way.
I hear a lot of voter sentiment to throw the bums out. Voter anger was very evident. People came to vote carrying newspaper articles and lists of who to vote out.
posted by PA progressive @ Wednesday, May 17, 2006
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