Pennsylvania’s Best County Party Chairs

Written by Keegan Gibson, Managing Editor

Washington, DC - Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) today heralded a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to permit water authorities to send consumer confidence reports electronically, thereby eliminating an unnecessary government paperwork mandate, saving local communities across Pennsylvania millions of dollars .

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Congratulations to all of our Bucks County State Representatives and Senators who were named Committee Chairs for 2013/2014!! They are listed Below:

State House:

Children & Youth: Rep. Kathy Watson, 144th Legislative District

Education:  Rep. Paul Clymer, 145th Legislative District

Human Services: Rep. Gene DiGirolamo, 18th Legislati...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 – Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., has introduced legislation (S. 3678) to “help ensure the fiscal solvency of the FHA mortgage insurance programs of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.” Click Here to Read More

Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick accused the president of playing politics with the nation’s economic problems Tuesday, claiming that his “hard-line stance” to raise tax rates on the wealthy is an “ideological position that has taken priority over the practical need to generate more revenue.” Click Here to Read More

Unless Democrats can create a perfect storm — and we’re not talking Superstorm Sandy — defeating Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick doesn’t figure to be any more achievable two years from now.

Fitzpatrick, the 8th District Republican, won a third term Tuesday, defeating Democrat Kathy Boockvar by 13 percentage points and nearly 4...

A crowd that officials estimated was more than 20,000 braved the Bucks County cold Sunday night in hopes that Mitt Romney could loosen Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes that have been frozen in the grasp of Democrats since 1988.

Romney took turns highlighting his plans for job creation and bipartisanship while bashing President Barack Obama ...

Four years ago, Barack Obama won Bucks County by 8 points. Can he win again, or are we Mitt Romney country?

Crystal ball gazing is perilous, but examining trends between '08 and '10, and having talked with Democrats who watch this stuff closely, the trends do not bode well for President Obama. Click Here to Read More

The latest survey from Susquehanna Polling and Research shows the smallest margin yet of the race for U.S. Senate in Pa. Republican Tom Smith trails Sen. Bob Casey by just 2 points, 46 percent to 44, and the race is within the poll’s margin of error.

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If it was up to the crowd at Bucks County Republican Committee headquarters, Wednesday night’s winner of the first presidential debate was ... drum roll please ... Mitt Romney.

While the rest of the nation will be polled endlessly in the coming days as the nation digests what it saw in the 90-minute domestic policy debate, local Republicans ...

HARRISBURG — The Republicans need to capture only four seats to yank the U.S. Senate from Democratic control — and Pennsylvania could be one of them.

Now that the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race is on the national radar, the question is whether the Republican cavalry will support Tom Smith’s upstart campaign. 

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Upon my return to Bucks County from a tremendously successful Republican National Convention, I read with absolute dismay the article quoting County Commissioner Diane Marseglia as saying that President Obama’s opponents are, among other things, racist, angry, mean and stupid. Click Here to Read More

Pennsylvania’s recently enacted voter ID requirement is complicating the absentee ballot process for hundreds of voters in Bucks. Click Here to Read More

When Bill Pytleski asked Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick whether he would have supported the auto bailout, Fred Beans was only a few seats away. Beans, who has built an empire of car dealerships in Bucks and Montgomery counties, was devastated by the bailout, according to his daughter Beth Gilbert. Click Here to Read More

Bucks County’s Register of Wills, Donald Petrille, Jr., has been appointed to the Legislative Committee of the Registers of Wills and Clerks of Orphans’ Court Association of Pennsylvania for 2012-2013. Comprised of various members from Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, the association promotes greater efficiency in the administration of...

A huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, Rob Loughery recalls his favorite musician calling both the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections the most important of his lifetime.

Loughery, who’s been to about 10 Springsteen concerts and met the Boss after one of them in the Dean Dome in N.C., loves the music but disagrees with the political statement. Cl...

In his second week on the national Republican ticket, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will visit both ends of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, including a rally in the Philadelphia suburbs crucial to Mitt Romney‘s chances of winning statewide.

Ryan’s stop in West Chester follows a whirlwind week in battleground states introducing himself...

Pennsylvania’s most controversial law of the year is still planned to go into effect, after a ruling by Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson.

Simpson decided this morning and issued a 70-page opinion denying the plaintiffs an injunction to stop the law. Click Here to Read More

Mitt Romney has officially announced that Rep. Paul Ryan will be his running mate. This won't be the first pairing of the two politicos. They've already spent some time together on the campaign trail this year in support of Romney's presidential run.

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This weekend’s Super Saturday was a spectacular success for Team Pennsylvania, as hundreds of volunteers gathered in Victory Centers across the Commonwealth to help turn Pennsylvania red for Mitt Romney and the Republican team.  In Doylestown, Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick helped lead the charge, energizing the crowd to work toward victory this ...

With 100 days until the 2012 election, President Obama has a tenuous lead, but the struggling economy hurts his bid for a second term.

Obama leads Mitt Romney by a narrow margin in most national polls, and has a slightly wider lead in most swing states, giving Romney little room for error. But while Obama continues to lead Romney in personal likab...

Unemployment rose in June in six of 10 battleground states that could play a pivotal role in the presidential election, reflecting job cuts in some cases and weak payroll growth in others.

The jobless rate climbed a 10th of a percentage point last month in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire and Virginia, the Labor Department sai...

SHELOCTA, Pa. -- Tom Smith was mowing wheat on his 400-acre Armstrong County farm last summer when he decided he would run for U.S. Senate.

Smith was born and raised on this stretch of land an hour's drive outside Pittsburgh where coal mines neighbor corn farms, and he remembers wondering that day how the national debt would impact his grandchild...

GREENSBURG, Pa. -- When Mitt Romney campaigns at a rally in conservative, blue-collar Westmoreland County on Tuesday, Republican activist Mary Jo Silvis says she wants to see a more "expressive" side of the GOP nominee. Click Here to Read More

Can Twitter matter?

The Republican and Democratic parties think so. In this tight presidential race, a national battle is on. And the ammo includes thousands of tweets, 140-character messages shot off to hundreds of thousands of followers, a blizzard of news, talking points, zingers, datelines and instructions to the faithful. Click Here to Read M...

CORNWALL, Pa. — Finishing the second day of his bus tour in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, an impassioned Mitt Romney declared that he would carry the Keystone State this fall. Click Here to Read More

A federal bill inspired by the death of a Bucks County rescue squad member was approved by the House on Wednesday.

The legislation spearheaded by Bucks Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick provides death benefits to the families of nonprofit ambulance rescue squad members who die in the line duty. Click Here to Read More

The presidential race in Pa has tightened slightly, with Barack Obama clinging to a 6-point lead over Mitt Romney in the latest Q poll, so it's no wonder the president will be traveling this way next week. Click Here to Read More

To understand the power Harry Fawkes wielded as chair of the Bucks County Republican Committee, go back to 2004 when Jim Greenwood retired from Congress. Click Here to Read More

Bucks County Republicans gave Harry Fawkes an emotional sendoff Saturday and selected a new chair for the first time in four decades with the unanimous election of Pat Poprik.

Poprik, who has been a state committeewoman for the county since 1984, had been vice chair for four years until Saturday’s GOP committee reorganization meeting in Doyl...

HARRISBURG - The ranking Republican in the state Senate is backing a plan to expand the sale of liquor and wine in Pennsylvania, the bill's sponsor said Tuesday, while a bill to privatize the industry remained stalled in the House. Click Here to Read More

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Candi Ludwig is the face of Mitt Romney's hopes in Pennsylvania, a state Republicans would love to take away from President Barack Obama this fall. Click Here to Read More

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Smith used Friday's dismal jobs report to blame his opponent, incumbent Democrat Bob Casey, for the economy's tortoiselike turn around.

Smith, who has been slow to get the general election started after winning the GOP primary in late April, leapt at the opportunity to tie Casey to Barack Obama and the both o...

Today’s extremely troubling jobs report is yet another sad reminder that President Obama’s policies simply are not working—and that we need a president who understands the economy. Click Here to Read More

Mike Krancer, Pennsylvania's Secretary of Environmental Protection, suggested that President Obama's environmental regulators need to "back off" and let his office handle oil and natural gas regulations. Click Here to Read More

Mitt Romney has a commanding lead over President Obama among U.S. military veterans, according to a new poll released on Memorial Day.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee led the incumbent president 58-34 percent among U.S. veterans polled by Gallup over the past two months. The polling firm noted in its latest report that veterans, wh...

For the second year in row, a budget proposal drafted by Sen. Pat Toomey, was shut down by the Senate. The proposal, which was designed to balance the federal budget within the next eight years through a combination of tax reforms and spending cuts, was voted down along party lines, 42 for 57 against. Click Here to Read More

President Obama has housing issues, according to a poll released by the progressive group Campaign for a Fair Settlement. 48 percent disapprove of his handling of the housing and mortgage crisis while 38 percent approve. Click Here

Obama Promised A Net Spending Cut, But Instead Has Racked Up Government Spending To Unsustainable Levels

CANDIDATE OBAMA PROMISED A NET SPENDING CUT BY GOING THROUGH THE BUDGET “LINE BY LINE”

PROMISE: In 2008, Obama Promised A “Net Spending Cut” To The Federal Budget By Going “Through The Federal Budget Line By Line...

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner says the country is at odds with Washington lawmakers on the economy and people will see the evidence in the November election.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - As always, there’s a guessing game on vice presidential nominees, but this year our region is right in the middle of that game.

The field is wide open and this week Chris Christie once again suggested he might be willing to accept Mitt Romney’s nod for VP, if Romney offers it of course.

There are three other regio...

Update: Romney will be visiting a Pittsburgh area factory while he’s in the area. He’ll meet with supporters at noon at Sauereisen, a company that manufactures corrosion-resistant construction materials. The business is located across the Allegheny River in Fox Chapel.

President Obama's reelection campaign on Sunday stood by its controversial web video which questioned whether Mitt Romney would have approved the Usama bin Laden raid -- as a top Romney adviser accused the president of twisting a unifying moment into a "divisive, partisan, political attack."

With Newt Gingrich finally leaving the GOP Presidential race, Mitt Romney is now closer to realizing the ambition he has so long pursued: He has an even-money chance to become America's 45th President. He's more likely to fulfill that ambition if he overcomes his cautious nature and runs a campaign that is equal to America's current political mo...

U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) has co-sponsored an amendment that would increase transparency and accountability of government-sponsored conferences while imposing new travel limitations.

Montgomery County Democrats have out-registered Republican counterparts again.

However, the GOP made a slight dent in registration tallies when previously registered voters switched registrations to Republican.

US Attorney General Eric Holder's Ballot to Vote Offered to Total Stranger!!

WASHINGTON, DC. – Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick (R-8) voted on Thursday to pass the second budget proposal to come out of the House of Representatives in two years.

Barack Obama has worked hard to portray himself as better than your average politician—as someone who would fundamentally change the way Washington works.

Call it The Faceplant Heard ‘Round The Nation. CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who had earlier predicted that the Supreme Court would uphold the individual mandate, called the first half of oral arguments on the issue “a train wreck for the Obama administration,” and openly predicted that the court would overturn at least that p...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) today commended the bipartisan passage of the JOBS Act (H.R. 3606) in the U.S. Senate. The legislation, which passed 73-26, includes three job-creating bills authored by Sen. Toomey:

March 26 is the last day to register to vote in the April 24 primary election.

In the primary election, voters will cast ballots for president, U.S. Senate, state attorney general, auditor general, and treasurer, as well as U.S. House of Representatives, state House and Senate, and delegates to the Republican and Democratic national conventions.

As of today, the president who promised to cut the deficit in half has now racked up more new debt than any of his predecessors—and in less time.

Gov. Tom Corbett signed the voter ID bill into law today, hours after it was passed by the Pa. House. The controversial legislation will require voters to present photo identification at the polls. The State Senate passed it last week.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick today voted to pass H.R. 3606, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act.

This legislation represents a combination of several job creation measures aimed at increasing capital formation, spurring the growth of startups and small businesses, and paving the way for more small-scale business...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) announced today that his staff will hold a casework day in Bucks County from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 8.

During the casework event at the office of state Representative Marguerite C. Quinn, Sen. Toomey’s staff will be available to help constituents who are having problems with federal a...

Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Welch was in Pittsburgh today, taking President Obama and Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Casey to task on their energy policy decisions, including over-regulation, failure to approve the Keystone Pipeline, and investment in wind and solar instead of proven, readily obtainable sources of energy. Welch...

The Republican senator from Pennsylvania — the current one — may not be a well known as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), but in his own way he is a rising star.

WASHINGTON — No Republican presidential candidate — not even Mitt Romney — can amass enough delegates to secure the nomination in the next two months.

HARRISBURG, PA – Republican Party of Pennsylvania Chairman Rob Gleason Chairman released the following statement on the third anniversary of President Barack Obama signing the stimulus bill into law:

While most counties in Pennsylvania get three delegates to send to the Republican Convention, Bucks County will get a fourth this year — and no one can remember the last time that happened.

House Republican Policy Committee Chairman Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA) issued the following statement announcing the appointment of Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-08) to the House Republican Policy Committee. The Policy Committee is the incubator of creative, forward-thinking legislative initiatives focused on addressing the challenges facing American fa...