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A pair of Democratic heavy hitters will visit Philadelphia Monday to help congressional candidate Bryan Lentz in his bid to keep the Seventh Congressional District seat blue.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will headline a luncheon fundraiser at the Sheraton at 17th and Race Streets in Philadelphia at noon. It’s $1,000 to get in the door, and at least $5,000 if you want a chance to mingle with Biden and Pelosi. As many as 200 people are expected to attend, said Lentz campaign spokesman Vincent Rongione.
Lentz’s opponent, Patrick Meehan, is already using the event to tie Lentz to Pelosi, Washington, higher taxes, healthcare and basically all things voters love to hate right now. Meehan’s campaign ran an ad on AM radio (KYW 1060 and WPHT 1210) and some internet sites Thursday and Friday that features Pelosi in a ringleader hat. It is here: youtu.be/ijit2iXlZfM
“Haurry, haurry, haurry,” a man says over circus music at the start of the 60-second ad. “The Nancy Pelosi political circus is coming to town. Coming to our area to support “Phila-liberal Bryan Lentz.”
“And the ticket price is … HIGH.”
The ad tries to paint Lentz, a two-term state representative, as a tax and spend liberal and tie him to Pelosi, who gets strong negative ratings from Republican voters (a recent poll showed that 74 percent of Republicans strongly disapprove of her performance, according to the Washington Post).
While Meehan may make some ad hay from the Pelosi trip, Lentz aims to make money. Both Pelosi, and especially Biden, are strong fundraisers, said Randall Miller, a professor and political historian at St. Joseph’s University.
“This is, after all, the biggest thing: what Lentz needs right now is money,” Miller said.
Lentz and Meehan are locked in what is one of the closest watched Congressional races in nation this year. The seat is open after Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak left to run for U.S. Senate.
Meehan, a Republican and former U.S. Attorney, is well-known in Delaware County, where the district is centered. Lentz, a former Army ranger and assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, is the county’s strongest Democratic candidate (with the exception of Sestak).
Meehan will have his own national figure at a campaign event Monday evening when former New York City mayor and 2008 presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani drops by. The event is expected to involve a handful of people who will meet with Giuliani for dinner and a cigar smoke at the Union League on South Broad Street.
Biden is a good man but Lentz is doing himself more harm than good by inviting Pelosi. She is the face of Tax and Spenders who just fired the House Chaplin for refusing to stop using Jesus name is prayers. I am an atheist but even I know if you have to have a Chaplin then he/she is at least going to say prayers........— Earl J
I refused to buy my daughter a Taylor Swift poster because it was from the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and had Nancy Pelosi's name on it! No way am I going to look at her name everyday on my daughters wall! Hey Taylor Swift, come out with a new poster, PLEASE, I am sure Taylor is losing more sales than just mine!— jcmm- All of the democrats in congress voted with pelosi on obama's bills. if they didn't vote for then their votes weren't needed for passage and pelosi left them off the hook.— jasjfarrell
- Can someone elaborate on this chaplin firing - I had not heard about that.— gone with the wind
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"The Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical congress in history" -Nancy Pelosi. EPIC FAILURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!— AuH20- Rauol Duke are you serious? At what point are the Dems for the middle class? How is raising our real estate taxes while spending money for unions helping the middle class? Cutting taxes and spending will help the middle class, we dont need hand outs we need new and better jobs. Open your eyes and stop voting for political parties, but vote for people that have sound ideas and common sense.— skills
- $5,000 a plate for limousine liberals. Hmmm. How much would it cost to get Pelosi and Reid to go away?— MaggieL
- I hope they get food poisoning while they're here.— BlairW
All they'll do is tie up traffic downtown for a while. Idiot DemoRats! Patrick Meehan is a good man and deserves the job. Vote for him.— Sluggo
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