Hopefully democrats will pick up on the need for cooperation throughout all levels of the 2008 elections. It would be nice, but I won’t be holding my breath.
The national Democratic Party will suffer if it focuses too much on the state’s urban cores, while the GOP is coordinating in potential Democratic strongholds like Northeast PA.

The state and national Republican Party will open campaign offices throughout Pennsylvania in July, including one today in Luzerne County.

Pennsylvania Victory, a state organization operating on federal party funds, signed an agreement with congressional candidate Chris Hackett on Wednesday to sublease 936 square feet of the 1,183-square-foot office space.

Hackett’s campaign has rented the space at Dallas Shopping Center since October at a rate of $650 per month. PA Victory will pay up to 90 percent of that total beginning this month. A Hackett staffer will still be housed in the office and Hackett will continue to rent an office at the Twin Stacks office facility just north on Route 415.

Hackett, of Kingston Township, faces incumbent freshman U.S. Rep. Chris Carney, D-Dimock Township, this fall in a competitive race for the state’s 10th Congressional District seat. The PA Victory staffers will assist the Hackett campaign and push the get-out-to-vote efforts for presidential candidate John McCain and area GOP state representatives like Karen Boback of Harveys Lake.