From our friend Josh Drobnyk...
Sen. Bob Casey and Gov. Ed Rendell, adversaries during the Pennsylvania primary, have both received speaking roles at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night.Casey’s role is particularly significant considering the controversy surrounding his late father’s non-role at the 1992 convention because of his opposition to abortion rights.
Here’s the release today from the DNCC... read more »
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has introduced a bill to create federal grants to hire guidance counselors for secondary schools with dropout rates of 40 percent or higher.The legislation would instruct the Department of Education to start a demonstration program authorizing $6 million a year for four years to help the schools hire the counselors. The first five schools chosen to participate would each be located in a different state. At least 10 schools would participate in the demo project.
American public secondary schools have an average counselor-to-student ratio of one to 476. Mr. Casey said his legislation would help benefiting schools to achieve ratios of one to 250, as recommended by the American Counseling Association. read more »
The federal government is so poorly staffed to investigate oil speculation and price gouging that its agents might as well be “cops going after criminals with water pistols,” said U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr.In a meeting Monday with the Bucks County Courier Times’ editorial board, the Pennsylvania Democrat called for a national effort to define price gouging and make it illegal.
Responding to questions about the price of home heating oil, Casey also suggested a needed expansion of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program known as LIHEAP. read more »
Can softball make Congress a nicer place and maybe help end gridlock?That’s the pitch, so to speak, according to U.S. Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Bob Casey, D-Pa., who joined their staffs Tuesday evening for a softball game whose tradition dates to the early ’70s. read more »
The real point is that Senator Casey backed the man who will eventually be the Democratic nominee and perhaps the next president. That’s worth a lot more than a bit of bruising in his home state. No big deal.
On the surface, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey looks like one of the biggest losers in the Democratic presidential contest.The state’s junior senator backed Sen. Barack Obama — and traveled with him across the state — and Obama lost by 9 percentage points to Sen. Hillary Clinton statewide. In Lackawanna, Casey’s home county, Clinton crushed Obama by a 74 percent to 26 percent margin. read more »
In his courtship of Pennsylvania voters during his bus tour, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama had a wingman: Sen. Bob Casey Jr.They hung out in a bowling alley and a sports bar. They spent hours on Obama’s campaign bus, slammed into each other on the basketball court, and teased each other like brothers. They demonstrated such an affection that some members of the traveling party labeled them BFF, the text-message abbreviation for “best friends forever.”
“I just love the guy,” Obama remarked in an interview.
I’m totally jealous that Brett was at the MTP studio this morning.
We’re just back from NBC’s Washington studios, where U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. and Gov. Ed Rendell faced off on “Meet the Press” over Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.Actually Casey was in studio with host Tim Russert while Rendell was on via satellite from Philadelphia.
If you were looking for fireworks between the two one-time rivals ala their 2002 contest for the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania governor, you were sadly disappointed.
Carl Romanelli is going to Washington, and he’s hoping to take down an entire political party on his way there.While planning to appeal his yearlong legal battle to the U.S. Supreme Court, he announced on Thursday his assault on the Democratic Party, starting with its members in the state judiciary. read more »
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