Hello everyone,

The election is a mere 82 days away and I need your help in my race up here in Pennsylvania. We’re waging a tough grassroots campaign in a swing district in the Pittsburgh suburbs. You can visit my webpage here. We have already knocked on several thousand doors across the district, but we need your help. This weekend we are going to be doing a massive lit dropping effort so if you live in or around Pittsburgh or can get here for the weekend we NEED your help. Contactme to get involved.

Here’s how you can help:
1. Join Mark’s Army and volunteer your time during the weekends in the run up to the election
2. Donate to the campaign
3. Make phone calls from home in support of Mark, contact Alex to find out how

I need your help to make sure we can send a strong message that enough is enough to politicians everywhere. Thanks.

My one time hope of ousting quite possibly the most incompetent governor in Pennsylvania history has slowly eroded away over the summer. While I have met Lynn Swann in person multiple times and believe him to be a decent man in his intentions, I can no longer deny that his gubernatorial bid has been one of the worst run campaigns I have ever witnessed, even worse than the Mike Fisher gubernatorial campaign of 2002, and that one was pretty bad.

The latest poll, released today, shows Rendell with a commanding 19 point lead over Swann. The Quinnipiac University survey has Rendell with a 57 to 38 percent lead among likely voters.

Rendell, a veteran - and prolific - fund-raiser, is also leading Swann in the money race. The governor has outraised Swann 4-to-1, with $13.7 million in his campaign account as of mid-June to Swann’s $3.2 million.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Swann has put his foot in his mouth many times in the form of television blunders and the hiring of too many stooges who are entrenched in the corrupt GOP in Harrisburg, which has turned many conservatives off to his candidacy. What’s really hurting him more than anything, though, is his campaign’s failure to communicate his vision to the people. A recent poll done by Quinnipiac (I can’t find it now, of course, to link it) found that 38% of voters didn’t know enough about Swann’s positions to form an opinion of him. This is actually an improvement from earlier in the summer when that number was over 50%. I don’t know how his campaign staff can not be attuned to this reality. Swann has a little over two months left and he and his staff better get cracking if they don’t want to suffer an embarrassing loss.

This is the first time in Pennsylvania history that we have an actual shot at knocking off an incumbent governor. It’s never happened before and doesn’t look like it will happen this time either. As I predicted earlier this year, it appears the corrupt State Republican Party has backed the wrong horse.

Praise be to Senator Santorum for standing strong against the embarrassing McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill. By opposing any amnesty, no matter how sugar-coated, Santorum has shown his dedication to representing the will of his constituents in this matter. A recent Strategic Vision poll shows that 79% of Pennsylvanians are against granting amnesty to illegal aliens and a whopping 82% of Pennsylvanians favor the building of a wall along the U.S. - Mexican border. Santorum’s challenger, supposed conservative Democrat, Bob Casey Jr, approves of the McCain-Kennedy sham, accenting even more the reason why Pennsylvania voters should choose to stick with Rick in November. Senator Specter and President Bush should also take note of these numbers coming out of the Keystone State.

10. Do you favor granting amnesty to illegal immigrants currently living in the United States?
Yes 14%
No 79%
Undecided 7%

11. Do you favor building a wall at the southern border of the United States to secure the southern border with Mexico?
Yes 82%
No 10%
Undecided 8%

Strategic Vision