Congressman Jim Gerlach

U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach , who is running for the PA Republican gubernatorial nomination against PA Attorney General Tom Corbett, has struck fear in the hearts of PA democrats for the 2010 PA gubernatorial race. U.S. Rep Gerlach's strong voting record in the U.S. congress promoting a strong economy, reducing the size of government, cutting taxes, and creating jobs is a a greater threat to any democratic candidate for PA governor. Laura Vecsey reports in The Patriot-News, that PA State Democratic Party Chair T.J. Rooney says Jim Gerlach would be a bigger challenge in 2010 to the democrats than Gerlach's Republican challenger for the ... Read Full Story

In August 2009, U.S. Rep Jim Gerlach , the only Republican PA gubernatorial candidate with proven results creating jobs, cutting taxes and cutting government waste, called on PA Attorney General Tom Corbett to either suspend his PA Republican gubernatorial campaign or resign his position as Attorney General. Despite raising money and political support for his gubernatorial effort since March from within the same political circles as those he is supposed to be investigating, Corbett officially announced his candidacy September 14 th and has refused to either step down as Attorney General or suspend his campaign. Attorney General Tom Corbett continues to fail to acknowledge ... Read Full Story

The above video is part 3 of an interview with PA Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach . See Political Policy posts dated 10/27/09 for part 1 of his interview and dated 10/29/09 for part 2 of his interview. In this final interview Rep. Gerlach outlines his leadership proposals on the following issues: Expanding PA Gaming - Rep. Gerlach recognizes the economic development gained with the slots online in PA, but is cautiously optimistic about expanding gaming in PA from a social values perspective. Before expanding gaming in PA Gerlach believes, "we need to wait and see what the social consequences are as ... Read Full Story

The above video is part 3 of an interview with PA Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach . See Political Policy posts dated 10/27/09 for part 1 of his interview and dated 10/29/09 for part 2 of his interview. In this final interview Rep. Gerlach outlines his leadership proposals on the following issues: Expanding PA Gaming - Rep. Gerlach recognizes the economic development gained with the slots online in PA, but is cautiously optimistic about expanding gaming in PA from a social values perspective. Before expanding gaming in PA Gerlach believes, "we need to wait and see what the social consequences are as ... Read Full Story

The above video is part 2 of the interview with PA Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach (see post on 10/27/09 for Part 1). In this interview Rep. Gerlach outlines his proposals for a solvent and ethical PA commonwealth by addressing: greater commonwealth fiscal responsibility and controls ending commonwealth "no bid" contracts, and strong commonwealth ethics laws, which have been woefully missing under the Rendell administration Rep. Gerlach also highlights his proposal for a 2-year commonwealth budget cycle"... to cut costs, increase accountability and avoid the annual budget soap opera, which for the last seven years has resulted in increased government spending and ... Read Full Story