There’s a clear difference between Manan Trivedi and Jim Gerlach.
And we are still waiting to hear about Gerlach’s jobs plan. So far, all we are hearing are *crickets*.
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The Real Jim Gerlach
When confronted with the real issues that effect Americans, Gerlach cuts and runs.
From a recent email…
Manan challenged Congressman Gerlach to six debates. He turned down invitations from a number of groups and only accepted two.
At the first debate, Manan said it was fine for the media to record. Congressman Gerlach refused to allow the press to audio or video record. His campaign told the press that “[W]e didn’t see a benefit for us.”
Well the news media wasn’t going to tolerate it anymore and they showed up with their cameras rolling to last night’s debate. And there was something interesting they caught.
Manan asked Congressman Gerlach why he keeps supporting tax breaks for outsourcing our jobs overseas. Manan pressed Gerlach on taking $700,000 from special interest groups. He had no comment. This is what is known as the “Silent Confession of Guilt.”
So following the debate, we decided to launch our latest ad because we think the public has a right to know what Jim Gerlach has been doing to the rest of us since he went to Washington.
We have less than three weeks to go before Election Day and we need your help now more than ever to make sure everyone knows what Jim Gerlach is hiding.
When you make a contribution today, it will help keep the public pressure on him.
Jim Gerlach has to answer for his failed record. He has to answer to us. He has to answer to the press. And we can’t let him hide.
Thanks for all your support.
Ed
PS – Even a $25 contribution will go a long way. Please donate.
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Ed Niles
Campaign Manager
Trivedi for Congress
info@trivediforcongress.com
office: 610-370-9489
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Job Creation – Updated
The “Man with the Plan”, that man would be Manan.
From the Reading Eagle:
Trivedi said job growth would be his No. 1 mission as representative of the 6th Congressional District, which is made up of parts of Berks, Chester, Montgomery and Lehigh counties.
“Small businesses become big businesses,” Trivedi told a caller from Reading.
Those potential big businesses, he said, are in the growing field of clean energy, where the United States has fallen behind.
“Countries like India and China are doing it,” he said of the alternative energy industry. “America’s not doing it.”
Trivedi, a physician from Union Township who served in the Iraq War, also discussed the local transportation crisis and the need for more school funding.
He said a proposed commuter rail line between Wyomissing and the Philadelphia suburbs is essential for people in Berks to access jobs nearer to Philadelphia.
“I don’t know how many of you have driven Route 422, but it’s a parking lot,” Trivedi said. “I try to avoid it like the plague. But people need it to get to work.”
Jim Gerlach’s plan… ***crickets*** We’re still waiting.
Here’s more from Manan.
While he’s a native Pennsylvanian where coal is king, Trivedi says without hesitation – and repeated several times during our discussion – that “we need to move away from carbon-based emissions and foreign energy.” While Gerlach’s congressional Web site talks about the importance of clean energy and energy independence, as I noted last week, his campaign Web site is decidedly less friendly to the environment. In fact, while there is no “Issues” section of Gerlach’s site (there is a head-to-head comparison that omits anything about energy or the environment and is written in lowbrow, heavy-handed prose), his “Achievements” section crows that he voted “NO on Obama/Pelosi Cap and Trade bill that will raise energy rates and kill Pennsylvania jobs.”
And yet, still ***crickets*** from Gerlach.
This is Dr. Mark P. Campbell, Spokesman for Congressman Jim Gerlach.
This is a quote by Mark Campbell about Manan Trivedi from “The Hill”:
“What we are saying is that Trivedi is a far-left fringe candidate who does not share the common-sense values of the taxpayers, families or seniors of the 6th district,” said Gerlach campaign spokesman Mark Campbell.
“The only one who has played the race card here is him, by going to Indian-American groups to raise money,” said Campbell.
and
“doesn’t share our values.”
What values are those, Mark?
These Values?
Or Perhaps These Values?
I suppose this means if Manan Trivedi shouldn’t go after money from the Indian-American community, Jim Gerlach shouldn’t go after PAC money?
Total PAC Money for 2010: $757,507 (from opensecrets.org: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/pacs.php?cycle=2010&cid=N00025025&newMem=N)
I’m guessing they decided to call a Decorated Iraq War veteran who happens to be Indian-American a “terrorist” like they did to Lois Murphy was a bad idea so this is their way of planting the seed. See? He’s not like us, he doesn’t share our values.
Sound Familiar?
It’s time we demand Jim Gerlach answer this question:
Do you agree? Is Mark Campbell speaking on behalf of your beliefs? Do you feel that brown people don’t “share our values”?
We need to call on Congressman Gerlach to fire Mark Campbell. Unless, of course, he shares in these “values”.
Please sign this petition calling on Congressman Gerlach to answer to these statements or fire Mark Campbell!
Learn where the Republicans stand on issues that effect all of us here. You’ll want to read that link.
Even though 85% of Americans want the Government to keep their hands off of Social Security, the Republicans are looking forward to getting their greedy hands on our money and handing it over to their friends on Wall Street. Remember, Wall Street stole our 401K money and how former President Bush immediately called for the Government to bail out his rich friends on Wall Street. The TARP money, Wall Street bailout was President George W. Bush’s plan to save our economy.
One more thing, if the Bush tax breaks for the rich was meant to create jobs as the Republicans claim, then why was there a net loss in jobs during the Bush years? If these tax breaks really created jobs, there wouldn’t be a 9.5% unemployment rate.
Republicans are like the street scammers with the walnut shells. Always up to tricks to take your money and make themselves rich.
Social Security keeps 20 million Americans out of poverty. If the Republicans get a hold of this money, 20 million more Americans will be living in the streets. We cannot afford a Republican controlled Congress. Vote Joe Sestak for Senate and Manan Trivedi for the PA 6th Congressional District. Re-elect Patrick Murphy. These Democrats got our back. They are all veterans that served our nation with honor and put their lives on the line to protect Americans. They walk the walk and deserve to continue to fight for us in Washington DC.
Pay attention: Pat Toomey supports oil drilling in Lake Erie. Yes, Pennsylvania shores along Lake Erie can look like the oil covered beaches of Louisiana.
Press release from PA 6th Congressional District Candidate, Manan Trivedi…
Manan Trivedi to Rep. Gerlach: Do you have the courage?
MEDIA RELEASE
2.10.2010
Ed Niles, Campaign Manager
610-370-9489
READING, Pa – The following is a statement from 6th district Democratic candidate for congress, Manan Trivedi on the President Obama’s proposed health care summit and the refusal by House Republican Leadership to commit to attending.
“President Obama, in an unprecedented move, has offered to host a publicly televised health care summit to finally come with a solution for health care reform, and so far, Republican leaders in the House are unwilling to attend. I hear the Republicans in Washington clamoring about wanting an open and transparent process, and just when President Obama makes a bold and transformational gesture to meet their demands, they change their minds.”
“What I don’t hear is Congressman Gerlach standing up to his leaders in Washington and demanding they come to the table and solve our health care problem. What I don’t hear is Congressman Gerlach’s conviction to do what is right. And what I clearly don’t hear from Congressman Gerlach, is a public servant who is willing to listen to the public he is supposed to represent. Congressman Gerlach, do you have the courage to tell your leaders in Washington to meet with President Obama on television and fix our health care crisis?”
“As millions of people go without health care today, Gerlach and the Republicans in Washington who tell him what to do, play political games with American’s lives. As a physician, I have dealt first-hand with the harsh reality of those who are forced to go without health care. And when I am in Congress, I will never let an opportunity to improve our health care system slip by for the sake of political posturing.”
Manan Trivedi is a primary care physician, a former Lt. Commander in the Navy and an Iraq War veteran.
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