“It looks like Jim Bognet needs to resort to misrepresenting the facts in an attempt to gain traction,” Marsicano added. He, like Granville’s campaign, continues to slam Bognet for his association with Romney and dubs him as a “RINO.” Marsicano also adds that the Kids for Cash scandal was “tragic and disgrace” to the country and state and said that he had no part in it. As I have stated multiple times since I began my campaign, I am a walkaway Democrat.” “Anyone who knows me or has talked to me knows that I am a conservative and always have been. “Jim Bognet conveniently omits that my campaign has $275,000 cash on hand, and only compares himself to candidates who have more limited resources,” Marsicano said in a statement. Hillary Clinton in 2016 is “ridiculous” as he touts himself being a “walkaway Democrat” who “proudly voted” for Trump in 2016. Marsicano’s campaign addresses multiple claims made in the memo by saying the claim that he supported Sec. Bognet back to northeast Pennsylvania and congratulate him on tapping his DC network of fellow Mitt Romney alumni to fund his campaign,” said Matt Beynon, advisor to the Granville campaign. Including work for Mitt Romney, who has become a persona non grata in Trumpworld since the Senator’s vote to impeach. Most notably, it attempts to tie him to the infamous “Kids for Cash” scandal because he worked as a pilot for Robert Powell, who owned the juvenile facilities (Marsicano has never been accused of wrongdoing in the case).īoth the Granville and Marsicano campaign fired back, noting Bognet’s years of campaign work outside PA. Lou Barletta (R-Luzere) and dings him on previous fundraising issues. Granville is also criticized in the memo for trailing Bognet in the most recent fundraising report.įormer Hazleton Mayor Mike Marsicano is also in the crosshairs of the Bognet memo, which takes aim at his Democratic candidacy in 2016 against then-Rep. The memo cites an old social media post from Earl Granville, a decorated combat veteran and veterans’ advocate who received the endorsement of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), where he claimed he was “not a super Trump-Tard” and that he didn’t vote for Trump, while blasting the media. In it, Bognet brands himself a “Trump Republican,” touts his Q1 fundraising, and paints two other candidates as anti-Trump candidates that have “major vulnerabilities.” The memo was first uncovered by The Hill. Jim Bognet, a former Trump administration appointee and one of the six Republicans seeking his party’s nomination, released a “State of the Race” campaign memo boasting about his 1st quarter fundraising, while delivering direct shots to a few of the other perceived frontrunners in the race. Matt Cartwright (D-Lackawanna), several frontrunners are now taking aim at one another starting with the release of an internal memo. The most competitive primary in Pennsylvania is officially heating up.Īfter months of Republican campaigns taking shots at Rep.
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