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We are entering the home stretch until Election Day and Jim Gerlach

(PA - Financial Services & Transportation) wanted to reach out and ask for
your support. It is looking like they will be done the last week of
September so these will possibly be his last events other than 1-2 in
September. We appreciate any support you may have left for Jim.
Please find below a recent article about the current campaign news in
Pennsylvania. Even though Jim is not a top 5 target as he usually is; the
dynamics of his district are still very difficult for a Republican and your
support WILL make a difference.
July 16 (Wed) - Breakfast (8:30) at 421 New Jersey Ave, SE Suggested
contribution: $1,000 per PAC/$500 per Individual
July 24 (Thur) - Small Dinner at the Capital Grille (6:15 p.m.) ***Limit
of 5 to 6 attendees*** Suggested contribution: $2,000 per PAC/$1,000
per Individual
July 30 (Wed) - Happy Hour Reception (5:00 p.m.) at Sonoma
***Limited to 6 attendees*** Suggested contribution: $1,000 per
PAC/$500 per Individual July 31 (Thur) - Breakfast (8:30) at the
Capitol Hill Club Suggested contribution: $1,000 per PAC/$500 per
Individual
If you're interested in more information or co-hosting any of these events,
please let me know. or if these dates don't work, I can get you some 1-1
times.
Thanks so much and I look forward to seeing you soon, Mike Michael
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DEMOCRATS CONTINUE OUTPACING GOP IN PENNA.

By Derrick Nunnally
Inquirer Staff Writer
In the two months since Pennsylvania's April 22 primary, Democrats have
added more voters than Republicans in all but five of the state's 67
counties and increased their statewide lead by 40,566 voters by the end of
last week.
Republicans have lost nearly 1,500 registered voters since the primary.
The trend is especially pronounced in Philadelphia's suburbs, where
Democratic leads acquired in Montgomery and Bucks Counties in the
primary season have already grown. In Montgomery County, Democratic
Commissioner Joseph M. Hoeffel III reacted with some glee to numbers
that showed his party had increased its advantage from 10,001 voters on
April 22 to 13,784 as of yesterday.
"It should humble some of the braggarts of the Republican Party," he said,
"and confirm that the county is changing."
The continuing Democratic groundswell appears to challenge the notion
that the primary voter rolls were distorted by Republican stalwarts who
made a temporary switch to affect the Democratic outcome. If Republicans
who crossed over to vote in the Democratic primary are returning to the
fold, their numbers appear to be subsumed by Democratic gains.
"That's part of the long-term trend," Chris Borick, a professor of political
science at Muhlenberg University, said of the post-primary Democratic
registrations. "The primaries were, if you look at it, a peak or a little bit of a
spike, but they weren't some kind of outlier event."
In several counties, Republicans are just beginning to move to try to
recapture lost ground.
Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach's campaign began a "huge voter-
registration test pilot program" to target Chester County ex-Republicans
only two weeks ago, said Mark Campbell, his political director.
In Bucks County, where Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 3,706 on
April 22 and by 6,620 as of Saturday, GOP leaders haven't yet begun a
planned effort to shepherd home their lost sheep.
"We haven't pushed yet to send out letters and talk to them," said Harry
Fawkes, Bucks County's Republican chairman for 36 years. "A lot of them,
we're hoping, will come back. I can't predict it. We're going to try to do it."
There is no widespread optimism among Republicans that the effort will
stem the Democratic tide.
In part, that's because the post-primary numbers are markedly one-sided.
The largest Democratic voter gain in a single county was in heavily
Democratic Allegheny, where the lead over Republicans has increased by
4,016 since April 22.
By contrast, of the five counties where Republicans added more voters
than Democrats, the largest differential was 23 voters in Indiana County.
In each of the five counties where Democrats gained most - Allegheny,
Philadelphia, Montgomery, Berks and Delaware - they added more than
3,000 voters.
Also, with no party primary looming, estranged Republicans do not seem
to have much motivation to change back their registration. In the post-
machine era of many Pennsylvania counties, showing fealty might be just
an empty gesture.
"I'm just not sure that people consider registration as important as in the
past," said Bob Asher, the longtime state Republican power broker.
"There's just a lot more people that vote more of an independent streak and
not necessarily a straight party, so they don't really feel that's important."
Oct. 6 is the deadline to register to vote in the November election.
The tide of Democratic registrations in the Philadelphia suburbs has not
been matched by new independent or third-party registrations, suggesting
that the change may be decidedly partisan. Montgomery County, for
example, has gained about 1,000 more Democrats since April 22 than it
has independent and third-party registrants combined.
"It's become expected now, but even three or four years ago it seemed
really unlikely that Montgomery County would be a place where Democrats
are becoming the majority," Borick said. "Think about Pennsylvania long-
term. That just seems to be a sea change."




CONGRESSMAN GERLACH IS ON THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEES
AND SUB-COMMITTEES:
House Committee on Financial Services Capital Markets, Insurance &
Government Sponsored Enterprises Financial Institutions & Consumer
Credit
House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure Aviation Highways &
Transit Railroads, Pipelines & Hazardous Materials




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