Iraq war vet Bryan Lentz will run against Curt Weldon in PA

[BurtWorm]

http://www.lentzforcongress.com/index.htm




About Bryan Lentz

Born and raised in southeast Pennsylvania, Bryan Lentz learned early in life about service to country and community.

The great-grandson and grandson of combat veterans, Bryan is himself a decorated Army veteran who served with distinction in the Iraq War and with MFO and NATO peacekeeping missions in the Sinai Peninsula and Bosnia, where he oversaw millions of dollars in infrastructure development, including the first-ever Russian, Romanian, Muslim and Serbian joint bridge and road projects. Among his official commendations is the War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and the Bronze Star.

In his civilian life, Bryan served for six years as a prosecutor with the Philadelphia District Attorney's office, where he earned a tough reputation for his wide-ranging prosecution of gang members, rapists, and other violent offenders. Since 1999, Bryan has worked as an attorney in private practice.

A graduate of Wissahickon High School, where he played football and was a member of the track and field team, Bryan earned his Associates degree from the Valley Forge Military Academy and won a full army scholarship to Georgetown University, where he played varsity football and earned his B.A. in philosophy in 1986. After several years of active duty in the army, Bryan earned his law degree from Temple University.

An avid hunter and fisherman, Bryan casts a long shadow in greater southeast Pennsylvania, having worked with the Big Brothers program at Temple University Law School and coached basketball for a group home in west Philly, and maintaining an active presence with the 82nd Airborne Association and the Philadelphia District Attorneys Alumni Association.

Bryan's family also has deep roots in eastern Pennsylvania. His father, Martin Lentz, who is a well-regarded Philadelphia attorney, was the family's first paratrooper and was mobilized in 1962 to help integrate the University of Mississippi. Bryan's mother, Bonnie Minehart Lentz, is the daughter of a well-known city surgeon and the niece of a former Philadelphia city councilman and chair of the state Democratic party.

Bryan's grandmother, Margaret Purcell Minehart, a coalminer's daughter, was a registered nurse famous throughout coal country for treating miners for their crush injuries; family legend has it that she was the grandniece of a Molly McGuire.

Bryan takes great pride in his role as a citizen activist. His experience defending America in the war on terror, and his commitment to the progressive, centrist values that southeast Pennsylvania residents widely share, make him a tough and able advocate for the voters of the seventh congressional district.

[BurtWorm]

1. He's a Democrat. Better him than Weldon!

About The Race
Pennsylvania's Seventh Congressional District covers the suburbs just outside Philadelphia in Delaware County and parts of Montgomery and Chester counties.

The district -- like most of the Philadelphia suburbs -- has undergone significant demographic change over the past ten years as tech and pharmaceutical industries have moved to the area. Once safely Republican, the district now trends Democratic. Bill Clinton won the Seventh District twice; Al Gore won it in 2000; John Kerry carried the district with 53% in the last presidential election; and Governor Ed Rendell earned 64.3% of its votes in the 2002 state election cycle.

The residents of the Seventh District deserve a congressman who represents their moderate values.

As Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a senior member of the Homeland Security and Energy Committees, Curt Weldon has rubber-stamped the Bush administration's agenda, alienating us from former allies abroad, weakening important agencies like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers, and stretching our military dangerously thin.

As a senior Republican in Congress, Weldon has also voted down the line for George Bush's disastrous economic agenda. Today, we can thank Curt Weldon for higher oil and gas prices, a more volatile job market, a crisis in health insurance, and mounting federal deficits that will saddle our children and grandchildren for decades to come.

Weldon's affiliation with radical right-wing politicians like Tom Delay and Rick Santorum places him well outside the Seventh District's moderate consensus.

As a former prosecutor and decorated veteran of the Iraq War, Bryan Lentz shares the values of his neighbors in the Seventh District: service to country and community, good schools and quality health care, a clean environment, an equitable tax structure, and a smart, successful war against terror.

With your help, Bryan will bring the citizens of the Seventh District together and put an end to the failed and divisive policies that Curt Weldon has played such a key part in designing.

[Rowdyboy]

2. Looks like an excellent chance for a pick-up. thanks for posting this,

especially the backup with the district's recent voting history

[BurtWorm]

3. I think it is an excellent prospect.

Taking down Weldon would be a sweet way to do it, too!

It would be great to find an Iraq vet to run against DeLay, wouldn't it?

[Rowdyboy]

5. Oh, God, that would be fine......so fine....but I'll settle for Nick

Lampson

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Yay!

Another Paul Hackett! I can't wait to watch this race! I hope he wins!