THE POST GAZETTE MISSED THE BIG POINT: POLITICAL COURAGE WILL BE REQUIRED TO DEFEND THE INTERESTS OF THE WESTERN PA MIDDLE CLASS. LOBBYIST ALTMIRE REPEATEDLY HAS SHOWN HE LACKS THE COURAGE TO FIGHT FOR US!!

We citizen journalists never graduated from Journalism school.  So far be it for us to lecture a sanctified outlet of the Fourth Estate, but we do take great umbrage with the PG's endorsement of Lobbyist Jason Altmire.  The endorsement purposely overlooked the near unanimous endorsement by Labor of Mr. Critz.  We understand how many liberal globalists  may discount Western PA LABOR.  We don't!   There would be no Western PA Middle Class if it weren't for Western PA LABOR.  We are not in favor of adopting the profitable Chinese labor  model, a nearly  disenfranchised  slave labor,  in Western PA.  If the PG editorial board and Lobbyist Altmire want to challenge the relevancy of Western PA Labor, so be it.  We believe there is a very important difference on the  Health care issue between the two candidates.  Mr. Altmire is a slave of BIG HEALTHCARE.   While being a self-proclaimed expert on Healthcare, Altmire has carefully dodged the issue of fighting for affordable Healthcare for the Middle Classes while leveraging his OBAMACARE no vote to appear of Fox News and gain donations from Big Healthcare.  Not mentioned was Lobbyist Altmire's support for the balanced budget amendment.  The balanced budget amendment could kill our economic recovery by forcing extremist measures and gutting programs important to Western PA Seniors like Medicare and Social Security.   The balanced budget amendment would give Lobbyist Altmire cover not to work in the Western PA  Middle Class's interest, while he panders to our area's TEA PARTY voters and to his Big HEALTHCARE contributors.  As for Medicare,  we have continually warned Western PA Seniors to be wary of Lobbyist Altmire.  When push comes to shove, will Lobbyist Altmire vote in the interests of Western PA Seniors or for his BIG HEALTHCARE donors?   If you are a MEDICARE recipient,  you should not sleep well at night knowing that Lobbyist Altmire is your representative.  Critz was mentored by Jack Murtha, who was able to get Billions of dollars invested in this entire region.  Murtha was not afraid to use his political capital nor his reputation in the fight to bring more jobs to this area and to transform our region from a purely industrial economy to our modern economy of today.  The Western PA Middle Class is interested in job creation but not in a Congressman, like Jason Altmire,  who continually looks over his shoulder, enslaved by the BIG HEALTHCARE lobby, frightened by the TEA PARTY and constantly opportunistically positioning himself on the most current issue of the day.  We are also disappointed in the PG editorial board in not asking Lobbyist Atlmire why he remains a Democrat and how long he will remain a Democrat.   Post Gazette editorial board:  our editorial board of citizen journalists is interested in the welfare of the Western PA Middle Class.  Does political courage matter to you?   We find no political courage in Lobbyist Altmire's record.  Political courage may soon be required to protect the interests of the WESTERN PA MIDDLE CLASS.