Mike Long

10/24/1994 Daily News --

"We believe it's a certainty we'll increase ourmajority," says Republican strategist Mike Long. "The only question is how big themajority will be."

5/8/1995 Daily News --

A senior aide to Gov. Ridge and two top SenateRepublican staffers are off the hook in a Philadelphia political-dirty-tricks probe. Thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a political case in another state, Ridgeaide Maria Keating Titelman, Senate GOP counsel Stephen MacNett and Senate GOPstaff chief Mike Long face no threat of election-code violations. All three werelinked to a phony brochure and political action committee in the 1993 2ndSenatorial District race between Republican Bruce Marks and Democrat Bill Stinson.

6/23/1996 Post Gazette --

Eight members of Ridge's cabinet headlined aSenate Republican Campaign Committee fund-raiser last week that brought in $200,000. Monday's ''Caucus with the Senate Majority'' was the most successfulfund-raiser the Senate Republicans ever had, said Mike Long, staff administrator forSenate President Pro Tempore Robert Jubelirer.

9/26/2000 Daily News --

Mike Long, who runs the Senate RepublicanCampaign Committee, said "issues that a woman candidate could get traction on,abortion, guns, education, are issues Sen. Tilghman votes her way."

11/3/2000 Inquirer --

The Salvatore campaign is firing back ferociously, callingStack a sleazy campaigner and raising questions about two traffic citations Stackreceived this year that listed an address in Willow Grove. Salvatore's supporters saythe senator pursues good legislation regardless of his financial interests. "MikeStack has run a vicious, negative campaign that goes beyond the pale, even bymodern standards," said Mike Long, a senior aide to Senate Republicans inHarrisburg.

11/4/2000 Inquirer --

"I have been involved in campaigns for over 20 years,and it is the most unbelievable, most hypocritical thing I've ever seen," Mike Long,Republican state Senate majority staff administrator, said yesterday.

3/12/2001 Inquirer --

"The Senate Republican campaign is giving what supportwe can, but from Erickson's perspective, the campaign is being run by local people,"said Mike Long, an aide to the state Senate Republican leadership.

5/17/2001 Capitolwire --

Senate GOP leaders stress campaigns are run locallyand the party in Harrisburg just offers guidance, but Long now oversees just aboutevery aspect of almost every campaign for the Senate, from communications and

direct mailing to fund raising and polling. When up for re-election, some GOPsenators will still hire campaign managers, but those managers report to Long fordirection and advice.

10/18/2001 Post Gazette --

"This is about retribution because he didn't getthe Senate district he wanted," charged Long, who is the Senate Republican'sprimary campaign strategist. "The man is totally without honor. He is not truthful.He has no integrity."

1/3/2002 Post Gazette --

"It truly is a consensus map," said Mike Long, chief campaign strategist for Senate President Pro Tem Robert Jubelirer, R-Altoona.

4/23/2002 Post Gazette --

"It proves politics makes strange bedfellows,"chuckled Mike Long, campaign strategist for Senate President Pro Tem Robert Jubelirer, R-Altoona. "We appreciate his support. He put the best interests of thevoters first."

11/2/2002 Morning Call --

"Where it can impact is what the turnout is goingto be," said Mike Long, chairman of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee.

11/7/2002 Morning Call --

That was all wishful thinking on the part of Democrats, said Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Mike Long.

2/14/2003 Post Gazette --

Mike Long, an adviser to the Pippy campaign,contends that those exceptions make it clear that his candidacy can go forward…"Itdoesn't seem to be a problem," said Long, who is on leave from his post as a senioraide to the Senate Republican caucus in Harrisburg.

3/6/2003 Post Gazette --

Long, a Pippy campaign spokesman, said heexpected Pippy to prevail in court.

3/7/2003 Post Gazette --

Mike Long, a Pippy campaign spokesman, said that if Pippy wins Tuesday's election, he was "confident" that he could be sworn in andplaced on a leave of absence until his Reserve duty ended.

5/24/2003 Morning Call --

Republicans in Harrisburg said they had nothing todo with the calls. "We know nothing about it," said Mike Long, campaign strategistfor the Senate GOP and aide to Senate President Pro Tem Robert Jubelirer, R-Altoona.

11/2/2004 Associated Press --

GOP strategist Mike Long said "the trend isgood," while Kukovich spokeswoman Tess Candori called the race "neck and neck."

11/4/2004 Capitolwire --

The Senate Republicans' ...

stunning defeat of long-time incumbent Sen. Allen Kukovich (D-Westmoreland) has Capitol wags

speculating that Mike Long -- staff administrator to Senate President Pro Tem Robert Jubelirer (R-Blair) and the man who engineered that GOP victory among manyothers over the last decade -- could become the next chairman of the RepublicanState Committee when current Chairman Alan Novak steps down.

11/8/2004 Inquirer --

Mike Long, who took a leave from his job as a top aide toSenate President Pro Tempore Robert C. Jubelirer (R., Blair) to serve as a campaignstrategist for Regola, said the outcome showed Kukovich "did not mesh" with hisconstituents on any issue.

1/20/2005 Tribune Review --

"We think (Diven) would be an extremelyformidable candidate on the Republican ticket, and would win the seat, but it'sreally obviously his decision," said Mike Long, spokesman for the Senate RepublicanCampaign Committee.

4/3/2005 Patriot News --

One of my favorite rules in politics comes fromSenate GOP political guru Mike Long: "If you take the folks who are mildly foryour candidate, and give me a smaller number that are passionate for my candidateor issue, I will beat you every time. Because passionate people show up, they workand they vote. Folks who don't have a compelling reason to vote, often don't."

4/19/2005 Capitolwire --

And “because of the tax issue, she was unable to winover Republican voters, and Pat was,” said Senate Republican political strategistMike Long.

5/1/2005 Morning Call --

State Senate Republicans use words such as"genius" to describe their campaign guru Michael Long…"I just don't understandwhy someone would think that way. It seems impossible to me," says Long, thebrains behind the Senate GOP's campaign wing, and the man who some inHarrisburg have taken to referring to as a homegrown version of White Housepolitical czar Karl Rove. "I think what's in the interest of Pennsylvania is to haveRepublicans in control at all levels."…

Few people outside the clubby world of political campaigns know who Long is, much less know his name…

Almost everyRepublican Senate campaign since the mid-1980s bears his imprint in some way,and many in Harrisburg credit him for the GOP's current vise grip on the chamber.In the Lehigh Valley, Long recently had a major effect on local politics. Long helpedcraft the devastatingly effective tax advertisements that GOP Rep. Pat Browne of Allentown used against Democrat Jennifer Mann during last month's bruising fightfor the 16th state Senate District…. By day, Long is the Blair County Republican'sright-hand man, responsible for hiring and firing GOP Senate employees. Thecampaign stuff -- and there's plenty of it -- is for the weekends and days off. Jubelirer, he says, insists on it. In high season, that means Long will often work fromearly-bird hours to past midnight…. Besides scoring big with Browne last month,Long helped GOP campaign whiz Suzanne O'Berry mastermind the defeat of Sen.