{"id":11863,"date":"2012-10-15T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=11863"},"modified":"2012-10-04T14:42:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T18:42:31","slug":"wcu-schedules-bout-with-political-heavyweights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=11863","title":{"rendered":"WCU schedules bout with political heavyweights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alan Novak, former GOP party chair in Chester County, will serve as half of West Chester University’s “Political Odd Couple.”\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

Rival state party titans to face off in pre-debate Oct. 22<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Can West Chester University’s Sykes Ballroom contain two diametrically opposed political power-brokers?<\/p>\n

That’s a question university official believe will be answered affirmatively on Oct. 22. That’s the scheduled date for a bipartisan election event that will pit \u00a0two rival Pennsylvania party titans against each other in a public pre-debate that should appeal to both political junkies and neophytes.<\/p>\n

Entitled \u201cThe Political Odd Couple: Left Right and Everywhere In-Between,\u201d the free event is designed to offer spirited insight into state and national politics.\u00a0On one side of the aisle, \u00a0Alan Novak, the\u00a0the longest-serving chairman of Pennsylvania\u2019s Republican Party (1996-2005), will provide his views. Novak, a longtime attorney, has regularly been recognized as one of the 50 most politically powerful Pennsylvanians.<\/p>\n

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T.J. Rooney, a longtime state Democratic lawmaker and party operative, will be the second half of WCU’s “Political Odd Couple.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Espousing a different take on the political landscape will be \u00a0T.J. Rooney, a seven-term member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Rooney\u2019s influence has led to frequent national TV commentary as well as leadership posts in the state Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

The exchange between the two will be followed by the screening of the presidential debate.<\/p>\n

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Rival state party titans to face off in pre-debate Oct. 22 Can West Chester University’s Sykes Ballroom contain two diametrically opposed political power-brokers? That’s a question university official believe will be answered affirmatively on Oct. 22. That’s the scheduled date for a bipartisan election event that will pit \u00a0two rival Pennsylvania party titans against each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,924],"tags":[2025,2028,2027,2026,1545],"class_list":["post-11863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-community","category-events","tag-alan-novak","tag-pennsylvania-democratic-party","tag-pennsylvania-republican-party","tag-t-j-rooney","tag-west-chester-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}