{"id":5107,"date":"2012-10-15T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2012-10-04T20:58:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T00:58:33","slug":"wcu-schedules-bout-with-political-heavyweights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=5107","title":{"rendered":"WCU schedules bout with political heavyweights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Rival state party titans to face off in pre-debate Oct. 22<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5110\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?attachment_id=5110\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5110\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5110\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5110 \" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 4px;\" title=\"alan-novak-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/alan-novak-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Novak, former GOP party chair in Chester County, will serve as half of West Chester University&#8217;s &#8220;Political Odd Couple.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Can West Chester University&#8217;s Sykes Ballroom contain two diametrically opposed political power-brokers?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a question university official believe will be answered affirmatively on Oct. 22. That&#8217;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<p>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<div id=\"attachment_5108\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?attachment_id=5108\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5108\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5108\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5108 \" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 4px;\" title=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">T.J. Rooney, a longtime state Democratic lawmaker and party operative, will be the second half of WCU&#8217;s &#8220;Political Odd Couple.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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<p>The exchange between the two will be followed by the screening of the presidential debate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rival state party titans to face off in pre-debate Oct. 22 Can West Chester University&#8217;s Sykes Ballroom contain two diametrically opposed political power-brokers? That&#8217;s a question university official believe will be answered affirmatively on Oct. 22. That&#8217;s the scheduled date for a bipartisan election event that will pit \u00a0two rival Pennsylvania party titans against each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,450],"tags":[1222,1223,1224],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-community","category-events-2","tag-alan-novak","tag-t-j-rooney","tag-west-chester-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}