Reply #16: If his brother is running for lt. governor in Pennsylvania as a

[Skidmore]

Republican, is he perhaps selling himself to insure that his brother can get dollars and support from the RNC? He might be campaigning. Just a thought.

http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16101897&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6

Matthews to be endorsed by state GOP
Margaret Gibbons, Special to The Mercury02/10/2006
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NORRISTOWN -- The suspense is over.


Montgomery County Commissioner James R. Matthews will be the endorsed Republican candidate for lieutenant governor even though the official endorsement vote by state GOP committee members will not come until Saturday at their meeting in Harrisburg....

"I come from a large Irish family with roots in Philadelphia and first cousins in each of the surrounding counties," said Matthews, whose younger brother is Chris Matthews of MSNBC’s "Hardball."