The GOP state Senate primary is rivaling the between Jason Altmire and Mark Critz as the toughest primary in the state, let along the Pittsburgh region.

Following up on at his Scott tech firm, the Mustio camp has released the mail piece above going over the same territory. There is nothing wrong with the attack facts, but it's interesting for directly tracking the d in the county executive race last fall, down to the sourcing from the same 2005 magazine story. One gets the impression from the Raja camp that they don't like the tone of either attack, which

The Raja camp has gone negative too -- just as it did . PoliticsPa tracked down an ad below knocking Mustio and for collecting the per-diems allotted to lawmakers. Again, that's old ground but odd to hear in a race between two Republicans. (GOP activist Sue Means is also in the race.)

With the three week presidential primary run toward the April 24 Pennsylvania primary starting today (with both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum holding events across the state), the Obama camp's press secretary and its Pa director are out with a campaign memo previewing its attacks on Romney, the GOP nominee.

It says in part:

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Romney has a speech in DC today before heading to the Philly burbs tonight and Harrisburg tomorrow. Santorum has events today in Carnegie, Altoona and Mechanicsburg. (PoliticsPa has .)

The in Pa has Obama beating Romney and Santorum by 3 to 7 points respectively.

The full Pennsylvania memo from the Obama camp is after the jump:

With his sentencing weeks away, Rep. Bill DeWeese took to the House floor today to bid farewell to the chamber where he has served for more than three decades.

DeWeese, a Democratic former speaker of the House, has continued to represent Greene County after his convictions in February on five felony corruption charges, but the law prevents him from continuing after he is sentenced on April 24. The House meets this week for the last time before that day, also the date of primary elections this year.

Standing on the chamber floor, DeWeese waxed as eloquent as ever, citing Samuel Johnson, Jack Benny and Augustine and drawing laughter from both sides of the aisle.

He referred only glancingly to the circumstances that will force his departure from the House.

"We are all, I think, endeavoring to do our best," he said. "Mistakes are made, and that's where this humility comes in. Now I'm not as humble as I want to be, but I'm a lot more humble than I used to be."

Having promised at the outset to speak of gratitude and humility, he continued, "That's pretty much that part of the speech," prompting laughter and applause from the lawmakers.

Even though he may lose in all three of today's primaries -- from establishment Mitt Romney forces that he drop from the presidential race --  Rick Santorum has seemed anything but stressed lately. Instead he's been treating Wisconsin like spring break, :

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, who'll be, may need the sauce now that has shown his lead slipping in his native Pennsylvania. Between the lines, his celebration of beer and wine drinking also says:

Going into Holy Week -- where we expect campaigning to idle a bit by the end of the week -- he's also differentiating himself from his GOP rival's massive wealth and questioning whether there's some funny business regarding his blind trusts.

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Yesterday the Santorum camp released tying Romney to Obama, but the WashPost dismisses it with four Pinnochios.The ad "takes only 30 seconds to throw just about everything, including the kitchen sink, at his chief rival,"

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