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‘Go Huskies! Love Dave McCormick’ banner to be flown above Temple-UConn game

By Sean Kitchen

October 5, 2024

Dave McCormick got upset after Bob Casey called out his Connecticut residency. Now Democrats will fly a banner plane ahead of Temple’s football game on Saturday.

Democrats are using the upcoming football game between Temple University and the University of Connecticut on Saturday to poke fun at Dave McCormick’s out-of-state residency. 

Less than two days after the US Senate debate between McCormick and US Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.), a plane with a banner carrying the message “Go Huskies! Love Dave McCormick” is scheduled to fly around Center City Philadelphia, starting at 10 AM and will stay in the air through prime tailgating hours. 

McCormick, a former Connecticut-based hedge fund manager running against Casey in the upcoming election, got defensive during Thursday’s debate when Casey repeatedly called out his Connecticut residency and then lashed out at the Associated Press.

“Senator Casey is once again lying,” McCormick said. “So the fact that he got some reporter at the Associated Press to validate his lies or reinforce his lies does not mean it’s true.”

The Associated Press reported last year that McCormick lived in a $16 million mansion on Connecticut’s Gold Coast, which is one of the densest concentrations of wealth in the country. 

“The biggest lie told in this whole election that probably most Pennsylvanians have never heard a bigger lie, was the lie when my opponent said he lived in Pennsylvania when he was living in Connecticut,” Casey said during the debate.

McCormick’s Westport mansion features a 1,500-bottle wine cellar, an elevator and private waterfront resort on the Long Island Sound. 

Voting records from the Pennsylvania Department of State show that  McCormick didn’t vote in Allegheny County for 15 years until he moved back to the state to run for US Senate in 2022. 

Lastly, flight records obtained by Vanity Fair show that McCormick continued to fly between Connecticut and Pennsylvania on a private airplane while getting ready to launch his current campaign for the Senate.  



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  • Sean Kitchen

    Sean Kitchen is the Keystone’s political correspondent, based in Harrisburg. Sean is originally from Philadelphia and spent five years working as a writer and researcher for Pennsylvania Spotlight.

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