Former Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania Joe Hoeffel at the Barack Obama Campaign Rally speaks before Hillary Clinton takes the stage and says that Sarah Palin is not running for Commander of Cute. And if she winks at him one more through the TV he is going to get sick!

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Joe Hoeffel Bio from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hoeffel

Joseph M. "Joe" Hoeffel III (pronounced "Huffle") (born September 3, 1950) is a Democratic U.S. politician from the state of Pennsylvania. He served three terms in Congress representing the Montgomery County-based 13th congressional district, and is currently vice-chair for the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners.

Hoeffel was born in Philadelphia[1]. He attended Boston University and received his Juris Doctor degree from Temple University. He has been married for 26 years to Francesca Hoeffel. They live in Abington Township, a suburb of Philadelphia, and have two children.

Hoeffel served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1977 through 1985, and was the first Democrat to represent the Abington area since World War I.[3]

He gave up his seat in a bid for the 13th Congressional District in 1984, and was defeated by longterm incumbent Lawrence Coughlin. Hoeffel sought a rematch in 1986, and was defeated again. After several years out of politics, Hoeffel won a seat on the Montgomery County Commission in 1991. In a surprise to the political establishment, Hoeffel supported Republican Mario Mele for Commission chairman over Jon D. Fox.[4]

[edit] Career in Congress

In 1996, Hoeffel made a third run at Congress taking on his former colleague on the Montgomery County Commission, Jon D. Fox, now a freshman Congressman. That year, Fox hung onto his seat by an 84-vote margin. [5] However, in 1998, in his fourth attempt, Hoeffel broke through. Hobbled by a tough Republican primary and the fallout from the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, Fox could not hang on a second time. Hoeffel won by more than 5,000 votes.[6] Hoeffel became only the second Democrat to represent the Montgomery County-based district in 86 years.

He won re-election twice, though not without difficulty. In 2000 he won an expensive race against Republican State Senator Stewart Greenleaf, becoming the first Democrat to serve more than one term in the district in decades. In 2002, he defeated wealthy ophthalmologist Melissa Brown by less than expected; the 13th had been made somewhat more Democratic with the addition of part of Philadelphia.