Congressman Jason Altmire has released a partial list of endorsements -- heavy on Democratic officials from Beaver and Lawrence counties -- in advance of his primary fight with Johnstown's Mark Critz.

It includes the party chairs of both counties. State Rep. Adam Ravenstahl of the North Side is an endorser, but his brother Luke is not among the 28 local mayors listed (UPDATE: Because the Pgh mayor isn't in the district).

The release and names are in full after the jump:

1 p.m. - At the Poinsett Club here, a predominantly white private club, Texas Gov. Rick Perry continued his return to South Carolina, looking past tomorrow's northeastern primary and on to the southern conservatives.

While he was the luncheon speaker at the club's First Monday gathering, the presence of other presidential contenders could be seen: representatives for Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney all stood up to give brief pitches prior to Perry's speech.

(Romney's aide was seated at the same table as former state House Speaker and former U.S. ambassador David Wilkins, a Perry backer. And the Santorum rep stood for his seat, two chairs over from Perry.)

Gingrich's state director, Adam Waldeck, urged the business leaders present to consider who can take on President Barack Obama and who has a track record of "large-scale change."

Perry's state chair, Katon Dawson, stuck to an argument on economics and principles, saying the country needs "a conservative revolution and he needs to be the leader of it."

As for Perry himself, he transitioned from a quick review of his childhood growing up in small, rural Paint Creek, Texas ("In town, there was a Methodist church or a Baptist church -- your choice.") to his call for a balanced federal budget, part-time Congress and less regulation.

"Americans don’t want government playing a bigger role in their lives," Perry said. "Our cure is to have an outsider go to Washington, D.C."

The response from the prim-and-proper crowd was tepid, with the main applause line coming to his section on defending the states against federal intrustion. If you wanted someone to tell you that you have to buy insurance, "you’re free to move to Massachusetts."

That Romney slam came after a harsh critique this morning in Anderson, S.C., where he attacked former Bain Capital executive for his comment about being fearful of receiving a pink slip earlier in his career. Perry contrasted that comment against what he said were thousands of workers in South Carolina and elsewhere that were laid off when the private equity firm came in to assist failing businesses.

"I have no doubt that Mitt Romney worried about pink slips – whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out ... with all of the jobs that they’ve killed," Perry said. "I’m sure he was worried that he would to run out of pink slips."

From Suffolk U:

Graphic: Rick Santorum quotes as New Yorker captions, from Buzzfeed.

As usual, it's difficult keeping up with everything Santorum these days, but here's a start this groggy Monday:

The bloom is off the rose polling-wise, argues the NYT's Nate Silver, even if he got the biggest bounce of anybody out of Iowa.

That's one of the reasons he's working hard in South Carolina. The P-G's Laura Olson is there, as is Politico and the LA Times. SNL is taking notice -- Andy Samberg did Santorum to start off the show, though it wasn't all that funny. (PoliticsPa)

Ron Paul is going after him too. (Time)

Some Pittsburgh Republicans are still mad at Santorum for supporting a stadium tax plan back in the 90s -- for that matter, he also supported the North Shore connector project, aka the tunnel to nowhere that Republican Tom Corbett blasted in the 2010 governor's race.

According to the Capitol Words generator by the Sunlight Foundation, from January 1996 through January 2007 said the following words more than anyone else in the U.S. Senate: abortion, partial-birth, fetus, fetal and womb.

Santorum was a prolific earmark user in the Senate, too, and that's a no-no for the budget hawks at Club For Growth.