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Ding-dong?
Submitted by Ray Murphy on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 11:19am.
I will leave it to Dan to pound the nails into the coffin, but the front page of today's papers and this quote are pretty amazing:
Perzel, the former House speaker, was charged yesterday with 82 counts of theft, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and conflict of interest. The grand jury said he and others had misused public money for campaign purposes and then tried to cover it up.
As is always the case
It's the obstruction thats going to get him worse than the misuse of public funds.
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.
It was rather stunning
to see the former Speaker handcuffed on the homepage of philly.com.
I still have my fingers crossed
for connections between the software contractors and folks working for the PPA.
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.
I doubt we'll hear anything about that
Corbett caught his big Republican fish - no need to expand the parameters. This helps him not only with swing voters but also with the conservative base, which despises Perzel almost as much as we do.
So, for the midterm election, the R's will run one of their biggest base heroes, along with the so-called crusader who goes after corruption in both parties. Meanwhile, the most likely scenario has the D's leading their ticket with a guy who's been in the party for five minutes, and nominating a pro-life gubernatorial candidate right on the heels of Stupak-Pitts.
Statewide, 2010 is going to be ugly, ugly, ugly.
Perzel and PA 2010
While I agree that 2010 poses challenges for PA Dems, I have to disagree with Looking Italian on the idea that we are set to nominate a Bart Stupak democrat for governor. If you are referring to Onorato, you are most certainly wrong. In fact, not long after the "opt out" public option became part of the Senate bill, Onorato emailed his supporters to say that he would absolutely veto any bill that opted PA out of the public option. Folks in the Philly part of the state have been a little too eager to paint him as a conservative democrat in the mold of Ben Nelson. Being conservative on abortion and gay rights is absolutely not the same thing as not making them a central theme in your campaign. Dan is more of the latter, I think. And that's a good thing. We need to be talking about jobs, education, health care, transportaion, and opportunity. NOT guns, God, and gays (althought we need to be able to talk about those things at the right time). It is my great hope that when the GOP yammers on about "spending", tax cuts, and defecits that we will not answer with something about abortion.
Corbett is going to run a very conventional GOP gubernatorial campaign. Onorato can win if he's willing to take some risks and be creative while attaching his campaign to national democratic themes. No question, if we run the standard Democratic Party campaign for offices next year we get crushed. We also need a Lt. Gov. nominee who is at least somewhat compelling.