More Specter Sleaze
Via reader and local activist RevDeb, a link to the Great Orange Satan:
Steve Pigeon, the former Erie County Democratic Party boss who helped mastermind Monday’s coup in the [New York] state Senate, is in line for a top Senate job if the takeover holds in the coming days.
“I expect to play a role. I’m being talked to,” Pigeon confirmed today at the Capitol [...]
Pigeon and B. Thomas Golisano, the billionaire owner of the Buffalo Sabres, were still at the Capitol today doing a victory dance — and engaged in non-stop media interviews — for their role in helping the 30 Republicans and two Democrats in Monday’s coup.
Pigeon began working with Republicans and a small contingent of Democrats in late April on a plan to wrestle control of the Senate. Golisano, who poured millions into helping Democrats take control of the Senate in last fall’s elections, gave the green light to Pigeon to work on the coup following a sour meeting between Golisano and Smith at the end of April.
isn’t that great? Pennsylvania’s one-and-only pretend Democrat has teamed up with the douchebag Democrat who helped flip the NY state senate to Republican control. As kos rightly complains in a bit of a mixed metaphor, “snakes without values or convictions end up flocking together.”
Actually, i think the proper word is “slither under rocks together”, which STILL gives a bad name to the noble snake.
Politics in Pennsie in a nutshell: the Democratic Machine…
“Our goal in 2010 is not to have a primary,” Rooney said. “Our goal is to come together as a party and, in the meantime, let the other side beat the tar out of one another.”
By laying out the Democrats’ strategy for the Pennsylvania gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races, Rooney could not have revealed a more stark contrast between the two parties.
…backed by the Democratic governor
Gov. Rendell thinks that Sestak would “get clobbered” in next year’s Democratic primary, ticking off the reasons why Sestak has “practically no chance” against Specter, who is well-known across the state and likely will have an inexhaustible supply of campaign cash.
“What in God’s name is he doing?” Rendell exclaimed.
…and our other (real) Democratic Senator…
Casey: I hope we don’t have a primary. I’m urging anyone who might be considering or who may have already made a decision about that to try to come together and unify.
…are trying to deny Pennsylvania Democrats a real election and a real choice, opting instead to ram a Republican who has neither values nor convictions (other than his own self-preservation) down our throats, with the help of a person so disloyal and so feckless that he’d help oust his own party from power in New York? That about sum it up for you?
The event also features Bob “let’s repeal habeas corpus oh and also let’s make sure the middle class is permanently in debt Menendez and Bob “war criminal who murdered women and children” and “i’m resigning because I’m hated Kerrey.
is this the kind of Democrat pennsylvanians want? A guy who pals around with benedict Arnolds like Pigeon, who threw his own party under the bus “because his boss, billionaire Tom Golisano, didn’t want to have his taxes raised..
Try selling that to the 63% of PA Democrats who want a primary (warning, PDF).
This “race” gets sleazier and sleazier. Despite my objections to Sestak’s FISA vote, I am rooting for the Admiral to jump in. Maybe it’s time to draft the guy.
Lord know the ads write themselves:
Run, Joe! RUN!
