Archive for October, 2009

President Barack Obama. Val DiGiorgio says the budget deficit and the bad economy is all his fault, as if Bush was never president.

It was a pleasant enough night at Tel Hei, up in Honey Brook. The audience was reasonably receptive in what was to be the final forum for county-wide candidates.

It was, though, at times a bit like falling through Alice’s looking glass. First, only Val DiGiorgio and Mimi Sack showed up for the GOP, while all five Democrats attended. Sack, of whom virtually no one has anything unpleasant to say was her usual polite, civil self.

DiGiorgio — clearly rattled by mailers sent out by his opponent, Jim Reilly, went on the attack, trying to defend the both his lack of fiscal training and experience as well as the county’s giant debt load. That was to be expected. But then DiGiorgio dropped this bombshell:

All of our current economic problems have been caused by President Obama and the Democrats. When he said that, I really began wondering whether it was Val who took a shot to the head Monday night instead of Brian Westbrook. Read the rest of this entry »

One week to go.

You may not know that Election Day is one week away and it is understandable. It’s not like there’s been a lot of coverage in the media; more on that later. But these are tough times and frankly, an election might be the last thing crossing people’s minds right now.

Recently, I saw a government estimate that roughly 21 percent of working age people are either unemployed or working just part time while wanting a full-time job. That’s one in five people in our country. And with Pennsylvania lagging the rest of the country in terms of economic recovery, that number could be worse here. Read the rest of this entry »

I guess you could call it a fundamental lack of respect. Not for me, mind you, but for the voters of Chester County.

I was delighted to spend a half hour on the air with Mike Pincus of WCHE the other day — as will be the case with my running mates Kipp Stone and Jim Reilly over the next couple of Wednesdays. The Republicans? Suddenly, they have scheduling conflicts.

Scheduling conflicts? Why not claim that they had to wash their hair? I mean, come on. While there’s been some suggestion that the Chester County GOP is mad because some at WCHE have been critical of Chester County’s own would-be Lt. Governor, Carol Aichele. I’m skeptical myself.

I think it has a lot more to do with the same reason my opponent doesn’t have his own Web site: the GOP apparently thinks the less you know about him — or any of their candidates — the more likely you’ll be to vote for them. That’s along the same lines as the sudden disappearance of the Chester County ACTION Website — only for it to be replaced by a sanitized, less scary version (thanks to Wayback Machine, however, the original scary content is saved for all to see ).
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