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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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Colin Hanna, Liar.

I get that politics is rough and tumble and the both sides stretch the truth; I don’t love it as an old-school trained journalist, but with a decade of covering politics and nearly another decade as a participant, I kind of have a sense that you can stretch the truth in politics and people get that and factor it into their digestion of news and reporting.

But there are times when something gets so badly stretched that the truth is utterly snapped and someone needs to point it out. This time it comes from Chester County’s own Colin Hanna.

You might remember Hanna as a short-tempered, personality-challenged former county commissioner or may know him from his “Swift-Boat-Lite” PAC, LetFreedomRingUSA (and how someone showed up in both an LFRUSA commercial — the guy who says he won’t hire anybody if Obama is elected — and a McCain commercial makes one wonder about blatant violations of — wait for it — McCain-Feingold, but I digress).

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