This week’s edition of Pennsylvania’s Only State Government Podcast (TM) finds us ping-ponging from Philadelphia to Johnstown and back to Harrisburg as we race to cover all the campaign news in a busy primary season.
On today’s edition, you can hear us take on Tom Corbett’s adventures among the Tea Partiers. The Republican AG traveled to Beaver County over the weekend to shore up support on his right flank and tamp down conservative resistance to his candidacy.
In Johnstown, Mark Critz, a former aide to the late John Murtha, appears to be the odds-on favorite to be the Democratic nominee in the May 18 special election for his boss’s 12th CD seat. But you can never tell about these things.
All six gubernatorial candidates met in Philly for a forum last week. But polls show that voters just aren’t that into them. What will it take for one of the Six Dwarves to break from the pack?
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Once again, the guy nobody knows shows up at the eleventh hour to shove a qualified, vetted professional woman aside and sweep into favor with the men of the Democratic Party. What part of Gender Equity Rules, 52% of the Population and 51% of the Workforce, not to mention the True Base and Majority of the Democratic Party do the County Chairs not comprehend? Have they failed to study the results of the last few Primaries and General Elections in their jurisdiction to see who wins? Are they so dim that they see neither the Light nor the Law of Large Numbers? I thought we were Democrats, yet the Party Leadership stubbornly boots every opportunity to endemnify the Women of the Party, choosing instead, to cheat us out of representation that reflects True Majority with “insider” political crap. Women have a right to respectful consideration, honorable support and responsible endorsement from our male colleagues in the Party. The endorsement of Critz was an obvious demonstration of contempt for Female Leadership. County Chairs, Chairman Rooney and the Committee members of the 12th District; I mean you no disrespect, but, this action is an insult to your female colleagues. Hafer is an accomplished, proven vote-getter and the lesson learned here is this: Women elected to positions of leadership in the Democratic Party must assert Gender Equity Provisions and exercise our right to assure equal representation in behalf of the women we represent.