Read the Post-Gazette story here:
NEW CASTLE — As he pulled into the Lawrence County seat on a recent campaign, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter recalled his first visit, some 40 years ago, to the town variously known as the Hot Dog Capital of America or the Fireworks Capital of the World.
“I was DA and I was interested in running for governor at the time. And the guy who picked me up at the airport was Frank Vitril.
“Frank was a Republican commissioner. He later became a Democratic commissioner,” Mr. Specter noted, without any apparent allusion to his own, similar political conversion.
The ostensible point of the story was what a colorful guy Mr. Vitril was, with his collection of antique cars and his foul, funny stories. But the underlying message was how deeply Mr. Specter is steeped in the grass roots of the state he has represented for a record five terms, and the dividends of those years of experience, for him, and, he would argue, for his constituents.
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