Can I just say right now how effing boring the race for the next PA Governor is shaping up to be? Seriously. It hasn't even started and I already am bored. It's the same old same old: craggy looking white guys bellying up to the center, available in only two flavors: a) Former/Current/Wannabe CEO or b) Tough on Crime. There looks to be nothing enjoyable or interesting about it, especially when you factor in the coming head-in-hands frustration of the choice organizations, and even worse, a possible rise in hate crimes directed at Pennsylvania's Latino communities as the Republican party tries to pick off NE votes with hatin' on the immigrints. GROSS!!!
Dr. Cornell West said it best: with all the talent we have in this country - why are these the people who run for office?
The only possibly entertaining candidate, Don Cunningham - who could have performed at his own events with his rock band, 'Don Cunningham and His Cabinet' - is staying put in the Lehigh Valley.
Anyways. I am not seeking a solution here, I just had to get that one off my chest.
To leave you with something funny at least, I will share a story from elections (and newspaper owners) past.
This is from a former Inquirer editor, talking about working for the shady character Walter Annenberg before the paper was bought by Knight:
"Annenberg shamelessly used his news columns to embarrass candidates who dared to run against his favorites. One day in 1966 a Democrat named Milton Shapp held a press conference while running for governor and Annenberg’s hand-picked political reporter asked him only one question.
"The question was, “Mr. Shapp, have you ever been admitted to a mental institution?”
“Why no,” Shapp responded, and went away scratching his head about this odd question.
"The next morning he didn’t need to scratch his head any more. A five-column front page Inquirer headline read, “Shapp Denies Mental Institution Stay.”"
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