Back from my expedition to find some of that Local 98 literature touting the team of Rendell and Santorum. It's true. I found some guys at 4th and Washington, in front of a high rise apartment building that I suppose was serving as a polling place, and walked up and asked them for a piece of their lit. They happily obliged. Someone else that I ran into remarked that she asked them why Santorum and Rendell were campaigning together and the guys just shrugged and indicated that they're just handing out what they were told to hand out.
Anyway, here's what the piece looks like:
If you look really close, in the lower left corner you see this:
Like I said before, politics makes strange bedfellows.
From there Jeff and I walked to the Famous 4th Street Delicatessen where I tried to explain the tradition of it being the site where all of the city Democratic politicos go for lunch on Election Day. As I was explaining how it all began, lo and behold, one of the founders of the tradition, Neil Oxman, walked up and explained how he, David Glancy (Democratic City Committee chair), Pete Camiel (former chair) and Doc Sweitzer (Neil's business partner at the Campaign Group) just started having lunch their back in the late 70s. From that point on the tradition grew until it became a "must-do" on any politician's list.
I snapped a few pictures and quickly discovered that photography is not in my skill set (along with grammar and punctuation). Here's a shot of Congressman Brady after he was handed a Bob Casey button:
And the back of Vince Fumo as he ran by the gathered media so that he could get to his corned beef on rye:
Maybe that was the jacket he was wearing when he met billionaire Campbell's Soup heiress Dodo Hamilton.
I was waiting for the Governor himself to show up and thought I was on the right track when his longtime advisor and the man who many consider to be the "man behind the curtain" of Rendell's Wizard of Philadelphia arrived:
That's Comcast VP David L. Cohen in the middle, with political media consultant Neil Oxman on the left and another longtime member of Rendell's inner circle, Arthur Makadon on the right.
Oh yeah, the governor didn't show. Very disappointing.
As always, your input is welcome. If you have any interesting pics, feel free to email them to me and I get them up.
Comments (3)
Only in the US of A would someone brag about not having the basic grammatical and spelling skills that a/he was supposed to learn by, like, you know, age 16...while writing online in the expectation that others will read, and trust, their words and facts.
For the love of snot, grow up.
Set an example for young people by being proud not of being illiterate (huh HUH huh huh huh, Butthead) (huh HUH huh huh huh, Beavis), but of having precision of thought and expression.
Jokes about one's own incompetence of expression are cheap--and basically spit in the face of one's readers.
May the voters of expatriate Auntie's dearly missed DelVal eject Santorum from Senate as fast as Frank Rizzo trying to escape a refinery fire whereat he appeared avec entourage to score PR points.
A trebuchet for Curt Weldon would also make Auntie very happy. I mean for him literally; used on him; applied to his doughy posterior.
Don't give him one. Don't let him anywhere near the forces of physics.
Posted by Auntie | November 7, 2006 3:50 PM
Mom?
ouch. so noted.
Posted by Dan | November 7, 2006 5:41 PM
No. It wasn't me. Sounds like an Oxman comment to me!
MOM
Posted by Susan | November 8, 2006 12:32 PM