The LuLac Edition #61, Sept. 15th, 2006

THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES RARELY REMEMBERED

As I watched the very articulate Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate opine on all things political on PCN the other night, I thought about Third Party candidates of the past. The Green Party candidate told a group of assembled supporters at the Rotunda of the Capitol in Harrisburg how it was his dream since grade school to be a candidate for the U.S. Senate. It was curious to me that the Green Party candidate slammed Robert Casey for not joining the debate fray and seemed to keep the gloves off of Senator Rick Santorum. (Oh well, I guess you don't want to bite the hand that feeds you!) Anyway, in his hour long speech, the Third party candidate railed against Casey for not wanting to debate. If that's all he has against Casey, then the Green Party candidate will be remembered just as well as Mark Clark and John Anderson. Those guys ran as Third Party candidates for President in 1980 and if you ask anyone on the street if they remember them today, nobody does. And that will most likely be the fate of the Green Party candidate for Senate in a few years.

RENDELL SPOT TOUTS PITTSBURGH.........People are still up in arms about that Ed Rendell spot running on Cable TV that touts the city of Pittstburgh as "Ed's kind of town". I think Rendell did the commericial to blunt criticism that he was the Governor of Philadelpia. And besides anytime I ever met Rendell he always hyped Harrisburg as the place to be. Read the inscription on the photo, "See you in Harrisburg!" Now that's what I call promoting where you live.

PITTSBURGH MAYOR ON LETTERMAN....Luke Ravenstahl, the new Mayor of Pittsburgh appeared on the David Letterman show Thursday night. Did well and held his own with Dave.

SWANN'S NEWEST COMMERCIALS...........Lynn Swann has a great new TV commercial running. He is finally running an issue oriented commercial talking about welfare reform. The problem is the Welfare to work program might have been an issue 10 years ago but doesn't seem to resonate with voters in 2006. Still, the ad presented Swann very well.

POLITICAL SHOPPING......Want to wear your support of your favorite candidate on your sleeve, or your back or your head? Here are some links to political stores.

RENDELL:
http://www.demstore.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/scstore/Rendell/?E+scstore+done


SWANN:
https://www.donationreport.com/init/controller/ProcessEntryCmd?key=O5Z3O2U0F6


SANTORUM:
https://www.donationreport.com/init/controller/ProcessEntryCmd?key=S2E3X6O9S9


CASEY:
http://www.bobcaseystore.com/


HAPPY SHOPPING