The LuLac Edition #456, April 9th, 2008

PHOTO INDEX: SENATORS CLINTON AND OBAMA AND BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, THE SAD ELEPHANT.

YO, COME BACK HERE!!!

Want to make a sad GOP mascot happy again? Come back home after your dalliance with the Democratic Party. The Pennsylvania Republican party has a message to GOP voters whochanged their party registration in recent months so they can vote in the Democratic presidential primary on April 22.
The party plans a drive to welcome those voters back to the fold as soon as they have cast a ballot for Sens. Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, said Robert Gleason, the state GOP party chairman.
The campaign will start at polling places on election day. Party
volunteers will hand out voter registration cards so voters can switch their registration back to the GOP. The party will send mailers to remind these voters why they were Republicans in the first place, Mr. Gleason said at a Capitol press conference.

OBAMA ON CANDY!

God, we all love those Peppermint Patties and Senator Obama has taken up the cause of the workers who make them in the Keystone State. “Every four years, politicians come to Pennsylvania promising to protect American jobs. And every four years they go back to Washington and nothing changes – because the special interests and lobbyists keep blocking change. I’m running for President because working families can’t afford to wait another four years while the same old Washington players play the same old Washington game, while factories like the York Peppermint Patty plant in Reading move to Mexico in search of cheap labor. It’s time to end business-as-usual in Washington so we can bring about real change for the American people.”

Not to mention to keep those yummy mint treats closer to home.

CLINTON ON THE OLYMPICS

Senator Hillary Clinton said President Bush should stay home during this summer's Olympics to make a political statement. "The violent clashes in Tibet and the failure of the Chinese government to use its full leverage with Sudan to stop the genocide in Darfur are opportunities for Presidential leadership. These events underscore why I believe the Bush administration has been wrong to downplay human rights in its policy towards China. At this time, and in light of recent events, I believe President Bush should not plan on attending the opening ceremonies in Beijing, absent major changes by the Chinese government.
I encourage the Chinese to take advantage of this moment as an opportunity to live up to universal human aspirations of respect for human rights and unity, ideals that the Olympic games have come to represent.
Americans will stand strong in support of freedom of religious and political expression and human rights. Americans will also stand strong and root for the success of American athletes who have worked hard and earned the right to compete in the Olympic Games of 2008."

HOFFA IN TOWN

James Hoffa, Junior was in town to talk about the candidacy of Barak Obama and he was asked about the reports that the late Russell Bufalino ordered the hit on his late father, James Senior. He answered the questions patiently but that was not his main mission. According to reports, the fact the Teamsters are backing Obama is good news to the now surging candidacy of the Illinois Senator.