The LuLac Edition #1200, June 4th, 2010

PHOTO INDEX: STATE REPRESENTATIVE CHAMBER AND OUR 1966 LOGO.

STEPPING BACK

Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak didn’t share a stage when President Obama visited Pittsburgh on Wednesday, just a week after the White House acknowledged it used former President Bill Clinton to offer Sestak a role as an administration advisory board<>a two-page report saying nothing unethical or illegal occurred. Sestak “has a previous commitment to receive the endorsement of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, and as the co-host for Philadelphia FIGHT’s AIDS Education Month, the congressman will be presenting awards at the opening and regrets that he will be unable to attend the event in Pittsburgh,” said Joe Langdon, a Sestak spokesman. Specter, planned to join Obama at the event. Other members of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation also were staying away, including Democratic Rep. Mark Critz, who l won a special election that Republicans had hoped to capture. Instead, he will attended a Johnstown business event. “For a party that is so seemingly proud of enacting their big-government agenda, congressional Democrats are conspicuously absent from the campaign trail,” said Paul Lindsay, a spokesman for the House Republicans’ campaigns. “If this is their way of listening to voters, November could be even more difficult than they bargained for.”
Combined AP Reports.

AND NOW COLORADO

MSNBC reports that President Barack Obama was unaware a top aide encouraged a Colorado Democrat to apply for an international development job instead of challenging the candidate whom the president favored in a Senate race, the White House said Thursday. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs faced fresh questions about another backroom political deal — the first involving a Pennsylvania candidate, now a Colorado hopeful — that put the Obama administration on the defensive. The White House acknowledged that it had contacted former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff about possible jobs in hopes of persuading him to skip the Senate primary.

Asked whether Obama was knew about the outreach, Gibbs told reporters: "He's not aware of the individual circumstances." I’m reading the book “Game Change” and seeing how savvy the Obama campaign was in defeating Hillary Clinton and John McCain. They were smooth. I’m wondering where all this mojo went.

BUDGET ON TIME?

The State House wants to get a budget done on time this year. Gov. Ed Rendell and lawmakers agreed yesterday that there was a willingness to compromise on issues in order to finish next year's budget by the June 30 deadline. Rendell is once more going to be pushing for more money on Education but the Governor should re think any idea he has about once more fooling around with Library Funding. Kids who don’t have the resources to use computers at home go to the public library. School district Libraries shut down at 3:00PM because God Forbid if we ask a publicly paid union school teacher to work extra time. The Governor should restore Library funding to the Ridge levels.

JIMMY AND STEVE

Jimmy (I go your way, you go your way) Igoe and Steve Corbett from WILK are in the running to be Democratic committee men in their ward in Scranton. May the best man win.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

1966

The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961)........

Éamon de Valera is re-elected as Irish president...Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.....Four former cabinet ministers are executed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for alleged involvement in a plot to kill Mobutu Sese Seko.....In Pennsylvania the State GOP picks Raymond Broderick to run at Lt. Governor in the place of the deceased Walter Allesendroni who was killed in a plane crash before the GOP primary……Peg Schmidt, the wife of ex Mayor Bill Schmidt assumes a position with the GOP State Committee…..and WEJL AM Radio wins a Outstanding Broadcasting Award at the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters meeting in Harrisburg……in Wilkes Barre Talk Radio is just getting traction on WBAX 1240AM Radio with Jim Ward’s “Morning Mayor” program from 10AM to noon and Jones Evans’ Night time “Speak Up” Program from 10PM to 1AM. The studios of WBAX were located on the corner of Franklin Union…..and 44 years ago today the number 1 song in LuLac land And America was “Cool Jerk” by the Capitols.