We Interrupt You’re Normally Scheduled Blog Post . . .
This is the third segment of a ten part series about why you, and the netroots community as a whole, should be focused on the Eighth Congressional District of Pennsylvania. There has been a lot of discussion around the net about what makes a good “netroots” candidate – this is my case for Patrick Murphy in PA-08. If you haven’t already, please check out the first two installments:
A Democratic District in Republican Hands
The Real, Right Wing Mike Fitzpatrtick
More on the Flip…
Part 3: Republican Dirty Tricks in PA-08 Democratic Primary
As regular readers of this series know, this entry in the ten part series was supposed to document Mike Fitzpatrick’s numerous flip-flops in his first year in office. Unfortunately, the focus of the series needs to shift – just for a bit – to focus on the other Republican in the race Andy Warren.
Right now you may be scratching your head and saying – HUH? Well yes, another reason why YOU need to care about PA-08 is that the true progressive candidate – Patrick Murphy – has to take on TWO Republicans in order to win in November.
Murphy’s primary opponent is Andy Warren: a lifelong Republican who suddenly had a change of heart and became a Democrat when the local Republican bosses passed him over for a Congressional Seat and a Commissioners job. This is isn’t speculation or insinuation. This is a fact. Warren, in fact, even admitted that if he ran for office on the local level he would still be a Republican.
And I guess it appears as if a lifetime of Republican dirty tricks dies hard. Over the past few weeks, the Warren campaign has been shamelessly and desperately attacking Patrick Murphy, most notably for not spending enough time in the district. In case you were wondering where Patrick was Mr. Warren – he was serving our Country in IRAQ!
Warren – a life-long member of the Republican machine, who switched parties merely to have the chance to run for public office – also had the GALL to call Murphy opportunistic. Warren was resoundingly slapped down for these comments, by: AboveAverageJane, the Liberal Doomsayer, The Bucks County Courier Times, and most importantly the voters of Bucks County.
Here is the last straw. It appears that Andy Warren has enlisted the help of a former Republican and a convicted felon to try and get Patrick kicked off the ballot:
Murphy’s petition challenger is Jane Faust, a Democratic voter from Bensalem, Otter said. Otter confirmed that Faust is the same former Republican committeewoman convicted in 1996 of forging signatures and consequently barred from holding elected office.
I don’t know if Andy Warren – a guy who got blasted for giving his girlfriend-staffer a 27% raise while a county commissioner, and a guy who got busted for trying to have the taxpayers buy him a car and a vacation to Isreal, and a guy . . . (you can see where this is going) – really wants to get in a character debate with anybody.
Outraged? Check out Patrick Murphy’s website and see how you can help.
[We will continue with our regularly scheduled programming, after this short commercial break.]
