Philly For Change Endorses...

Nobody

The returns out of forty eligible people who voted:

• 12.5% Alan Sandals
• 15% Bob Casey
• 37.5% Chuck Pennacchio
• 35% for no endorsement

Yes, there's 1% missing, but that's due the the fractional percentages I didn't remember.

To the five or six people who voted for Bob Casey, what the fuck are you doing in this progressive group.

To the fifteen or sixteen who voted to not endorse anyone, blech.

I should add that for the group to endorse, the candidate would need 75% of the vote.

Comments

[John Featherman]

Albert,

Sandals got 12.5% and Pennacchio got 37.5%.

John Featherman
Republican Candidate, US Senate-PA
www.featherman.com

[John Featherman]

They did add that there would be another endorsement vote after the primary. If Casey wins and Santorum wins, I wonder if they would back Casey or wait and see if a progressive independent or third-party party candidate would emerge?

John Featherman
Republican Candidate, US Senate-PA
www.featherman.com

[albert]

DfA will never endorse Casey. Jim Dean will not allow it because: read here.

[John Featherman]

Albert,

I hope you are right, but people go back on their pledges all the time. Watch how many members -- not the groups themselves, but the members -- of pro-choice groups will publicly back Bob Casey, saying he's not as bad as Rick Santorum.

If Casey wins the primary and even if third-party or independent candidates can fit the DFA pledge, watch the DFA bend its rules, saying it's the lesser of two evils and that Casey is better than Santorum.

Albert, I ran before, and I've seen this before ... a lot! Special interest groups do this so often it makes you sick and makes you wonder if anybody has principles at all.

John Featherman
Republican Candidate, US Senate-PA
www.featherman.com

[albert]

Go back on a pledge? Then fuck 'em. Fuck you Move On. Fuck you AFL-CIO. Fuck you LCV. Fuck you dipshits who voted for Casey at his meeting. Who am I leaving out?

[John Featherman]

Albert,

The ones you are leaving out are the party bosses who in an anti-democratic way annointed Casey the king. However, they would have never given Pennacchio or Sandals any consideration. They would have promote a party loyalist like Hoeffel or Hafer first.

When you're independent any don't answer to any special interest groups, the party doesn't like you.

MoveOn is the really disappointing one. They never considered Pennacchio or Sandals, and their promotion of Casey is lame. They talk about his support for children, but they don't mention that he's pro-life, pro-gun, anti-gay marriage, anti-embryonic stem cell research, and pro-keeping people like Schiavo alive.

It's sad because it sends a message to progressive Democrats that it's more important to win a race than to promote a candidate with the right views.

I'm fighting a similar battle within the Republican Party, so don't feel alone, if that's any consolation.

John Featherman
Republican Candidate, US Senate-PA
www.featherman.com

[albert]

oh, i've been telling themselves to fuck off for awhiles now, that's not a new one