washington observer-reporter

"The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong."

November 30, 2008

SAVE GUS THE LOTTERY GROUNDHOG, SAVE THE WORLD.

November 3, 2008

TweetIn less than 24 hours, the polls will finally be open. Good times all around. I woke up to learn that I had received a crucial last-minute endorsement from my friends at the Pensblog. I’ve been spending the past few days attending events, dropping literature with volunteers, and generally doing whatever is necessary to get [...]

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Observer-Reporter: Re-Elect White in the 46th. Sounds good to me…

October 14, 2008

TweetI am happy to announce that with this morning’s endorsement from the Washington Observer-Reporter, coupled with endorsements from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the National Rifle Association, Firearms Owners Against Crime and of course my friends in organized labor, I think it is safe to say that I have pretty much swept the endorsement awards for the [...]

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Parades, Fairs, Press Conferences, A Meeting Gone Horribly Wrong, Toasting to Water with Water, Hustling Pool with the Kids, Knocking on Doors again, and The Dungeons and Dragons guy is royally creeping us out. No, he really is creeping us all out. We're not kidding.

August 18, 2008

TweetIt figures. Now that the traffic on my blog has reached an all-time high, I have become too busy to do regular updates. A whole lot has happened in the past couple of weeks. Here’s a not-so quick recap: I recently spent the weekend in Burgettstown, where I had a booth set up for Burgettstown [...]

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The era of the "Ten Word" attack ad is upon us… good grief

July 25, 2008

Tweet I must have been too busy working in the grown-up world to notice it, but apparently the political games have begun. Someone brought to my attention an ad that ran in a local “newspaper” that I won’t grace with free publicity here. The ad runs as follows (poor sentence structure and all): Trust me [...]

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Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

December 15, 2007

Tweet Finally, after 18 long months, it appears as though there will be a lawfully elected Chairman of the Washington County Democratic Party. A court order was recently signed acknowledging that the June 2006 Leadership Election was not conducted in accordance with the by-laws. The case, which is both well-travelled and well-documented, has been to [...]

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Above the Fold and Below the Belt

December 4, 2007

TweetI had mixed emotions this past Sunday as I read the Washington Observer-Reporter, a newspaper that generally does a pretty good job of reporting on what we do with an objective and non-biased point of view. The front page article was a very well-done piece by Linda Ritzer dealing with the concerns involved with the [...]

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