POTTS FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
The movement to draft Gene Stilp for Governor is still not completed. Perhaps it is required that we fill out the slate with a nominee for Lieutenant Governor. This is one tough conundrum.
Bill Scranton deserves consideration. He is certainly a plutocrat himself, and his campaign for the Republican nomination for Governor is going nowhere fast. His brother in Kansas is a Democrat, and he himself aided the Natural Law Party candidate for President. So he is well-positioned either to switch to the Democratic Party or run as a third party candidate or run for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor depending on how Stilp chooses to run for Governor.
The question is whether or not we need a plutocrat in the Lieutenant Governor's mansion near the National Guard headquarters. It is a better house than the Governor gets to live in, but it is far out of Harrisburg. On both counts--being far out and living well--Scranton certainly qualifies to be Stilp's runningmate if only Stilp would choose him.
On the key issue of the pay raise, Scranton deserves credit for predicting in late September, 2005 that the pay raise would be repealed based on what he was hearing around the state. But he was otherwise not too visible on this issue.
My sense is that it is not necessary to have a plutocrat as lieutenant governor for plutocrats to control the office. Stilp is not (yet) a plutocrat, although I have high hopes for him and the pink pig business. I can visualize pink pigs all over the world, with millions a day flowing into the Stilp coffers. Stilp is coyly playing for time, incorporating his group to perhaps lay the foundation for a business empire, but not yet committing to having one.
While Scranton would certainly be acceptable as Stilp's choice to me, my first choice--somewhat reluctantly--would be Tim Potts. I am a little leary of Potts because of his half-baked educational schemes as a lobbyist to put more money in poor school districts, but I feel his days in this area are pretty much over, even though he is now on the Carlisle school board. He has seen the narrowness of his views, and is working closely with Russ Diamond and the Commonwealth foundation. Despite major differences with his abysmal education policies, he seems to be a man we plutocrats can trust.
Potts is a man of great tactical brilliance. Did you see how he got the most liberal Supreme Court justice kicked off the court? And did it on the cheap, saving us plutocrats a lot of money which can be used for life's greater pleasures. For his leading role in dumping Russ Nigro--the number one scalp of 2005--I think Potts deserves to be Stilp's running mate.
Some would say that won't work because Potts outranked Stilp when both worked for the House of Representatives. But I say that's nonsense. Stilp was attacking pay raises when Potts, alas, was defending them. Stilp is clearly number one in the anti-pay raise arena, and I think Potts is man enough to admit that. A Stilp-Potts ticket would combine both strategical brilliance (Stilp) and tactical brilliance (Potts). With all the money we plutocrats could put in, we could easily buy the election for our dear friends, comrades in arms, and puppets.
As anyone who reads the PaCleanSweep message board regularly knows, the anti-pay raise hysteria that our guys brilliantly orchestrated was only the opening wedge in our ruthless assault on the existence of government and middle class living standards. We are against any pay for legislators and government officials at all--unless we feel we own them. What we want is a weak, ineffective public sector whose employees can be disposed of like toilet paper. And middle class standards of living are just too expensive for us to maintain--whether for state legislators or anyone else.
What we need is a race to the bottom: to ever lower wages and benefits for all. If there is one person who doesn't have a pension, then no one should have a pension. If there is one person who doesn't have health care, then no one should have health care. If there is one person who is poor, the every wage earner should be poor. We plutocrats believe in fairness for all.
Plutocracy united will never be defeated! Stilp-Potts in 2006 is the fix we need to stamp out the cost of government. It's not about reducing the cost of government. It is about eliminating government and governmental meddling in our lives. We plutocrats have a lot of power now; what we want is ALL POWER. Having the wealthy rule is the TRUE public interest, as just about every editorial board in Pennsylvania knows.
The movement to draft Gene Stilp for Governor is still not completed. Perhaps it is required that we fill out the slate with a nominee for Lieutenant Governor. This is one tough conundrum.
Bill Scranton deserves consideration. He is certainly a plutocrat himself, and his campaign for the Republican nomination for Governor is going nowhere fast. His brother in Kansas is a Democrat, and he himself aided the Natural Law Party candidate for President. So he is well-positioned either to switch to the Democratic Party or run as a third party candidate or run for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor depending on how Stilp chooses to run for Governor.
The question is whether or not we need a plutocrat in the Lieutenant Governor's mansion near the National Guard headquarters. It is a better house than the Governor gets to live in, but it is far out of Harrisburg. On both counts--being far out and living well--Scranton certainly qualifies to be Stilp's runningmate if only Stilp would choose him.
On the key issue of the pay raise, Scranton deserves credit for predicting in late September, 2005 that the pay raise would be repealed based on what he was hearing around the state. But he was otherwise not too visible on this issue.
My sense is that it is not necessary to have a plutocrat as lieutenant governor for plutocrats to control the office. Stilp is not (yet) a plutocrat, although I have high hopes for him and the pink pig business. I can visualize pink pigs all over the world, with millions a day flowing into the Stilp coffers. Stilp is coyly playing for time, incorporating his group to perhaps lay the foundation for a business empire, but not yet committing to having one.
While Scranton would certainly be acceptable as Stilp's choice to me, my first choice--somewhat reluctantly--would be Tim Potts. I am a little leary of Potts because of his half-baked educational schemes as a lobbyist to put more money in poor school districts, but I feel his days in this area are pretty much over, even though he is now on the Carlisle school board. He has seen the narrowness of his views, and is working closely with Russ Diamond and the Commonwealth foundation. Despite major differences with his abysmal education policies, he seems to be a man we plutocrats can trust.
Potts is a man of great tactical brilliance. Did you see how he got the most liberal Supreme Court justice kicked off the court? And did it on the cheap, saving us plutocrats a lot of money which can be used for life's greater pleasures. For his leading role in dumping Russ Nigro--the number one scalp of 2005--I think Potts deserves to be Stilp's running mate.
Some would say that won't work because Potts outranked Stilp when both worked for the House of Representatives. But I say that's nonsense. Stilp was attacking pay raises when Potts, alas, was defending them. Stilp is clearly number one in the anti-pay raise arena, and I think Potts is man enough to admit that. A Stilp-Potts ticket would combine both strategical brilliance (Stilp) and tactical brilliance (Potts). With all the money we plutocrats could put in, we could easily buy the election for our dear friends, comrades in arms, and puppets.
As anyone who reads the PaCleanSweep message board regularly knows, the anti-pay raise hysteria that our guys brilliantly orchestrated was only the opening wedge in our ruthless assault on the existence of government and middle class living standards. We are against any pay for legislators and government officials at all--unless we feel we own them. What we want is a weak, ineffective public sector whose employees can be disposed of like toilet paper. And middle class standards of living are just too expensive for us to maintain--whether for state legislators or anyone else.
What we need is a race to the bottom: to ever lower wages and benefits for all. If there is one person who doesn't have a pension, then no one should have a pension. If there is one person who doesn't have health care, then no one should have health care. If there is one person who is poor, the every wage earner should be poor. We plutocrats believe in fairness for all.
Plutocracy united will never be defeated! Stilp-Potts in 2006 is the fix we need to stamp out the cost of government. It's not about reducing the cost of government. It is about eliminating government and governmental meddling in our lives. We plutocrats have a lot of power now; what we want is ALL POWER. Having the wealthy rule is the TRUE public interest, as just about every editorial board in Pennsylvania knows.
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