Posted on 06/08/2004 12:25:22 PM PDT by Palladin
City girl wows state Democrats
STATE COLLEGE — Democratic State Committee members gathered Saturday at Penn State University to flesh out the state’s delegation to the party’s national convention in Boston.
But the surprise main attraction was a speech by Cara Rosenthal, a 13-year-old girl from Williamsport who charmed the more than 250 adults with a combination of poise, spunk and humor as she proclaimed her allegiance to the party, criticized the Bush administration’s record on education and spoke out for women’s rights.
‘‘There may have been founding fathers, but there were also founding mothers,’’ Cara said in one of many lines that drew bursts of applause at a university conference center.
Cara, who will enter the eighth grade this fall, said she considered how to spend $43 in birthday money and decided to donate it to the Lycoming County Democratic Committee. After her speech, a state committee member from Philadelphia leaped up and waved $43 in cash from Philadelphia Democratic Chairman and U.S. Rep. Robert Brady, who had been listening to her speech from another location via a cell-phone hookup.
‘‘Young lady, come and get your $43 — you’re worth it!’’ shouted Brady’s courier, Lou Farinella.
Asked what she would do with the money, Cara gave a perfectly political answer.
‘‘I think it’s only fair that I donate it’’ to the party, she said. ‘‘We need the money to win this election.’’
Cara, who was accompanied to the meeting by her mother, was invited by state party Chairman T. J. Rooney after he heard her address Lycoming County Democrats several weeks ago.
‘‘One of these days, I’m sure you’re going to occupy a great place in Democratic politics,’’ Rooney told her.
Peggy Grove of Harrisburg, a delegate from Harrisburg, invited Cara to attend the national convention in July as her guest and said she hopes to arrange to have her included in the program as a speaker.
The Democrats all but finished selecting the rest of the delegates to the Boston gathering, leaving one vacant slot in the 5th Congressional District to be filled later on by state committee members from that district.
Ninety miles away in Harrisburg, the Republican State Committee elected the last 10 members of the delegation it will send to the GOP convention in New York City, which begins in late August.
Three other GOP delegates were automatically designated Saturday when the committee re-elected the party’s state chairman, Alan Novak, and two national committee members, Robert Asher and Christine Toretti.
Most members of both parties’ delegations were to have been elected by congressional district in the April 27 primary. But the election results were delayed by court rulings that extended the deadline for certain absentee ballots, so the parties had to seat the unofficial winners Saturday pending the certification of statewide returns.
As of Friday, state officials said they had received official election returns from 46 of the 67 counties.
Complicating an arcane process, Democratic state committee members from several congressional districts had to appoint delegates to 11 slots for which no one was elected in April.
All but one of the 178 Democratic delegates have endorsed presumptive nominee John Kerry, the senator from Massachusetts. The exception is state Rep. Mark B. Cohen of Philadelphia, who is pledged to Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who quit the race in February but left his name on Pennsylvania’s ballot.
All 75 of the Republican delegates are technically unpledged, but President Bush is the only candidate for the GOP nomination.
Imagine a grown man offering $43 to a 13-year-old girl, with the comment, " Young lady, come and get your $43 — you’re worth it!"
Young ladies should run away in fear when a democrat utters the above words...
WOW, talk about exploiting people. Since when are 13 year olds experts on abortion rights. Sickening.
1. LOLROFLMAO
2.‘‘I think it’s only fair that I donate it’’ to the party, she said. ‘‘We need the money to win this election.’’ All of the Democrats believe throwing money at something makes it work. That's all I'll say for now.
The easily abused being led by the easily confused.........
Of course they have to get them brainwashed and loyal why they are young, and too naive and ignorant to question the tenaments of the marxist system of government the left believes.
Clinton was there?
Welcome to the Democrat Gulag.
Try and project Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush accepting the donation if she offered it to them.
Bubba would, of course.
"Founding mothers" -- no, young lady, there weren't any. All of the participants in Philadelphia at the Constitutional Convention were men. Radical feminist politics cannot trump reality and facts. But the 'Rats will of course cheer anyone who fights reality and facts if their feelings are stroked. No wonder they keep losing!
Another member of The Young Pioneers.
You would never see a story like this about a young Republican in a Dem rag like the Centre Daily Times or something similar.
Sun-Gazette is a solid conservative paper who are "home-town" first. If they got a local girl getting mentioned in an AP article, they're going to run it.
Betcha this young skull full of mush has never seen the stainless steel pans of bloody cut up babies in an abortion clinic. How easy it is to speechify for choice without having seen the actual reality of it.
Yeah, like the Bent One ever paid for anything - especially sex. If he wants it, he takes it. Just ask Juanita, or Kathleen, or the young woman at Oxford...
Actually, I feel sorry for the poor kid. She has been brainwashed by a feminazi mother.
In Russia, there's a group of kids like this.They're called The Young Pioneers
I don't see ANY difference in the two,
*note: LOL
A 13 year old isn't smart enough to be permitted to decide what to eat every day let alone dictate social policy.
Her mother and her lesbian lover probably put the girl up to it.
Was her head spinning around at the time? "The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!"
From the headline I imagined there would be a thong involved.....
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Heh, heh! The idea that such a phrase might be insulting would never occur to most Democrats.
How can you make a news story out of coaching a 13-year-old to repeat verbatim sections of a political party's platform?
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