Posted on 12/05/2005 7:25:25 PM PST by wjersey
One of the worst-kept secrets in Pennsylvania politics will be revealed next month: Lynn Swann is a candidate for governor.
The former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver is expected to announce his plans to seek the Republican nomination at a Jan. 4 rally in Pittsburgh. He will make six stops across the state, including one in the Philadelphia area Jan. 6.
His political committee, Team 88, began sending postcards this week to 15,000 supporters touting a "major announcement" on Jan. 4.
"If it looks like a swan, walks like swan, and talks like a swan, it is probably a swan," said spokesman Ray Zaborney, responding to the question today of whether Swann would announce his candidacy.
For months, Swann has been acting like a candidate, speaking at Republican county dinners, raising money and criticizing Democratic Gov. Rendell. But he has always demurred when asked whether he would formalize his bid, frustrating some GOP officials and donors who wanted Swann to be more definitive.
The timetable was dictated, in part, by his job as a college football analyst for ABC. He will broadcast his final game just a few days before his announcement.
Swann will compete against two other candidates for the Republican nomination: former Lt. Gov. Bill Scranton and state Senate Majority Whip Jeffrey E. Piccola. Jim Panyard, a conservative former businessman from Palmyra, Lebanon County, announced his candidacy in September, but he is not seeking the party's endorsement.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! GO Lynn!!!!!! You da man!!!!
Well look here, this is going to be fun.
USC Trojans continue to kick ass and take names!
They want diversity? We'll give 'em diversity. Lynn. Will. Win.
Oh no, a black republican. An abomination of nature, if the libs are to be believed.
Swann and I had a communications class together in 1971. He knew what he wanted, had a clear plan of action to realize it, was sharp as a tack, and worked like a maniac to get there.
He's just one of many examples of why USC graduates run things. Most universities crank out graduates. USC produces leaders.
So PA will jump on the "outside the box" governor experiment. Hope it works.
Another Republican-American well on his way to the top.
This is great news! I think that Lynn Swann has great potential. I just hope his campaign doesn't lay an egg.
(sigh)...he could be the goose that laid the golden egg for PA.=)
You mean like OJ??
ping
Is he closer to Ronald Reagan or Olympia Snowe on the conservative scale?
They will just call him an "Uncle Tom" and say that he isn't really black because "blackness" is more of a political belief system than a skin color.
BTW, there has NEVER been a black 'Rat US Senator.
senator? Obama and carol mosely braun.
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