Woohoo!
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.
The Heinz Company itself is pretty conservative--they took pains during the 2004 electiion to distance themselves from Teresa--though the announcement may not have gotten further than the Wall St. Journal.
My husband's family lives in Pittsburgh, are all good conservatives, and have nothing but good to say about H.J. Heinz, which has done a lot to help Pittsburgh's revival.
The Heinz Company itself is pretty conservative--they took pains during the 2004 electiion to distance themselves from Teresa--though the announcement may not have gotten further than the Wall St. Journal.
My husband's family lives in Pittsburgh, are all good conservatives, and have nothing but good to say about H.J. Heinz, which has done a lot to help Pittsburgh's revival.
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Oh, please.
He went to USC and danced ballet what do you think?
If he's the man, I'm insulted and yes PA is in trouble.
The only qualification he has besides his celebrity as far as I can tell is that he wants the job.
I know of no conservative associations.?
The only reason I can come up with to elect a RINO as Gov. would be to replace Arlen Specter should he need replaced.
Now, if he should promise to appoint Jack Lambert to a cabinet position, well then maybe.
I believe mixed-race is the current P.C. terminology. Though, I prefer just plain old human. As a right-winger, I total disagree with classifying people by race to begin with for any purpose other than health and medicine.
Let me ask you this, if your children were of mixed race descent, would you want them to be called mules or mutts? Would you prefer words that are single race/religion specific, like the N or K word?
There is no difference here, the word is used to demean a group of people as sub-human. Most people don't even realize it because no one has ever challenged them on the use of the word. You rarely hear it used.
At the very least, he'll be the most handsome candidate ;)
Disagree on that but kinda all in how you look at it, eh? And since you are the very first person I have ever run across who finds mulatto offensive, I will just note that you are ultra-sensitive.
Look, I just pulled out Websters and "mulatto" is: "a person who has one black parent a one white parent". Says nothing at all about a mule.
Wikipedia says: ""mula", the Spanish word for mule, once a generic designation name for any hybrid" "Mulatto (also Mulato) is a term of Spanish or Portuguese origin describing the offspring of African and European ancestry. The forms "mulatto/mulato" are widely used in Spanish and Portuguese. Many Americans of Hispanic and/or Latino origin identify themselves as mulatto; the term is also used in many other countries. In colonial years the term originally referred to the children of one European and one African parent, or the children of two mulatto parents. During this era a myriad of other terms, both in Latin America and the USA, were in use to denote other individuals of African/European ancestry in ratios smaller or greater than the 50:50 of mulattos: octoroon for example. Today, mulatto refers to all people with significant amounts of both European and African ancestry. The origin of the term is often said to derive from "mula", the Spanish word for mule, once a generic designation name for any hybrid. This is not certain but, as a result, it is considered offensive by some English-speakers, who might prefer terms like "biracial" instead. Others however insist on the use of the term mulatto because it is more precise. It must also be noted that words change their actual meaning independently from their etymological origin. Many words that are now widely used once had a negative origin. (examples are: hysterical (sexist origin), berber, slavic, hapa etc.) Spanish-speakers do not consider "mulatto" offensive. In Latinamerica the term is even associated with beauty and sometimes with artistic ability. An alternate etymology traces mulatto to the Arabic muwallad, which means "a person of mixed ancestry"."
Lambert played with Swanny not so long ago.
And, you are confusing Lambert with Steve Courson who recently died in an accident while saving his dog.
Lambert was working as a deputy PA Game Commission Officer last I heard.
Well, maybe with Lambert and Joe Greene. LOL
Obviously you're blind, as well as deaf and dumb.
Spoken like a true, whining, name calling USC grad.
Question: What is his opinion on Mumia Abu Jamal?
Any new news on this issue?
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