Times representatives have warned campaign officials for U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart and U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum to stop using the newspaper's home-delivery boxes as a drop-off for campaign literature.I'm sure it was all completely innocent.
Brochures for both candidates showed up in Times delivery boxes in Economy on Wednesday morning.
Spokesmen for the groups responsible - People with Hart and the Republican State Committee's Republican Federal Committee of PA - Victory 2006 - apologized for the incidents and blamed them on overzealous volunteers.Typical Republican reaction - apologize, but blame someone else just to be safe. And anyway who would've guessed that Rick Santorum had "overzealous volunteers"? Gee, that's a such a stretch.
Were there no instructions to the volunteers (overzealous or otherwise) not to put campaign literature into newspaper boxes? What sort of operations are they running over there?
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Huge surprise here. On a semi-related note, I have it from a good source that a lot of Altmire yard signs that were posted in Cranberry and surrounding areas have, surprisingly, disappeared within days of being posted, while the Hart (and Turzai) signs in the same vicinity were left untouched (the source: the guy who put up the signs in the first place!).
While I'm sure kids take down these signs as pranks and such, that so many were taken while the Hart signs were not can't just be a coincidence. These people are sick.
Rendell signs disappeared too and Swann signs magically replaced them. Hmmm....
Stealing of signs and stuff of that nature happens in every single political race, especially the hotly contested ones. People tend to think that yard signs win elections...
Slick Rick and Horse face really can't be held too accountable on this. What if Casey/Altimre people decided to do this to draw negative attention?
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