ed rendell - our buddy??

[jack76590]

I just got a flier from the rendell campaign. Here is the headline: "Governor Ed Rendell has been a friend to Pennsylvania's Sportsmen". I go to his website and guess who is endorsing him: the million misinformed mothers. Unbelievable.

[avizpls]

IS he our buddy?

HAHAHAHA


Thats a big negative.

[jack76590]

I suspect I got flier because I am registered as a democrat. As you know PA only allows you to vote in primaries of party you are registered. I just send the following email to rendell HQ in response to receiving their I am your friend flier.

"Just got your flier about how fast eddie is the sportsman's friend. That was good for a laugh. Yes I am registered as a democrat. I changed my registration after fast eddie was elected. I wanted to be able to vote against him in any future primaries."

[27hand]

I got the same flier today but haven't gotten around to see exactly how good a "buddy" he is.

Organized labor backs the Dem's ticket.

A union drywall taper I met said I should vote for my job and lobby my hobby.
I'm thinking carrying a firearm to protect myself must be a hobby.

I don't know why but the picture of one of my other "buddies" holding a shotgun with his finger on the trigger comes to mind.

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[rev214]

portions of an Inquirer article this morning...

Swann, Rendell clash on gun laws
The governor played to urban voters, his opponent to rural. Transit funding split the debaters similarly.
By Amy Worden
Inquirer Staff Writer

It was the battle for the bases in the final gubernatorial debate last night.

Gov. Rendell, aiming squarely at urban Democratic voters, hit hard on the need for stronger gun control laws and defended the need for dedicated transit funds, even if it meant raising the state sales tax.

Republican challenger Lynn Swann appealed to the state's rural pro-hunting population, calling for better enforcement of existing gun laws and criticizing Rendell for allocating highway money to support public transit.

The rising rate of violent crime - an issue long plaguing Philadelphia but brought home to residents in smaller communities elsewhere with the Oct. 2 fatal shootings at a Lancaster County Amish school - dominated the second and final gubernatorial debate.

The stark differences between the positions of Rendell, who supports handgun control measures, and Swann, who opposes any gun purchase limits, were made clear during the hour-long exchange at the studios of 6ABC in Philadelphia. Unlike their testy exchange last week in Pittsburgh, it was more like lively cocktail party banter than down-and-dirty politicking.

Echoing the pleas of Philadelphia Democratic state lawmakers who last week failed in their effort to win support for any gun control measures in the General Assembly, Rendell said limits were the only way to curb so-called straw purchasers, who buy guns legally and sell them to criminals.

"We need sensible laws to control the distribution of guns," Rendell said, calling on Swann twice to join him in helping win passage of "commonsense gun laws" in Harrisburg.

Swann, who did not respond to Rendell's challenge, said he agreed that something needed to be done to reduce the number of straw purchasers, but he said it had to be done through better enforcement of existing laws.

"It's not the actual gun, it's the person who has the gun," Swann said. "We have to make sure straw purchasers are locked up."

Health-insurance coverage, property taxes, government reform, education, and the environment were among the other topics covered in the final debate before the Nov. 7 election, as Rendell played up his 25-year career as a public servant and Swann, the former Pittsburgh Steelers star, made the argument that Pennsylvania needs a "citizen governor," saying experience does not always translate into getting things accomplished.

The debate came as bad news was mounting for Swann, who has been unable to make headway in the polls or in fund-raising. A poll released yesterday by the Morning Call of Allentown and Muhlenberg College showed Rendell with a 21-point lead. The telephone poll was conducted Oct. 3 through Sunday. Independent national campaign handicapper Stu Rothenberg pronounced the race a "blowout" for Rendell.

After the debate, Swann's spokesman, Leonardo Alcivar, angrily called Rendell's challenge to Swann to join him at a news conference calling on the legislature to pass a one-handgun-a-month law "a cheap political trick." Rendell denied it was a trick, saying his request was "born out of frustration" with the defeat of gun control proposals in Harrisburg last week.

[Archiver]

Thats Funny and hypocritical considering where his campaign $ is coming from!

[phillyd2]

Can we get a law making it a capital crime to use the words "commonsense" and "gun laws" in the same sentence?

[Siobhra]

Originally Posted by phillyd2

Can we get a law making it a capital crime to use the words "commonsense" and "gun laws" in the same sentence?

When I hear that I like to respond that I agree. Then I add how we also need to have some "commonsense" speech laws. And "commonsense" controls on abortion. Two things the lib's are most fired up about. Then I add "commonsense" to Jim Crow Laws, Sodomy Laws, etc.

School violence comes from the music the kids listen to, the movies they watch and the TV news shows they watch as much, if not more, than the guns. If we need "commonsense" laws for one, we need "commonsense" laws for the others. And since we have thousands of gun laws isn't it time the others caught up? We need laws censoring rap stars, etc.

We can't keep waiting for their next attack and responding. We have to get them to start worrying about our attacks on their rights.

[manny1]

Originally Posted by jack76590

I just got a flier from the rendell campaign. Here is the headline: "Governor Ed Rendell has been a friend to Pennsylvania's Sportsmen". I go to his website and guess who is endorsing him: the million misinformed mothers. Unbelievable.

He's not getting my vote, as it's time for a change IMO.

[nra-life-member]

If Gov. Rendell is our buddy, then why is he NOT protecting MY privacy as a Berks County CCW Holder. There is NO law that forbids the a county LEO from handing out my SSN along with other information to others (Who post it on the net).

Thanks Just keep on Counting on my vote!