Tough day for incumbents yesterday. Hopefully Arlen Specter will at least have more integrity than Joe Lieberman and not run as an independent (he said last night it was important to keep the seat with the Democrats, so I guess he hates the Republicans more for the moment). It’ll be interesting to see how Arlen votes as his term winds down. Around these parts, almost all the school budgets passed, as did most of the additional proposals (in my district, the budget passed, as did a library funding proposal, and we’ll be buying new buses). So, good for us, I guess. Still no State budget in place, of course, so hopefully I won’t be getting laid off.
DOWN GOES SPECTER! DOWN GOES SPECTER!
Actually, if memory serves I don’t think he’s eligible to run as an independent. I think the filing deadline has passed.
Hopefully this is the start of a trend of turning multi-decade incumbents out of office. I’m looking at you, Bill Young.
I’m surprised the school budgets passed. That doesn’t sound like proper tax payer rebellion, to me.
The Secy of Ed, Arne Duncan, came to Brooklyn to promote charter schools, yesterday and ran into a lot of controversy as to their efficacy. Poor Arne.
But, the best news is that Arlen is GONE. If only Lieberman were too.
At first I thought that was the worst sounding Big Star video I’d ever heard.