Proud times here in Pennsylvania's 30th District -- proud times indeed.
For starters, our former State Rep, one Jeff Habay, resigned from office after being convicted of all kinds of crap that I don't even want to get into -- especially since he still faces charges on some more interesting stuff, including filing hoax anthrax reports.
He might as well plead guilty on those charges as well -- his attorney is none other than Jim Ecker. And as somebody whose conversation I was eavesdropping on the other day said, "Hell, if Jim Ecker's your attorney, you're f**king guilty."
Habay also should be sentenced for utter stupidity after creating a fake Web site in one political rival's name and then filling it with a whole bunch of lies about his opponent. Actually, that part's kind of smart, especially when you learn that Habay set up the site after noticing a typo in the Web address on one of his opponent's mailers. Habay rushed out and bought the incorrect address -- but then PUT THE DAMN THING IN HIS OWN NAME. It took the opponent all of about three clicks on NetSol to realize that Habay had set up the site. Idiot.
We were hoping for better things to come from our next rep -- considering how low the bar had been set, how could we not? And when the two opponents in the special election signed a "clean-campaign pledge," things were looking up.
Well, here are scans of two pieces of mail that we received today.
So who do we vote for -- the five-time jailbird, or the tax cheat? Personally, I think it's time to rev up my own write-in campaign. Oh, sure, I can't be trusted to properly manage a goldfish, let alone the state government, but what the heck. I have no criminal record -- about the only dirt anyone's going to find is the time I neglected to pick up Smithers' poop when we got caught by a downpour while we were out on a walk. (That's called "disclosure," my friends.)