Showing posts with label ACDC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ACDC. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Rage on Behalf of the Machine

ACDC chair Jim Burn issues a P-G op-ed piece today, in which he informs us of efforts to reorganize the party apparatus by using better tools, technology and training. He is fending off accusations of "machine" politics, and blame in general for an uninspiring primary election.

Controller Tony Pecora, after apparently losing the endorsement by one vote to Prothonatary Michael Lamb, went to court and ended up winning the party endorsement.

Didn't this happen the other way around? Isn't Michael Lamb the endorsed Democrat? Isn't Tony Pokora's name spelled wrong?

At any rate, the author leans heavily on the fact that since candidates work hard to win the endorsement, and sometimes drop out after failing, all must be right with the process.

It would have been illuminating if The Allegheny Democrat were still around to issue a rebuttal, but the site went on lock-down mere hours after its discovery.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Drama at the ACDC

The headquarters of the Allegheny County Democratic Committee is investigating a former committee member / office holder / operative.

The departing party is said to have "mucked up the system," and the ACDC claims to have proof of this.

Legal department / law enforcement is getting involved. A detective, and/or perhaps a private investigator, has been engaged.