Ok, I wasn't going to say any more after I suggested semi tongue in cheek that she should pick her your Barbies and go home. Now I am feeling not so tongue in cheek.
Lisa Paolino is NO Anne Dicker. And we should demand better in female candidates for elected office. Voters in this area in the appropriate districts should say YES to female candidates like Philadelphian Anne Dicker, and NO to female candidates like Lisa Paolino from Delaware County. And it is my legal right under the First Amendment to say that.
Lisa, I have seen your faux ballot, and I have seen your ethically challenged car wash coupons. I have read the comments posted by your enthusiasts posted on other blogs around the area/region...does like attract like?
Everyone in the greater Philadelphia area has seen where you feel the need to bully a blogger over First Amendment Rights with one lawyer, and then turn around and claim your phony ballots are you exercising your First Amendment Rights?
I generally don't curse, it goes against my grain, but may I slip in a simple WTF?
Why? Because of the sheer contemplation of it all. Lisa Paolino, do you seriously believe you can play by a different set of rules? Do you NOT see what you are doing is wrong? Do you NOT see how you are giving female candidates for public office a really bad name? How can you describe yourself as a strong, independent female candidate? Whining and dirty tricks make you strong?
And then you write a new press release/blog post on your blog claiming that the boys are being "mean" to you? That you are being "bullied"? Honey, get yourself to a spa for a little rest cure. You have lost it. And can it be said you should just stop this garbage before people start calling you "Almost PMS Nutty" instead of Almost Famous?
And here is an excerpt of this post that just sounds like more whining:
Taking my campaign to court is just another example of the campaign of “harassment” Lance Rogers has run against me...shame on Lance for running a totally negative campaign. Both he and his handlers like to use school boy bullying techniques against women.I am a strong Independent female candidate who will stand up for what is honorable.....And the bottom line is no candidate was ever endorsed by the Delaware County Republican Party – no endorsement meeting was ever held. Meeting separately, the Radnor Republican Committee unanimously endorsed me.....My entire campaign has been about my record of achievement as Radnor Commissioner and about the new look I will bring to Harrisburg as our next State Senator.
On Election Day, my supporters and I will be out in force telling voters about my campaign for change....I want to thank my many supporters and volunteers, and now it's on to victory on Tuesday!
Honey, you need to stop. And the voters of the 17th Senate District should be smart enough to see that you are NOT the best choice. As I took a stand for cutie Gerlach against PMS Lois Murphy, I am suggesting the same course of action here. Pennsylvania Deserves Better. Lisa Isn't It. Of course, now that I have said my piece so to speak, I will reserve the right to revisit my opnions in the general election. I plan on observing this 17th Senate race all the way through, no matter who the candidates end up being.
Some of my other sources of contemplation of the opinion to which I am legally entitled under the First Amendment include:
MEDIA — Delaware County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Joseph P. Cronin Jr. granted the Republican candidate for the 17th District Lance Rogers a preliminary injunction prohibiting his contender Lisa Paolino from distributing sample ballots.
Cronin made his decision Saturday after a two-hour, 12-minute hearing into the issue that will impact Paolino’s ability to hand out ballots on the primary election Tuesday.
“The question will come down to the fact whether he’s the endorsed candidate or not,” Cronin said of Rogers.
Rogers, the endorsed Republican candidate, was seeking both a preliminary and mandatory injunction barring Paolino, also a Republican, from distributing ballots and Cronin solely ruled on the preliminary matter, which, in effect, stunted her from distributing sample ballots to voters entering the polls. He said the mandatory ruling would have to be decided at a later unscheduled date.
...At issue was the similarity in the green ballot that Paolino was distributing and the white and blue ballot circulated by the Delaware County Republican Finance Committee.
After the judge made his ruling, Guy Paolino, who was representing Lisa Paolino, said, “We respect what the court says.”
Rogers’ attorney, Robert Kerns, said, “Overall, both in Montgomery County and here, it was an attempt to deceive the voters and to turn attention from the endorsed candidate.”
Rogers said he was disheartened by Lisa Paolino.
“That is the ultimate form of deception,” he said. “We want a level playing field. We just want a fair election.”
Lisa Paolino was not present at the proceedings.
However, her campaign issued a statement that read, “Taking my campaign to court is just another example of a campaign of harassment Lance Rogers has run against me.
Judge blocks a candidate's 'official' GOP sample ballot
By Derrick Nunnally
Inquirer Staff Writer
An acrimonious Republican Senate primary turned litigious yesterday with a fight over endorsement claims on mass-mailed sample ballots.
Pea-green "Official Republican Ballot" forms mailed by Pennsylvania Senate candidate Lisa Paolino list two choices in the 17th District Senate primary: Paolino and "not endorsed."
The ballots, which arrived in Montgomery County mailboxes yesterday, bore a substantial resemblance to the Montgomery County Republican Committee's pea-green "Official Republican Ballot" - which lists Lance Rogers as the endorsed candidate and Paolino not at all.
In the Norristown courthouse yesterday afternoon, Rogers and attorney Robert Kerns - who is unopposed in a May 8 election to lead the county Republican committee - persuaded Common Pleas Court Judge Richard J. Hodgson to block Paolino's campaign from mailing the sample ballots.
He ordered that all unsent ballots be seized and ruled that no more be made. The judge said the ballots looked so much like the Montgomery County Republican endorsement ballot that confusion was inevitable.
"Any voter reading this would think that she's the endorsed Republican in Montgomery County," Hodgson said.
I also have checked out a cute little bulletin board called Haverford Blog
Lisa Paolino
you are 100% correct.
Lisa Paolino
She lists on her resume that she was a VP at Mace Securities her father's publicly traded company (the same one she gave coupons for free car washes to potential voters) which is being beaten up in the press for poor management. The Inquirer today connects these dots-
Mace also disclosed in the filing that it was issued a grand jury subpoena May 2 by the U.S. attorney in Vermont for documents related to the storage, disposal and transportation of hazardous materials in its manufacturing processes in Bennington, Vt.
And in more environmentally friendly corporate policies, the Inquirer also alleges-
In an event that made headlines in the 1980s, a Paolino family company, Joseph Paolino & Sons, had a contract with Philadelphia to dispose of the city's incinerator ash. Unable to find a disposal site in the United States, the Philadelphia company subcontracted with the operators of the barge Khian Sea. The barge became an international pariah as it sailed from port to port without finding a place to leave its cargo. Eventually, the operators dumped the ash on a windy beach in Haiti.
Louis Paolino said in an Inquirer story published in 2000 that his family's contracting company was not responsible for the incinerator ash dumped in Haiti because it had hired someone else to dispose of the ash legally. Anyway, he was only an employee at the company.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/20080522_Mace_Security_fires_CEO__won_t_pay_severance.html
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