Friday, November 19, 2010
Montco budget blues
Let's see, the county is going to come up short, but no one wants to raise taxes, except of course Jim Matthews, who is the poster child for lame ducks everywhere, leaving his partner Joe Hoeffel, nearly as lame as Jim, and Bruce Castor, to either take a scapel to the budget or risk their chance at re-election. The Scoop doesn't think Hoeffel has the proverbial snow ball's chance of hanging on to his seat, and if Castor doesn't find just the right running mate the Dems will take over the county legitimately in the next election, especially if state Rep. Mike Gerber decides he's had enough of Harrisburg. A lot going on as we wind down 2010. What do you know that The Scoop doesn't?
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Funny you should ask. Reportedly, Josh Shapiro is re-thinking things after the shellacking that the Harrisburg Dems took. Josh went from Rising Star in his caucus, to a junior backbencher from the wrong side of the Commonwealth, in just one election cycle. He laughed at the commissioner's job in the Summer, but election day may have made him more flexible. Or so say my sources, who may not always be right, but who know way more than I do.
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