DAILY GRINDER: Ladies Not Charmed by Governor Corbett
According to a Quinnipiac Poll, Governor Tom Corbett has reached Bob Casey-like numbers in the state: 39 approve, 37 disapprove, 24 have no opinion. Weird part: almost half of all Pennsylvania women disapprove of the dude. Growing up in a small town, no one ever told him you gotta buy a lady a drink before she let’s you defund her son’s kindergarten. [Commonwealth Confidential]
But here’s some good news for Casey with regard to the numbers game: Keystone voters favor “Generic” Democrats for Congress over “Generic” Republicans – 42 percent to 36 percent. The sugar coating: Casey’s just about the most generic Democrat – and, as far as we can tell, human being – there is! [Politics PA]
While every City Council candidate says s/he wants to utilize technology, only Bill Green is putting forward a pretend plan that does it. He’s calling it “Open Philadelphia Government,” which essentially means “We will (see: wish we could) go paperless!” Citywide wireless internet for all! (Marge Tartaglione, by her own admission, is ready to go blind over the idea.) [Metro]
“Drill, baby, drill”…is not what protesters were chanting at a Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission meeting outside the Department of Environmental Protection yesterday. One activist who made it inside got kicked out after calling Lt. Governor Jim Cawley a “prostitute.” [Post-Gazette]
Stu Bykofsky has messed with the wrong District Attorney this time, folks. The Daily News columnist has written a series about Marcus Perez, who killed someone in 1989. Perez pleaded guilty to the murder, but says he believed he’d be out of jail by 2011. He’s not, and Bykofsky thinks he should be. DA Seth Williams believes the opposite to be true. And he’s griping about it with his own anti-Bykofsky piece/letter to the editor on Philly.com! “MY OFFICE has tried on several occasions to provide Mr. Bykofsky with a fuller understanding of this case. He’s rejected that, and the decisions of numerous courts, as well.” *smack down* [Philly.com]
What’s the greater ornament to scumbaggery: The scumbag or the one who defends the scumbag? You decide: A man was arrested after taking 50 “inappropriate pictures” of a sleeping woman on a SEPTA train. Yes, this includes up the unconscious woman’s skirt. Someone commenting below the article depicting said crime writes, “What crime is it to take photos of someone on a public conveyance? Surely America is no longer a free country when it’s considered to take pictures in public.” Initial reaction: Uh, what? [CBS]
Rick Santorum. Still on the campaign trail. Still saying stuff. He says so much stuff! Now, President Obama has the responsibility to fight “Godless socialism” but isn’t doing so. No word on socialism packed to the brim with God. [Asbury Park Press]
Mayor Michael Nutter is away today at Mayor Fantasy Camp in Chicago, and this makes us sad. He’s attending a forum on city planning. ["The Itinerary"]
Doglovers unite. Eagles Quarterback Michael Vick will not be on the front cover of the John Madden video game package. Video game packages are things someone thinks about. [Wall Street Journal]



