Sunday, February 20, 2005 :::
Good Copy Rules Jeffworld
Ace TD reporter Jeff Shapiro begins his Sunday sermon with a fable:
Enough with this idea of a press-Democrat conspiracy. If reporters vote for anything, it's good copy.
Okay, Reverend. Whatever you say. Jeff continues the sermon with the parable of the prodigal son, in this case, the role of the son will be played by a last minute replacement, Russ Potts.
Jeff winds through the possibilities of a Potts candidacy, with words like "outrageous" and "malcontent" spicing up the narrative. He also points us to a fun new web site that supposedly has Democrats chortling, StopPotts (check it out -- it's full of screedy goodness).
But Jeff cannot leave ol' Russ all the glory. No. Russ has some accounting to do for his past conduct:
Never mind that Potts embraced as a candidate and advanced as a senator the wish list of conservative Republicans.
In the early 1990s, he supported Gov. George Allen on parole abolition, prison construction and tax cuts, playing the mud-encrusted blocking back to Allen's scrambles-only-to-the right QB.
Potts delighted in forcing the ouster of a state judge who refused to renew a concealed-weapons permit for Oliver L. North, the Iran-Contra figure and failed Republican U.S. Senate nominee.
Oops. The past can be so inconvenient. But Russ will soldier on, even if it means he will become a party of one in the Senate...without the perks and precious goodies that come from holding a position of power and trust. Of course, Russ being a Senator, he could probably find a way to maintain some of what he's got. At least until 2007, that is...when Russ Potts will be looking for a new line of work.
::: posted by Norman Leahy at 2/20/2005
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