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Vote For The Duck! No! Vote For The Gorilla!
The race for Pennsylvania’s junior senate seat just keeps getting more and more exciting. (And by “exciting,” we mean “stupid.”) While Rick Santorum is on TV proclaiming that a newspaper called him too liberal, and Bob Casey is, uh, in a secret underground bunker somewhere with duct tape over his mouth, interested parties are trying to sway the votes toward their candidate of choice. The newest way to gain the public’s trust: Mascots. Yes, that’s right. Rick Santorum has been sending a staffer in a duck costume to Casey events — because Casey “ducks” the issues, har de har har — for a while now, and a group that would like Casey to win is joining the fray with “Grandpa Gorilla.” Grandpa Gorilla is an 11-foot inflatable gorilla that is supposed to show that Rick Santorum doesn’t care about old people, or at least Social Security. The DC-based group Americans United is angry that Santorum wanted to privatize Social Security. So, basically, come November, you have a choice between a gorilla and a duck. Ain’t politics grand? Monkey on Rick’s back [Daily News] |
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PA Action, the state partner of Americans United, is indeed carrying out “gorilla theater” actions at events featuring Sen. Santorum. Neither organization, however, fits your description as “a group that would like Casey to win.” Pa Action and Americans United are nonpartisan organizations opposed to the risky Bush-Santorum scheme to privatize Social Security, something we worked at very effectively throughout 2005 prior to Mr. Casey’s campaign for U.S. Senate. While “Bobby the Duck” may be an initiative of Santorum’s re-election campaign, we have no interaction, communication, or coordination with Mr. Casey’s campaign and do not intend to do so in the future. Our goal is simply to draw attention to the 800-lb gorilla in Washington DC — the stated intention of President Bush and his cronies in the Senate and the House to once again try to monkey with Social Security, thumbing their collective nose at an American public that has indicated vehement opposition to this giveaway to Wall Street.