Carlisle mayor joins group endorsing Rendell (Republican!)

[Judi Lynn]

Carlisle mayor joins group endorsing Rendell


By The Sentinel staff, with wire reports, October 1, 2006

Carlisle Mayor Kirk Wilson and other Republican mayors from across the state on Saturday endorsed Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell for re-election.

And Wilson says he didn’t hesitate to join the group.

“I have nothing against Lynn Swann,” the Republican nominee for governor, but “in the 30 years I’ve been involved in state government, no other governor” has been as good at keeping his promises to communities across Pennsylvania, Wilson says.

“He’s as committed to rural communities as he is to the cities. He’s been a nonpartisan governor — and I appreciate the access this community has to Ed Rendell. It’s been a real benefit to Carlisle.”
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http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2006/10/01/news/news21.txt

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13 GOP mayors to back Rendell re-election bid
Saturday, September 30, 2006
BY SHARON SMITH
Of The Patriot-News
For Gov. Ed Rendell, it must feel a little like 2002 all over again.

That's when several Republican mayors came out in support of the Democrat for governor against GOP candidate Mike Fisher.

It's about to happen again. Thirteen Republican mayors, including Kirk Wilson of Carlisle and Robert Anspach of Lebanon, are expected to endorse Rendell for a second term, according to Rendell's campaign.

Many of the mayors will appear with Rendell today at Harrisburg's Martin Luther King Government Center to make it official.

Wilson said he will be there. He said Rendell got his support when Rendell was mayor of Philadelphia, but that his work has governor has cemented it.

"He has gone above and beyond what many of his predecessors did for us," Wilson said, referring to Rendell's support for keeping the U.S. Army War College and Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle.

"They both make contributions to the community that would have been sorely missed if we lost either one of them or both," Wilson said. "These were issues of paramount concern. Ed Rendell was not afraid to pick up the phone and ask me 'What do you think?'"
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http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1159584916282370.xml&coll=1

[bleedingheart]

1. I think people ...even republicans are afraid that Swann

will make an instant joke out of PA....

They have a governor that helps them, that actually loves this state and to trade him in for a stupid football player is just a dumb idea.

[AX10]

3. True.

[Divernan]

2. More bad news for Santorum ! ! ! Yeeeeaaaaaa! ! !

nt