Their reasons for endorsing BOTH Frank Daly and Mike Farrell were simple. Daly and Farrell have experience at EVERY level of the court.
On the Democratic side, longtime Media presence Frank Daly, 58, brings a wide array of legal work at every level of court in his 33 years of practice. He also points out that a Democrat has never been elected to a judgeship in the county, and paints himself as a viable alternative to the longtime practice of having “bosses” wielding a heavy hand in the selection of who gets to be a judge in this county.
He is joined by Michael Farrell, who seems to have the perfect disposition for someone looking to join the bench. Farrell, 41, a commercial litigator from Springfield, started as a defense lawyer and also has experience at every level of court...
To the end that a judge needs as wide a view of the system as possible, the Daily Times endorses Democrats Frank Daly and Mike Farrell for seats on the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas.
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You forgot to mention that the Daily Times also endorsed two of the three Republican candidates for County Council, and only one Democrat.
Pat-
That "choice" by them was hardly "news", whereas picking the two Dem Judicial candidates was.
Besides, even though they discussed the council candidates, the Times doesn't actually give the specific reasons for their selection.
They seem to acknowledge Landau's counts of GOP abusive employment/patronage levels, but they're complicit if they think having Landau as only Dem will change anything.
Real change is going to require a clean sweep.
Landau may be a registered Democrat, Pat, but he is not, nor has he ever been, part of the Democratic Party. One thing for certain, based on what I have seen in this election cycle, and read and heard about the past, he is not a member of any Democratic Party Team, and never has been. All the money that he raised from his friends and family this time is the culmination of all the money he has not risen to help Democratic Party initiatives in this County over the last twenty years.
Instead, he has sold out the Democratic Party values and gotten into bed with the radical, wacko, right wing fringe of the Republican Party, including ultra, social conservatives like Rick Lacey, Rocco Polidoro, Breslin, and Izzo, all in the name of getting himself elected. Even if elected, he will be one voice out of five, and competely ineffective and useless, causing more trouble to the people of Delaware County than good. That is why it was so important to run as a ticket, and elect a ticket. As a lone wolf, he will lack any power, and because of his stances in the campaign and the unholy alliances he formed, he will lack any moral authority.
This was the election that the Democrats could have taken control or won at least one or two seats, to make some serious noise to start to effect real change in how this County runs and instill real two-party government. Instead, there has only been lot of sound bites, and disjointed NOISE coming from the Landau campaign, with no coherent message.
What has been accomplished is that one, self-centered, selfish man, and his supplicants have proven true that which many have said for years--he is only concerned about himself and what he can get for himself and his small circle of friends.
He has stolen other candidates' ideas and the Democratic Party platform from years past and passes it off as though he created it himself, and then fails to include not only his Council running mates, but the judicial and local candidates from his campaign operation, unless they are willing to forsake all others for him...He has probably done more to help the Republican Party maintain its monopoly in this election than any editorial, article, issue or endorsement. It is unfortunate, but I truly believe that the Democratic Party will be unable to wrestle control or a significant voice in the County government for that matter, until people like him are banished form the political landscape. Perhaps this will be the election to do so.
WhyNotUs-
Your analysis of Landau reminds me of what I've seen of the Sestak campaign during and since the election. Joe's been essentially invisible this 2007 campaign season (except for raising his own 1.4 million for 2008). More on that topic Nov 7th.....
whynotus:
You are not alone in your disillusionment with Landau. I heard Paul Scoles had made similar comments about Landau, noting that he picked up all of the Sestak campaign's rejects (all those who were too bad or whacko for him to hire) and was running a selfish campaign and lacking a coherent message.
Also, I recently heard that Innelli and Cliff Wilson sued Landau for libel and slander. Any idea what that was all about?
Delco:
Who is Cliff Wilson???
I am sure since you know everyhting, you'll enlighten us, just so you can use it to smear Innelli and Landau to help your boys and girls win. By the way, the commercials your people are running are a huge waste of time and money.
Last I checked, Cliff Wilson was the Chair of the Delaware County Democratic Party. He and Innelli sued David Landau for libel and slander. Just supports your label of Landau as not being a team player and perhaps shows some of the underlying animosity between the Dem Party and Landau.
Not trying to smear Innelli with it at all, since it was innelli who sued Landau on Wilson's behalf.
How many years ago was that??? I guess David can shoot off his mouth and get his behind in trouble. If he got sued he probbaly deserved it, but I am sure they are all big boys and have put that episod behind them. In any event, the Rs need to share power, and in a perfect world, they would all go down this time to learn a little humility. Reality dictates that a clean sweep for Dems is not in the cards yet, so, imo, it would probably be infinitely better for Delco that if there is one Dem to be elected, it be someone other than David Landau. You and I probably agree on that.
Delco and WhyNotUs-
I had heard a while ago that there was some history with Landau and Wilson, but didn't know the details. Recently, I did hear about some kind of lawsuit, but I also heard that involved the Delco Times as well. I still don't know the details, though. It's ancient history, though probably an amusing story.
WhyNotUs- Do we know each other? I post under my real name, so I'm easy to find at various Dem events, fund raisers and meetings. Feel free to introduce yourself some time.
Delco-
Since you are clearly a GOP shill, any chance of you revealing your name to put your comments in context?
Pat is total shill for Andy and has a enough history/controversy surrounding her for people to consider the source and gauge her arguments.
How about you? You could be any one of several top GOP fluffers, like Puppio or Peterson.
That "choice" by them was hardly "news", whereas picking the two Dem Judicial candidates was.
You're kidding, right? You don't think the fact that the Daily Times endorsed one of yours is news? What the heck is going on here?!
Oh, never mind, I see. The Delco Dems have embarked on their annual playground fight, and this time, it's Landau everyone hates.
Pat is total shill for Andy and has a enough history/controversy surrounding her for people to consider the source and gauge her arguments.
(A) If you had any friends, you might know the difference between a "friend" and a "shill."
(B) I have "history/controversy surrounding" me because I did all the things that you and the rest of the Haverford Dems were too cowardly to do.
And yes, people do consider the source. Did you know I've actually received fan mail? And I've lost count of the number of people, complete strangers, who've approached me to thank me for taking on the Moran/Twardy crowd.
How about you?
Hey Pat, how long are you and Andy going to trade on the Moran/Twardy stuff??? It is now getting old. As for Dems being too cowardly, you and Andy would not be in the position you are in wihtout those "cowardly" helping you. You are just a political opportunist, hungry for power. IF Andy wins, I can't wait to see how you try to go Clouse on people.
Pat-
I get people coming up to me at events or emailing me all the time thanking me for running this blog and deconstructing the GOP talking points and foolishness.
The so called "cowardly Dems" elected Dems to replace Twardy and Kelly. That's what change Haverford. And, why should we have gotten involved in your civil war, anyway? We'd much rather hand out ammunition to both sides and watch you shoot it out. :-)
Of course, Haverford needs a few more Dems. We've got 5 running this year and we need to win only 3 of them to take over the board and REALLY clean up Haverford.
I suspect the people coming up to you at events or emailing you are your fellow Delco Dems.
And you've got your facts wrong: the Democrats didn't beat Joe Kelly, we did. Mario Oliva completely cleaned Joe's clock, and then went on to beat the Democratic contender.
It's almost touching to read your fantasies about taking over the Board of Commissioners. With the exception of Rob Trumbull, every one of your candidates is going down in flames.
Pat-
I said "The so called "cowardly Dems" elected Dems to replace Twardy and Kelly."
The Dems beat the guy that beat Kelly. So, yes, a Dem replaced the seat formally held by Kelly. I didn't say we ran against him, but we would have beaten him too.
Chrzan's going to beat McGarrity. Abel will beat Heilman, especially if the Twardy group decides to spite your faction.
Brian Kennedy in the 9th is a coin-flip and tough to call. The weather will be decent and that helps our side.
Wow, you are even less rational than I thought.
Try to follow this.
Mario Oliva defeated Joe Kelly in the May 2005 Republican primary. Mario is, by definition, a Republican. Mario then defeated the Democrat, Dan Quinn, in the November 2005 general election.
Get it?
There is no possibility whatsoever that Larry Chrzan will beat Jim McGarrity.
There is no possibility whatsoever that Larry Abel will beat Jeff Heilmann. And in the Fifth Ward the "Twardy faction" has already turned on Jeff, but that hardly matters, since the entire faction is comprised of Joan Miller and her family, and Lynne Cohen (and Yummy Kincaid, but he died a few weeks ago).
Brian Kennedy in the Ninth struck me in the debate as an intelligent, reasonable guy, but Bill Wechsler is very well known, and (justifiably) well respected.
I would be surprised if any of your candidates got more than 35% of the vote.
Pat-
I was mistaken about that Kelly race. I always get the 2nd and 8th ward confused. The Dems has done a lot of damage exposing Kelly, and that's what I was thinking about. I think Mario might have had some Dem support (I think there was some internal debate on that strategy). But, I think one of the things that did help Mario was the GOP fear that Kelly was beatable by the Dems.
Really, David, you just don't know what you're talking about.
The Democratic presence is the Second Ward is just about zero. The entire race was Kelly v. Oliva. When Mario Oliva won, it was over. The Democrat never had a chance, and the Democrats were never a factor in the race, not at all.
And the idea that Democrats had something to do with exposing Kelly is equally absurd. They didn't do a single thing about him, ever. We did it all.
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