Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Pissing Off Your Most Loyal Voters 101 with your Professor, Arlen Specter...
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) has won seven Pennsylvania Senate races because of the strong support he receives in Philadelphia and its suburbs.
If there's any way for him to piss off about 99% of the population of that area, I think he's found it...
Sen. Arlen Specter accused the National Football League and the Philadelphia Eagles of treating Terrell Owens unfairly and said he might refer the matter to the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which he chairs.Good guy. Bad cause. Not sure what he was thinking here.
Specter said at a news conference Monday in Harrisburg it was "vindictive and inappropriate" for the league and the Eagles to forbid the all-pro wide receiver from playing and prevent other teams from talking to him.
"It's a restraint of trade for them to do that, and the thought crosses my mind, it might be a violation of antitrust laws," Specter said, though some other legal experts disagreed.
Apparently, he didn't either since it took him less than 24 hours to distance himself from his own comments...
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