Allyson Schwartz

VP: House Campaign For Chet Edwards Continues

by: Chris Bowers

Wed Aug 13, 2008 at 14:15

Rep. Allyson Schwartz (PA-13) has joined Nancy Pelosi's bizarre crusade for Rep. Chet Edwards of Texas to become Vice-President. In what strikes me as either a willfully ignorant or willfully dishonest letter to the Obama campaign, Schwartz makes the case for Edwards:

Certainly, Pennsylvania will be key to victory. Women, older voters, and suburban voters will all be necessary to achieve this win ... Chet Edwards would help Sen. Obama win in swing districts like mine and in states like Pennsylvania...

Chet Edwards  would provide strong support to the new administration by engaging Members of Congress to pass critical legislation: health care for all Americans; comprehensive energy policy; new tax policy; and an end to war in Iraq, bringing our troops home safely and responsibly..."

Yes, when you think of champions for new a new energy economy, universal health care, and ending the war in Iraq, Chet Edwards immediately leaps to mind. When you think of people who are good at good at winning suburban women voters in the northeast, nothing would be better than some conservative white dude from Texas.

This is, to be blunt, dishonest bullshit. I explain why in the extended entry.

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