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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Grumpy Old Vince
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Is Vince Fumo the gift that keeps giving?

Though he's a half year away from State Senate retirement, Fumo is still firing, and not simply in his Green Street mansion firing range.

As the Inquirer's Mario Cattabiani reports today, Fumo believes that "If we introduced a bill on slavery, it might pass."

When Gilbert Coleman, Jr., senior pastor of Philadelphia's Freedom Christian Bible Fellowship said "I doubt that, sir." 

Fumo shot right back. "Oh, don't bet on it in this General Assembly," the Philadelphia Democrat said. "I know some people up here, especially on a secret ballot, it would be almost unanimous."

Do you think Fumo's jealous of all the attention Jeremiah Wright's mustered this week?

Are we going to miss this guy when he's gone?

What, in the world, will he do next - that is, besides his September trial and 139 federal counts of corruption?

Posted by Karen Heller @ 12:32 PM  Permalink | 4 comments
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Posted by GraceKelly 03:08 PM, 04/30/2008
It was an exhausting primary. Everyone is still grumpy! Give the guy a break.
Posted by Karen Heller 03:58 PM, 04/30/2008
He wasn't running!
Posted by pajamas 09:35 PM, 04/30/2008
At first "blush" Sen. Fumo's comments may seem a bit outrageous. But think that about 50-55 years ago blacks and white couldn't get married. It was just three or four years ago that a court outlawed Texas sodomy laws between consenting adults and on and on and on-- Let's face the fact that sexual minorities, whom Sen. Fumo has frequently supported, spoke the truth. We don't need any constitutional amendments. What we need is EQUAL RIGHTS FOR straight folks and gay folks, including the RIGHT TO MARRY.
Posted by Karen Heller 02:48 PM, 05/01/2008
This just seems a very strange way to go about promoting change and equality by dredging up slavery.
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About Karen Heller
Karen Heller has interviewed Philip Roth and Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent time with Pink and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the celebrated and the exemplary unsung. She's covered Miss America and political conventions. She's been a provocative voice at The Inquirer for nearly 20 years, garnering awards for criticism, feature writing and investigative reporting, and was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.