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Before we’ve even had a chance to talk about Larry Farnese — the Center City litigator who’s just entered the race for Vince Fumo’s Senate seat (alongside Anne Dicker and John Dougherty) — it seems as though two major gaffes are doing the talking for him. Just last Friday, the Daily News reported that Farnese had made a huge boo-boo when he listed Philly political kingmaker Bob Brady as the “honorary chairman” of his campaign — as the city’s Democratic chairman (by the way, thanks for Nutter, Bob), Brady makes a point of never officially endorsing anyone. Brady demanded that Farnese immediately remove his name from any and all literature and emphatically denied that he was an honorary anything for Farnese. That was last week. This week, a poster on PhillyBlog got a hold of some of the signature sheets Farnese submitted for his run. As you can see, they look fishier than a late Saturday night garbage pickup in Chinatown.
Before any of this leaked, though, things were already heating up for Farnese — it seems that Johnny Doc got wind of the forgeries and is sponsoring a lawsuit against Farnese because of it. Meanwhile, a Dicker campaign representative, also keeping a keen eye on the stink, says that “We think we identified at least 1200 bad signatures. If we had a handwriting expert we think we might have gotten it down to the 200-300 signatures that Dougherty’s people believe are legit.” Oh, dude. 300? That’s the best you can do? For real? There’s high school student government elections around here that you can’t get into with just 300 signatures. Then again, the stakes aren’t as high if you forge ‘em. Larry Farnese Damage Control, you are needed immediately at the front desk.
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This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 11:51 am.