Well, now that we’ve dealt with Johnny Doc (see post below, read in the the voice of Edward G. Robinson), it’s time to size up the other white meat in the State Senate election, Larry Farnese. When last we encountered Mr. Farnese, it would seem he was stone cold busted on PhillyBlog for passing off some of the worst forgeries we’ve ever seen on his signature sheets for getting on the ballot. But as we must contantly remind ourselves when night is day and black is white, this is Philadelphia, and Farnese is still on the ballot, so far as we can tell. And guess what? There’s fight in this dog! Yesterday, Farnese took a swipe at Johnny Doc after the Inky blew a story wide open about the Electricians’ Union trying to strongarm Governor Ed Rendell into supporting Doc in the primary. “Voters are fed up with the bullying and intimidation; the Governor showed integrity and guts in standing up to the Dougherty camp,” said Farnese in an email blast. His timing could not have been better, what with that whole break-in thing and all. Hot on the heels of that, Farnese then nabbed the endorsement from the LGBT-heavy Liberty City, which was a little shocking in that, let’s face it, you would have thought Anne Dicker would have had that posse on lockdown. But wait — it’s not all sunshine and lollipops, baby: Haters wanna hate, and say that Farnese just might be Vince Fumo’s surrogate. Owie. But Farnese gives good quote: “No. 1, no strings attached. No. 2, I answer only to the people. And No. 3, I am my own man, and that’s the way it’s going to be,” he says. Endgame? Philebrity checks out Larry’s MySpace page, sees all these photos of him with lawnmowers and parents and we think, awww, look: So handsome! OMG, annnnd he’s a Gemini!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 12:06 pm.