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| 2005-07-26 | |||
| PITTSBURGH (AP) - Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll apologized Monday to the family of a Marine killed in Iraq for showing up uninvited for his funeral last week and giving out a business card. Knoll went to the funeral of Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich and family members said she told his aunt that ``our government'' was opposed to the war. In a letter to Goodrich's widow, Amy, Knoll said she left a card in case the family wanted to contact her ``and as a sign of my willingness to help the family through this difficult time in any way I can. To do anything that was deemed insensitive was completely counter to my intent.''
``Sergeant Goodrich's service was beyond the call of duty,'' Knoll's letter said. ``If my regard for his family's grief was seen another way, it is thoroughly regrettable. The fact that you have been offended deserves and receives my most profound apology.''
Knoll said in her letter that she arrived too late to offer her personal condolences. That rankled Rhonda Goodrich, who said she believed Knoll came to get publicity. ``She didn't have time to be with Amy or Joe's parents, but she made time for the TV cameras,'' she said. ``That's where I'm still a little bitter.'' Knoll said she has attended ``dozens of funerals to offer my sympathy and condolences to the families of soldiers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.''
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #17 Clearly she believed the distribution of red wine and bread to be nothing more than hors d'oeuvres. As a result she slipped into cocktail party mode immediately. A regrettable faux pas. Opps, sorry. Didn'r realize it wasn't Episcopalian. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-26 16:45 |
| #16 Seafarious pointed out: Midwest Conservative Journal pointed out that she started gladhanding and passing out her card during communion... Clearly she believed the distribution of red wine and bread to be nothing more than hors d'oeuvres. As a result she slipped into cocktail party mode immediately. A regrettable faux pas. What I want to know is: did Fast Eddie Rendell send her, or did she go on her own? |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-07-26 15:31 |
| #15 Matter of fact here's one of a few Berks County Political histories. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-26 11:37 |
| #14 PA has someting of a history of going from Corrupt to Good Government on something of a cycle. My Dad in law was elected a (Rep.) Judge in Reading during a spasmodic throw the bums out election. The office was later made lifetime to his good luck. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-26 11:34 |
| #13 Yeah, Dar, we can always hope. Maybe someone ought to look back through old 17th-century land grants and see if there isn't some obscure clause somewhere in our founding documents than can be used to force New Jersey to take Philadelphia from us... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-07-26 11:05 |
| #12 Dave--I'm not sure of the history of the legislature's balance, but the Dems have not had a lock on the governor's office. That office has been flipping back and forth since '55, with neither party having a firm lock on it. It's unfortunate that Gov. Schweiker (Tom Ridge's lieutenant who took over when Ridge became Director of Homeland Security) chose not to run in '02. He was riding a good wave of name recognition and support from his presenece during the Quecreek mine collapse, in which 9 trapped coal miners were rescued after 3 days underground. However, this current flap of Knoll's own doing and the recent outrageous vote by the legislature to give themselves a pay raise that is plainly obscene (base salaries increased 16 percent, from $69,647 to $81,050, with many receiving even higher raises) will--hopefully--lead to some major upheaval in the legislature and governor's office in subsequent elections. A website called "Clean Sweep" has been established to get the legislators who voted for those pay raises out of office in '06 and '08, regardless of party affiliation, which would include taking Rendell and Knoll out of office as well. |
| Posted by: Dar 2005-07-26 11:00 |
| #11 She's been about shameless self-promotion for years. This latest incident just happens to be one of the more digusting examples. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-07-26 10:38 |
| #10 I'm sorry I got caught. |
| Posted by: Catherine 2005-07-26 10:23 |
| #9 Can we get "Idiot" tattooed on her forehead? |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-07-26 10:22 |
| #8 Granted, Dar, but the votes in the "T" are swamped by all the dead and made-up people in Philly, or all the people who show up at the last minute and sign in identical handwriting, giving the precinct a 100.0% turnout, and a 97% Dem margin. Are there many TV stations outside of Philly or Pittsburgh? |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-07-26 10:04 |
| #7 "Dave-- Only the more urban areas of PA are Democrat" True, but it's an awful big "only"-- big enough to constitute a majority in many statewide elections. Which is how we keep ending up with dingalings in State office. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-07-26 09:53 |
| #6 Dave-- Only the more urban areas of PA are Democrat. The rest of the commonwealth is solidly conservative, and there is solid support for the troops in those areas. Not to mention there are HUGE numbers of vets from PA who will be insulted by this act regardless of their politics. Lynn Swann, the former Steelers wide receiver and NFL Hall of Famer, is planning to run on the Republican ticket in '06. I'm sincerely hoping his name recognition and incidents like this help him crush Rendell. I've even volunteered my computer skills to help his campaign. |
| Posted by: Dar 2005-07-26 09:43 |
| #5 Ferchrissakes, Sea - I'm not even Christian and I know better than that. Wotta f**kin' LOSER. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-07-26 08:56 |
| #4 "Her transparently narcissistic self-promotion and insincerity will probably screw her Moonbat political career into the ground." Not so fast, PD: we're talkin' Pennsylvania, here; the media will cover her sorry ass because she's a Democrat. Our local news radio channel had an item on this a few minutes ago, but all they said is that she'd showed up uninvited at a Marine's funeral. Nothing about her handing out business cards, or her antiwar remarks, or her weasely "apology." |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-07-26 06:48 |
| #3 Midwest Conservative Journal pointed out that she started gladhanding and passing out her card during communion... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-07-26 03:09 |
| #2 I've been thinking about this quite a bit - and didn't expect her to pull a stupid Turban Durban. Idiot. Good. Her transparently narcissistic self-promotion and insincerity will probably screw her Moonbat political career into the ground. Good. I am sorry it came at the expense of the Goodrich family. They should, and you know they'll be interviewed by everyone who can shove a mike in their faces, skewer this publicity whore mercilessly. Sometimes large trends hinge upon rather small moments. Perhaps this is one for Pennsylvania. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-07-26 02:03 |
| #1 ``She didn't have time to be with Amy or Joe's parents, but she made time for the TV cameras,'' Kerry and Schumer must've been giving her tips... |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-07-26 01:30 |