Cobb for the 199th
The Patriot-News has endorsed Bill Cobb for the 199th State House seat. I’m kind of surprised by the endorsement actually. The Patriot has gone from endorsing previous early challengers to Gabig to endorsing Gabig and now back to endorsing a challenger.
This race is going to be interesting. The biggest part of the Patriot’s endorsement, I thought was their assessment of over 2,000 Republicans who voted against Gabig in the primary. Couple that with Democrats voting in a high percentage for their guy and you have a recipe for waking up on Nov. 8th and congradulating Rep. Bill Cobb.
Also, here are some other interesting tid-bits. Gabig is a poor fundraiser. He didn’t raise alot during the primary, but enough to hold on. He had about $4,000 cash-in-hand for the 30-day post primary finance report. I’ll be curious to see how much money he has raised since then. I’ll guess that he raised about another $15,000 to $20,000.
Lastly, there has been a strange absense of Republican yard signs in Carlisle. I’ve seen a few Santorum signs, some Swann signs and about a handful of Gabig signs from the primary. Gabig’s probably got some new signs - I can’t wait to see the new version - he never uses the same ones more than once or twice. So either he thinks the race is all rapped up and didn’t spend the money on signs, or he’s stealing the idea I used to help Jessica Brewbaker win the District Judge race last year - put signs out a week or two before the election.
I’ll be curious to see how this one turns out.
October 28th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Its frustrating to see that this whole “change for change’s sake” movement is still abundant. Bill Cobb might be a conservative Democrat, which earns him the title “not that bad,” but at the end of the day, a spade is still a spade. You might not agree 100% with Gabig’s decisions or behavior, but a loss would weaken ANY conservative agenda by 1 vote and sometimes, that’s all it takes. THAT is exactly what’s so frustrating and self-defeatist about this whole movement.