Skinner to GOPers: Follow Specter to our tent
Well, you’ve gotta give Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, extra points for cheekiness: Today she sent to her Republican legislative colleagues an invitation to switch to the “Spectacular” Democratic Party, a la Arlen Specter.
“Democrats will soon have 60 votes in the US Senate and be able to make many decisions without filibusters—but it will take a bit of time for the final stages of legal challenges and to finally count the votes from last November’s election in Minnesota,” she wrote. “If you act quickly, California can lead the nation rather than following. We need 54 Democrats in the Assembly and 27 in the Senate to match this.”
As benefits of being Democrats, she cited:
Posted on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Under: Arlen Specter, Assembly, Democratic Party, Nancy Skinner, Republican Party, U.S. Senate | 6 Comments »