New Installment Of Rich Lord's 'Cookie Jar Chronicles' Examines Montour School District

After today's installment of Rich Lord's continuing series concerning the confluence of influential political and elected officials, taxpayers' money, and familiar vendors (today's victims: Montour Area School District taxpayers), is there any doubt that:

(1) southwestern Pennsylvania offers enough material to support journalistic production of another installment each week, at least until the inevitable Rush Limbaugh-Newt Gingrich tandem marriage ceremony occurs,

(2) future episodes would feature vendors such as Burns & Scalo (short-term landlord to the stars), Ford Business Machines and a few politically active law firms in recurring roles, and

(3) Democratic Party officials who influence public hiring and contracts should negotiate a group discount on public relations advice, or at least mass-produce a cue card that reads: "Thank you for calling, Mr. [Lord] [Potter], but instead of saying stupid things that are vaguely self-incriminating, I refer you to the law firm of [Dodaro, Matta & Cambest] [Goehring Rutter & Boehm] for any comment."

Lest Republicans consider gloating, we remind them that journalists could tire of smacking around Democrats and revisit the List-Makers (or perhaps visit the North Allegheny or Upper St. Clair school districts).

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