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Friday's Top 10: Reasons why Bob Mellow should not be governor
By Eric Epstein
1/30/2009 - 10:24:47 AM


10. Takes off August to play golf and raise money for himself at the annual Sen. Bob Mellow Golf Classic.


9. Receives $22,000 as a board member of Old Forge Bank, and sits on the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee. Mellow accepted a $8,250 campaign contribution from the Pennsylvania bankers' Public Affairs Committee on October 29, followed by $1,000 the next day from Bank of New York Political Action Committee, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.


8. Gave out reporters' cell phone numbers to Louis DeNaples' attorney.


7. Gave Rendell $100,000 in October 2006 during a tight campaign.


6. Doesn't know the words to "Mellow Yellow," and thinks the guy who wrote the song, Donovan, is a quarterback.


5. Billed the Senate $79 a month for a satellite music system in his district office.


4. "Admonished" for an "ethical matter" relating to the misappropriation of $417,692 in Democratic Caucus Funds.


3. Voted for the 2005 pay raise and accepted $13,380.54 in "unvouchered expenses." Mellow said, "There is no reason legally why I should give it back, so I'm not." So there!


2. Dr. Bob is more effective as a public relations stunt man for Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania, where he serves on the Board with his pal Louis DeNaples.


1. Needs to get a life ... and a real job.


Eric Epstein is a watchdog and advocate for consumers, good government and safe energy. For more about Epstein, click here.


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7 reader comments...
Bob Boyce in Tunkhannock, PA at  [5/15/2009 9:27:38 AM]
The senator flip flopped on support for the Scranton State School for the Deaf. First he was going to sue to keep it open then 3 months later, he is supporting a private school from Pittsburgh, saying that "Private Schools teach special needs children better." He flew himself and several other local reps. to Pittsburgh on a chartered flight, paid he for he says by the senate, and returns and proclaiming success in finding the best possible education for the deaf at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, now all the children at the Scranton School can go to Pittsburgh. I wonder if the Senate will fly them there each week.
Frank Scavo in Old Forge Pa at  [2/21/2009 7:26:45 PM]
Actually, if you think another pay to play, corrupt governor is what we need, then Bob Mellow is your standard political bearer. When Eric sites reason 4, let me remind you that back in 1993, $417,000 was a huge amount of admonishment. Pre Acorn and innovative, yet caught in a vote fixing malaise, Bobby is a poster child for....change...resume enhancer for some of you excusing enablers. Fast forward to 2001 when I ran a campaign to unseat Robert J Mellow. The senator WAMMED my hometown with the promise of a $2.5 million dollar park, which today in 2009 languishes, another broken promise. Pay raises, "get a life" and the coming pension crisis. Mellow is proud of it all. If it is backroom, anti taxpayer, rule of the powerful over the common, then 2010 will be Senator Mellow's year. I am just saddened that such a formerly proud commonwealth has decayed to this level. At least Rendell was comical at times, Mellow will just be painful.

Frank Scavo
Old Forge PA

Eric Epstein  at  [2/3/2009 1:02:39 PM]
Mr. Ranger:

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Please note my comments were intended to be ironic based on the margin of victory. Actually, Mr. Rendell won 61% which I noted in 2007 interview.

Epstein's mistake was cracking wise in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the governor, saying Rendell "believes he has a mandate to pillage, but he won 61 percent of the vote against an empty suit last year and he didn't have a clear agenda until June 30."

A furious Rendell called a reporter at the paper and spewed the following: "Eric Epstein is about as mentally stable as that guy who ate all those people."

Epstein says he isn't sure to whom the governor compared him.

Eric Epstein

Stallone Ranger in Montgomery County at  [2/3/2009 11:34:30 AM]
Epstein, the last time I checked, Governor Rendell won re-election in 2006 by more than 20%, not exactly a "tight campaign." Mellow was not involved in a "tight campaign" in 2006 either.
Jim Pfister in Mechanicsburg at  [2/2/2009 10:41:01 AM]
I don't know of Mr. Mellow, but Reason #6 is a classic. Can't stop laughing.
Rocky Patel in Right Here at  [1/30/2009 2:32:17 PM]
No credit for #6?
Joe in Philadelphia at  [1/30/2009 1:10:21 PM]
Rule one when writing a top-ten list: Have a sense of humor. This guy doesn't.
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