Jay Paterno confirms he's running for lieutenant governor

[alp227]

Source: The Patriot-News (Harrisburg, PA)

Jay Paterno, the son of legendary Penn State football head coach Joe Paterno, said Thursday he is running for lieutenant governor.

The confirmation came after Paterno said “someone found” his unfinished campaign website Thursday morning and began sharing it. The site is expected to be fully operational this afternoon.

“We’re circulating petitions, and we’re hoping to get on the ballot, and if we’re fortunate enough to get the signatures and get on the ballot, yeah, we’re going to run,” he told PennLive.com Thursday.

Paterno, a Centre County Democrat, had been widely rumored to be considering a run to challenge incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Glenn “G.T.” Thompson.

Read more: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/02/jay_paterno_enters_crowded_fie.html#incart_river_default

[hlthe2b]

1. I don't believe in smearing "sins of the father" on the children necessarily, but...

seems like bad timing, at a minimum?

I'm not from Penn, so I clearly don't know.

[Lost_Count]

2. The reason to dislike the children...

... is their continuous denial of any wrongdoing by Pa Paterno.

[hlthe2b]

3. Yeah... that's sort ofwhy I added the "necessarily" qualifer.

[Avalux]

4. I am from Penn, and Jay Paterno is an asshole.

Rode his Dad's coattails and became an assistant coach at PSU; I think the plan was to have him take over and then everything blew up. Hardcore nutcase GOPer; friend of Corbett, LOSER.

Believe me - the people of my home state DO NOT want this guy in office. I'm sure he thinks he's entitled to it.

[Iggo]

7. Oh, so he was a coach at PSU, eh?

I've heard bad things about Penn State football coaches.

[LynneSin]

9. He's not the asshole of the family, that's Scott

Jay is actually a democrat who has campaigned for Obama. I'm still guessing he wants to clear up his dad's name, but he's the Paterno that jokingly ran for the PA-17 house race back in 2004 (and lost even with Cheney & Bush stumping for him).

[alp227]

13. Jay Paterno is actually a Democrat.

Jay did coach at PSU yes, but his brother Scott got into Republican politics.

[livetohike]

5. If he ran against my worthless Representative GT Thompson, he would win! Despite the heavily GOP

majority! There are two other Democrats running, but I don't know that much about them right now.

[LynneSin]

10. Except PA is not heavily GOP just redistricted that way

In 2012 the Democrats swept every statewide race in Pennsylvania. In fact if you added up all the votes for the congressional race the Democrats beat the republican. It's just messed up with redistricting and the 2010 Tea Party surge hurt the state. If we can get the vote out like we did with Ed Rendell and Bob Casey we can win state wide easily. But if dem voters get lazy like they did in 2010 then we're doomed.

[livetohike]

11. Yes and my CD5 is one of the largest CDs, as far as square miles, in the country. Right in the

center of the state. Red as can be .

[Wilms]

6. "the son of legendary Penn State football head coach Joe Paterno"??

Isn't he, in fact, the son of an infamous child-molester enabler?

[LynneSin]

8. I was going to write a rant about Jay Paterno but didn't realize I had the wrong paterno

Jay has a brother Scott who is a bit of a screw-up. Scott ran as a republican for the PA-17 US House seat and was easily defeated even with Bush and Cheney campaigning for him and in a district that leans republican and was just on the outskirts of Happy Valley USA (Penn State region). Scott never really amounted to much.

But turns out this is about Jay - don't know much about him which means he probably actually has a better career than living off of Daddy's name. (just like Scott).

[Kelvin Mace]

12. Uh, no...

just no.

If you have so little political savvy that you don't understand why this is a bad idea, then you really have NO business in office.

[Exultant Democracy]

14. In our celebrity obsessed culture even bad attention is better then none

don't overestimate people especially voters. We had 8 years of Bush and that was never a good idea.

[swilton]

15. I'm never fond of nepotism

and especially when the beneficiary rides the coat-tails from sports to politics...Nepotism alone was bad enough in the Bush family and the Cheneys and then you have the nepotism + sports with the Gorge Allen family now there is an asshole for you....

I believe it is also too abundant in the Democratic Party - you have the Bayh family, the Cuomos, the Sarbanes to name just a few....I didn't particularly care for Bayh and don't know that much about Sarbanes and Cuomo....

But I feel that the motive for running should not be to clear up the skeletons in the closet - there are enough problems where committed people are needed.