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Pia Varma writes "cautionary tale" about running against Bob Brady
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Pia Varma writes "cautionary tale" about running against Bob Brady
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| Michael T. Regan |
Remember Pia Varma, the young Tea Partier who (sorta) attempted to challenge Congressman Bob Brady this spring, but then didn't get enough signatures, and didn't show up to a court date in which the Democratic City Committee challenged her ballot petition?
Maybe she flaked out because she was busy writing her memoirs (the perfect time to write them is at the discerning age of 27, after all), titled Brotherly Love: A Cautionary Tale of Naivete, Deceit and Corruption, which just came out online. According to the press release:
This is the memoir of a twenty-seven year old woman named Pia Varma, who ran for Congress in the First District of Pennsylvania against one of the most powerful men in the state, Robert Brady. Full of intrigue, this story exposes the relationship between the two political parties that run the Philadelphia political machine.
We haven't read it, so we have no idea if it's complete schlock or a serious look into the sliminess of Michael Meehan, Brady or the Philadelphia Parking Authority. For what it's worth, HuffPo dug it (either that, or they just respected Varma's Facebook game):
Varma, who was heavily recruited to run for Congress by the PA State GOP boss Robert Gleason, ended up a patsy. She found out the hard way that Canuso and Meehan like to do things their own way and color outsides (sic) the lines of their own party. She summed it up in her book during a curt chat with then GOP City Chairman Vito Canuso at the May 11 City GOP Banquette at Philadelphia's Cannstatter Volksfest-Verein, a private German-American club:
"Vito, why don't you care about Congress? If not me, at least find someone else. We can't just let (Representative Bob) Brady go uncontested."
Canuso said, "Pia, talk to me after the Primary."
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How can you comment on a book you haven't even read/ Bias?
When you say she "didn't show up to a court date" you fail to mention that she didn't know she was served. As you will read in the book, the server posed as a producer at a news station, met her at her car (which is creepy) and had her sign what she thought was a standard release. And it wasn't the Democratic committee that challenged her, it was her own party. Republicans who don't won't Brady to be opposed. Why? You'll have to read the book.
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