“BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”

Tom Paine finds it a little pathetic when politicians jump in front of the camera to try to get a little undeserved glory when a local sports team does well. 

Dan the Dictator found out the hard way that this ungracious act can have unanticipated negative consequences. 

At the pre-Super Bowl pep rally at Heinz Field, the County Diminutive was introduced to address the crowd, some 30,000 strong.  He was loudly and vociferously booed.  This occurred some 13 months after the Drink Tax was imposed and a month after he claimed, to an out of town reporter, that the Drink Tax was a non-issue in Allegheny County. 

The booing was so vicious that Tom Paine’s correspondent, an ardent anti-Drink Taxer, confessed that she was “embarrassed” for him.