Mike Buffer Says Hi!

Mike Buffer and his daughter

Mike Buffer is currently a news reporter at Citizens Voice up in  Scranton and Wilkes Barre. But I bumped into him last night when he was having dinner with his daughter. He tried climbing out a window in the rest room, but I was waiting on the other side.

I got to know Mike back when he was working for The Express Times, back when it was still covering county government. He had a knack for really pissing off county executives  Two of them - one a Republican and the other a Democrat - for a time insisted that all questions from Buffer had to be in writing. The more pompous a public official, the more fun Buffer had.

While we chatted, he told me a great Ron Angle story. Blue bloods hate Ron.They like to look down their noses at him. So Angle decided one year to challenge L Jack Bradt XXXVIII's nomination petition to a throne on Northampton County Council, and actually got him tossed  Much as I think voters should decide elections, I loved to see a condescending aristocrat put in his place.

What I didn't know, and what Buffer told me, is that Angle dropped in on Bradt not long after getting him tossed.

"I don't know why you did this to me," complained Bradt. "I'm a Republican."

"What do you think I am, a Whig?" was the Bulldog's answer.