Posted on 03/17/2014 4:37:31 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA
While he has financially supported mainstream Republicans, Wagner has also been outspoken against incumbent Republicans and supported the campaigns of tea party and other independent challengers.
As an apparent response, the Republican Party of Pennsylvania and the Senate Republican Campaign Committee have launched television and mail ads against him.
The mailer comes on the heels of a television commercial that featured a picture of Wagner superimposed with dead fish. The ad, according to Wagner, misrepresented a 2006 paperwork error as an environmental disaster.
(Excerpt) Read more at yorkdispatch.com ...
It would seem to me that the local GOP is going after Wagner because he has supported independent and Tea Party candidates and is a political outsider.
http://scottwagnerforsenate.com/the-issues/
So is anyone here, perhaps someone from south central PA more familiar than I with this campaign? If so, what is your opinion of Wagner and of these ads running against him?
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As a York County voter there is no way in H-E double toothpicks that I will vote for Scott a.k.a. “Millionaire Trashman” Wagner UNLESS by some terrible stroke of old Scratch he ends up being the GOP Nominee following the main primary.
Reason is simple: The millionaire has had an obsession the past four years of trashing (pun intended) the career of the LAST squeaky-clean Congressman, former 19th District Representative Todd Platts. In 2010 Wagner bankrolled Platt’s opponent. When Platts ran (successfully) for Common Pleas Judge last year Wagner also bankrolled his opponent.
Why?
Wagner represents the special interests of the waste industry. He flashed his money at Platts expecting him not only to jump but to ask “how high”. But since Platts declined ALL PAC money and all corporate contributions he refused and that infuriated the many rightly described as a bully who is used to buying his own way.
Now he wants to buy yet another election—his own.
And NOT through ANY GOP “groups”.
Indeed.
I think I should enclose little notes in the various GOP pleas for funds that I keep receiving, to explain why I am not giving to the GOP. I didn't support them because they're my team and whatever they do is fine. On the contrary, I supported them because they represented American values. Or I thought they did.
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Thanks. That’s what I’ve heard and some of the ads mention this re: Wagner going after Platts and “buying” an election to serve his own “special interests”. I’m not originally from around here, only moved here in 2010 so I’m not all that familiar yet with the local political scene. I do know that Platts seems like a good guy.
So what of the GOP backed candidate Rep. Ron Miller?
I will not vote for any GOP candidate who beats down the Tea Party. Don’t they understand the Tea Party is the future and the peolpe? The GOP has become nothing but a party of thieves like the Democrat Libtards . If we don’t stand our ground now against the establishment we all lose!
Ron Miller is a decent guy. For one (major) thing, he is a practicing Christian (Lutheran). Still married to his first and only wife.
He worked in private industry for most of his adult life until being elected to the State House in 1992.
His voting record isn’t as pure as some would like. In PA you have to be able to work with the Philly and metro Pittsburgh folk in order to accomplish anything. That means sometimes sending money their way in order to get some back in your own district.
We have certainly been seeing more major highway projects during Miller’s years in office than ever before.
The GOP-E is throwing around the word “millionaire” as if it's some kind of bad thing. As far as I know, those garbage trucks didn't appear out of thin air. Wagner worked for them, and worked to earn his millions. I respect that. I don't know why the GOP-E does not.
Wagner will face Ron Miller (GOP-E candidate) for the State Senate seat in a special election tomorrow. Miller will win, as Wagner is a write-in candidate. However, they will face off again in the primary, where Wagner has an excellent chance of winning. If he wins the primary, he will almost certainly win in November, as this is a red Senate district. If I were in that district, I would enthusiastically support Scott Wagner.
I feel for suburban and rural republicans in Pa. Philly, Pittsburg and Harrisburg are a drain on the state. Whenever Philly cries for more money for schools (but the children) or money for otherwise, the state sends it.
Palmer identified himself as a registered Democrat....AHHHH, yes. Another Democrat who thinks everybody else should pay HIS FAMILY bills.
Platts is squeaky clean? He’s a career politician, manipulates events to his own advantage, voted for McCain Feingold, Constitution does not speak to him, making him a scary judge.
Platts always ran grass roots campaigns.
He was absolutely the last member of Congress to refuse PAC money. There had been another from SC but that one caved in 2011. Now there are none.
His voting record did not pass the litmus test for some conservatives. Neither did the record his predecessor, Bill Goodling.
So yes, damaged goods from a TEA party perspective. Still doesn’t justify the relentless persecution inflicted by Scott “Millionaire Trashman” Wagner.
There is no way that I would vote for the radical feminazi Linda Small. If it comes down to Wagner vs. Small I’ll hold my nose to block the refuse smell and vote for Wagner.
The big cities always get the money. However, they have the largest population. Get rid of Philadelphia and Pittsburg and Pennsylvania would have about 5 electoral votes for President and only about 5 House members. We are in a way lucky to have those cities or Pennsylvania would be nothing in politics.
Also, at his August 2009 Townhall in Gettysburg. I heard Platts myself brag about his good friends "across the aisle" and say that McCain should have picked Lieberman instead of Palin for his VP running mate. I lost a lot of respect for Platts then (especially after hearing him do such a ringing introduction of Palin at her October 2008 Shippensburg rally), and so his successor Scott Perry is much better, even though he's a little too friendly with Boehner.
In other words Ron Miller is an establishment, go along to get along type?
http://votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/24073/ron-miller/#.UybtYPldWSo
Hum, he’s for gun control, rather wishy washy on abortion, seems to support things like Common Core, against charter schools, for physician assisted suicide but against medical marijuana….
“He is a Christian (Lutheran).”
Rep. Miller is a member of the ELCA, one of the most politically and theologically liberal church bodies in the world. When our president left Jeremiah Wright’s congregation, he attended ELCA services.
Check out the political, social, and theological positions of ELCA for yourself.
Miller may have a decent voting record, but being an ELCA Lutheran may indicate some divergence with conservative and traditional beliefs.
http://elca.capwiz.com/bio/id/1174
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