Posted on 10/17/2016 6:58:04 PM PDT by kevcol
Art Halvorson may be the most interesting Democratic nominee for Congress this election—in part because he's really a Tea Party Republican.
Halvorson in 2014 ran against pork-barreling Transportation Committee chairman and political legacy Bill Shuster. Shuster is most famous for his relationship with an airline lobbyist, an obvious conflict of interest for a Transpo chairman.
Halvorson ran again this year, and lost the GOP primary to Shuster by only 1,200 votes—about 1 percent of the electorate. That same day, however, 1,069 Democratic voters wrote in his name on the Democratic primary ballot. No Democrat had filed to run, and Halvorson beat the other write-in candidates, making him the nominee.
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Also, don’t forget about Spencer Zimmerman in Wisconsin. He is running against Paul Ryan as the Trump Conservative Party candiate. He is actually on the ballot next to Paul Ryan.
The Conservative Candidate in PA’s 9th Congressional District is indeed the Democrat on November 8th.
They should have ranked choice voting everywhere. In conservative areas the race would be between Republicans and Conservatives.
I believe this may be the best path to electing true conservatives. Incumbent GOPe candidates are almost impossible to beat.
I believe this may be the ticket for how to replace incumbents like Senator Lindsey Graham in open primary states like South Carolina. Run a true conservative as a democrat and then have him/her run far to the right of Lindsey. This person would receive the democrats vote as well as many conservatives. This is how you dump the Lindseys and McCains.
I should add that this could only be pulled off in conservative districts or states.
I don't see the DNC going along with this. Halvorsen will have no support that the Tea Party doesn't provide. No financial, no GOTV, no endorsements. Wouldn't surprise me to see the DNC campaign against their own candidate, along with the RNC. I wish him luck, he'll need it.
Thank God for the parts of western PA that AREN’T Pittsburgh. That pit of liberal hypocrisy needs to be wiped off the map. Andrew Carnegie is spinning in his grave at the bought of who’s attending his university.
Bump
Halvorson lost to Shuster in the Primary, Shuster has come out and supported Trump. Halvorson then runs as a Democrat because enough Democrats supported him in the Primary.
Can you tell me why someone should vote for him as a Democrat after losing in the primary?
We have a loyalty problem in the Republican party as it is.
In Alaska, our old friend Joe Miller, who beat Lisa Murkowski in the GOP primary for Senator in 2010, only to lose to her in the general election after she mounted a write-in campaign, is running as the Libertarian candidate. Last I saw, he was running second. Let’s get Miller in and turn the tables on Murkowski.
Shuster supported Paul Ryan and before that Shuster supported John Boehner for Speaker.
Both men have pushed through continued increases in the national debt ceiling moving this nation closer to bankruptcy.
Shuster has supported the leadership in their treasonous actions against the financial stability of this nation.
I close my case.
He says he is for free trade then contradicts himself by saying we need bilateral trade agreements. That is not free trade. It leads to the mercantilism that we are more and more living under now. We call it “crony capitalism? though.
If this could happen where Democrats write in a Republican someone please tell me about how Trump is not winning Pennsylvania. This is crossover enthusiasm big time.
The voter fraud and election fraud machine is working overtime in Pa apparently. Cheating is all HILLARY and the RATS have!
I am voting for him have some of his yard signs up beside Trump’s as a lot of people in this area have..Shuster has to go..
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