Posted on 05/14/2022 12:07:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
In February 2022, I attended the Republican State Committee Meeting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Our job, as state committee members, was to interview, vet, select, and support endorsed candidates through the primary and election cycles.
This election cycle, for the first time in decades, the top three positions for governor, lieutenant governor, and Senate in Pennsylvania are "open seats." An open seat is when no incumbent is running, due to term limits or resignations. Open seats always draw more candidates. But this cycle, we Republican state committee members were called upon to complete the endorsement process for approximately 30 candidates, running for the three top open seats.
For a number of reasons — multiple multi-millionaire candidates willing to go the distance self-funded, the unlikelihood of any candidate dropping out, the specter of endorsed candidates rejected by the primary voters — State Committee participants made the very rare decision not to endorse.
Wrongly, the general sentiment was that multiple candidates, lagging in the polls, would drop out. They haven't.
Because the Republicans and Democrats battled over redistricting until mid-March, thereby truncating the legal petition signing from three weeks to ten days, the general sentiment was that multiple candidates wouldn't be able to obtain the requisite petition signatures to appear on the ballot and would be forced to drop out. That didn't happen, either.
Thus, unless the 30-something candidates had been previously vetted on other aspects of their respective lives, the normal vetting process did not occur, due to the exigent time restrictions and the sheer number of candidates.
Ms. Kathy Barnette, who is running for the U.S. Senate, ran two years ago for a different position. She lost mightily. Much has been made of the canceling and then reinstating of Barnette's political website.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I am voting for Kathy.
Ah another political hit peace from the establishment..
Bias is summed up right here:
“Ms. Kathy Barnette, who is running for the U.S. Senate, ran two years ago for a different position. She lost mightily. “
Barnette did indeed lose her PA-4 election, but she also outperformed Trumps performance there by about 10%.
The rest is a rehash of debunked accusations, her employment has been verified.. as has her service and other things
More garbage from the folks who declared before anything began that it would be OZ or MCCormick and have helped spend 60 Million to sell them unsuccessfully…
These same skunks tried to sabotage Trump in 2016. You would have thought that Trump himself would have learned, and not piled on himself.
VOTE KATHY BARNETTE FOR FREEDOM!!!
Damn, the knives are coming out for her.
}:-)4
I'm sorry...I think she's a secret Dem...no matter what she says. She says what you want to hear.
No, Club for Growth, the open border traitors sabotaged Trump and are financing Barnette.
I'll take my chances with Kathy. I don't like Club for Growth, but evidently all the candidates tried to get their endorsement. They probably endorsed Kathy just to spite Trump.
She ran in a illegally-drawn PA Demonrat Supreme Court gerrymandered district. She mightily improved on the performance of the Republican who ran in 2018. But let's not let facts get in the way of yet another hit piece, shall we ?
https://barnetteforsenate.com/about/
“Kathy served her country proudly for 10 years in the Armed Forces Reserves where she was accepted into Officer Candidacy School”
nothing about whether she actually GRADUATED from OCS, though ...
Attack by Another swamp creature. Why is an Obama Statue a big deal. He was a twice elected president. I thot his policies were bad. But republicans by and large voted for a lot of his policies.
She ran in a illegally-drawn PA Demonrat Supreme Court gerrymandered district. She mightily improved on the performance of the Republican who ran in 2018. But let’s not let facts get in the way of yet another hit piece, shall we ?>>> Yes more facts Trump lost Montco the county she ran in by 35% what a loser.
My unsolicited opinion is that I would be voting for Kathy Barnette if I lived in Pennsylvania, but I was curious as to who you liked.
She never got there...spent 7+ years...not 10...administrative specialist...aka...desk job...not that desk jobs aren’t important...but they’re a dime a dozen.
I will be voting for Barnette (or maybe Carla Sands because she is a life long Pennsylvanian). But as of right now, I am leaning toward Barnette. I don’t care if it’s a throw-away vote. I will never vote for RINO’s Oz and McCormick. NEVER!
Club for Growth is helping Barnette because they think it will pull some Oz voters over to her and get McCormick ahead of Oz. It would be so delicious if it actually helped get Barnette the nomination.
Donald Trump knows Kathy Barnette is lying.
Kathy Barnette has lied about her voting record, her military record, and her job history.
With this many inconsistencies, she couldn’t pass a background check to be a TSA agent much less a US Senator.
Kathy Barnette can’t be trusted, and we can’t trust her to beat the radical left in November.
Another stooge for a Mohammadan Turk who hails from the Oprah Winfrey wing of the Derp State Uniparty.
Go Kathy Barnette !
I’m going with Carla, I believe.
She’s an open book.
Don’t know why PDJT didn’t endorse her, as he appointed her as an ambassador and she has always supported him.
Too many questions about Barnette, that she could easily answer, but won’t, apparently.
Can you back up every one of those claims?
The American Non-Thinker strikes again. If a Republican candidate running statewide does as well in that district as she did, they would handily win the state.
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