Posted on 03/25/2022 3:49:31 PM PDT by airborne
Edited on 03/25/2022 6:13:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
As a Pennsylvania Republican voter, I know that you care about your Second Amendment rights. That’s why Pennsylvania must elect a pro-gun Governor in 2022.
I am delighted to announce Gun Owners of America’s (GOA) endorsement of Senator Doug Mastriano for Governor of Pennsylvania.
Among gun owners, Senator Mastriano needs no introduction. That's because he's been a champion of your Second Amendment rights ever since he took office as a PA state senator.
Senator Mastriano’s legislative record is impeccable and speaks for itself. He is the prime sponsor of SB 624, the Right to Bear Arms Protection Act, a bill that would stop Pennsylvania officials from cooperating with the illegal gun grab coming from Joe Biden's Executive Actions.
As a state senator, Doug Mastriano has a 100% pro-gun voting record and provided unconditional support on the Senate floor in favor of Constitutional Carry (SB 565). He was also a co-sponsor of every PA Senate bill GOA prioritized for the 2021-2022 session.
Here is what Senator Mastriano has to say in his own words regarding your Second Amendment rights:
I am 100% in support of 2nd Amendment rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. I believe wholeheartedly that the government "shall not infringe" on that right. I'll fight for preemption and reciprocity and will never support any legislation that seeks to restrict or limit this right for law-abiding citizens. I also support Constitutional Carry and the Right to Bear Arms Protection Act, protecting gun rights from federal encroachment.
Senator Mastriano's efforts with other matters, important to Pennsylvania gun owners, are legendary. You have seen Senator Mastriano on TV, radio, and social media defending the personal freedoms of all Pennsylvanians during the COVID-19 shutdown in PA. Many of these restrictions closed gun stores and ranges, all of which are essential businesses that should have NEVER been closed.
Senator Mastriano took the lead on ensuring election integrity with a Forensic Audit before being wrongfully stripped from that role and having his Harrisburg staff removed by Senate President Jake Corman in a move to bolster his own gubernatorial hopes through discrediting Senator Mastriano.
The stakes are high in 2022. Pennsylvania gun owners are facing one of the worst enemies of freedom ever with anti-gun Attorney General Josh Shapiro as the Democratic frontrunner for Governor.
Senator Mastriano is the only candidate who can beat Shapiro in the general election, so please support his campaign and vote for him in the May 17th Republican primary.
But I need your help today to ensure that Pennsylvania GOA’s Independent Expenditure Committee has the means to support candidates like Doug Mastriano throughout Pennsylvania.
So, please take a minute to send a contribution to our Independent Expenditure Committee to help elect pro-gun candidates across the Commonwealth.
Yes, demonstrating that the elected PA GOP critters are all spineless, stupid country-clubbers.
Time for new blood.
Perhaps you should run.
Really? Mastriano tried to run for Bill Schuster's seat in 2018 only to have the PA Supreme Court rewrite the districts. Mastriano was a victim of illegal acts long before Act 77. He should have known it would be twisted by the communists.
If that did not give Mastriano first hand insight about the PA Supreme Court, Wolf and Shapiro, then he really is a fool.
I supported Barletta's campaign when he ran against Casey. It was a terrible campaign - not sure who to blame. Democrat cheat machine? Lack of party support? Feckless campaign advisors? All the above?
Unlike Barletta, Mastriano knows the personalities, power brokers and backrooms in Harrisburg - experience that should serve him. On the other hand, it's said that Mastriano supported PA mail-in voting, which opened the door to fraudulent votes. If true, it shows Mastriano lacks understanding the consequences of his decisions.
In any case, both men are good candidates. The PA republican party's biggest problem in 2022 will be preventing the democrats from cheating as they did in 2020. What, if anything, has the PA republican party done to prevent a repeat of Democrat cheating in 2022?
You just might find that politics is way beyond your ability to even imagine how corrupt politics have become.
Really. And what part of that article supports your position?
C’mon. Waiting on you. I see the moderator deleted my choice words to you. Just what in that article you linked to supports your position?
A man signed the petition but I couldn't use it; he was from Hazleton. I did say to him 'you must be proud of your mayor' this being shortly after Barletta announced his plan to clear illegals from Hazleton.
That gentleman turned to setting me straight about his mayor. He said he was one of a group of people that had been meeting in person regularly with Barletta and the previous mayor, too, demanding they do something about the illegals and the increasing crime that accompanied them.
It was quite a story; not the kind the msm shares. But I came across this old Hazleton blog that reflected the attitude the guy from Hazleton had.
It looks as if something is preventing the paste part of the copy and paste function from working so if you want to visit the site of the shallow state, it's address is h a z l e t o n p r a v d a. b l o g s p o t. c o m without the spaces, of course.
His is the classic tale of a politician attempting the leap out of the shallow state and landing in the mud room of the deep state where he fills out his application and waits to see if it gains him entry to the swamp; very few people recognize the machinations; which is one reason why we're in the shape we're in.
His credentials can be read at...
https://www.aifcoalition.org/lou-barletta-bio
He served on three House committees: the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he served as the Chairman of the Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee; the House Homeland Security Committee, where he served on the Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence subcommittee; and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, where he served on both the Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee, and the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee.
He punched a couple of tickets but who for?
Nice deflection.
FACT: Mastriano was the victim of the PA Supreme Court, Shapiro and Wolf when he was unable to run for office in 2018 and the left arbitrarily re-wrote the district boundaries.
In 2019, Mastriano champions vote by mail when it was something the left was pushing nationwide. The fraud potential was obvious to anyone except the most arrogant....like Mastriano.
Now Mastriano wants everyone to believe the criminality of the PA Supreme Court, Shapiro and Wolf could not have been foreseen...when it was obvious to everyone here.
FACT: Mastriano was the victim of the PA Supreme Court, Shapiro and Wolf when he was unable to run for office in 2018 and the left arbitrarily re-wrote the district boundaries.
On February 13, 2018, at the Otterbein Church in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Mastriano announced his candidacy for U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district, a seat being vacated by the retiring congressman Bill Shuster. Less than a week after his announcement, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania redrew the congressional district map of Pennsylvania after ruling the previous map unconstitutional (due to gerrymandering by the majority Republican Party), and the area previously covered by the 9th district corresponds most closely to the new 13th district, so Mastriano became a candidate for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district. Mastriano ultimately finished fourth of the eight candidates in the primary election, receiving a total of 10,509 votes.
As you can see, he did run in 2018 and came in forth in the primaries. He just had to change districts due to the Supreme Court. Perhaps you are in District 9, and therefore, did not notice.
Mail-in voting was an issue in 2019, but not the issue it became in 2020 due to the plandemic. They did allow mail-in voting, which I'm sure he has admitted more than once, was a mistake. However, it was not a mistake that he made as the only Republican. It was a mistake made by all of the Republicans. That being said, they did put certain safeguards in with regards to mail-in voting. Those safety measures were obliterated due to emergency powers that Governor Wolf grabbed and then started playing games with Act 77 (basically rewriting it) just before the election with not enough time to to challenge those changes. When the changes were finally challenged , the crooked state Supreme Court said that they, in effect, missed the boat on the issue. Since he was in that position for less than, or little more than, 3 months, I doubt very seriously that he ruled the day on the issue of mail-in voting that swayed the entire Republican Party within your state's legislature.
It wasn't so much as they didn't see the issues with the Supreme Court or Governor Wolf, but rather they could not have foreseen the virus, or it becoming the issue it did, unless they had known beforehand that the virus would be unleashed.
I'm am serious about you running for public office, because like a Monday morning quarterback, it's always easier to think one can do a better job than the job done by the quarterback. Less than 1%, if any, would have actually made a difference.
You can call it a deflection if you choose, but all I am saying is; put your money where your mouth is. For only then can one see the blindsides that come out of left field.
and I would add the departments that Wold controls - like the PA AG.
When you have a democrat controlled PA supreme court, dem governor and dem AG COMBINED with the fact that the SCOTUS has punted on addressing PA voter, PA SC overreach and PA SC illegal redistricting - what is the PA republican party to do? What recourse do they have? These are serious questions.
The sad fact is that institutions that should be non-partisan and should be adhering to federal and state constitutions - are anything but.
Short of civil war - it seems that the only recourse for those wanting a constitutional republic is to replace corrupt legislators and judges with those who uphold state and federal constitutions. Additionally - politicians like Governor Wolf who break the law or fail to honor the oath they took need to be prosecuted and where applicable - jailed.
Agree wholeheartedly. But Eric wants to lay all of the blame squarely upon Doug Maistrano entirely. Which is of course absurd right from the start. Act 77 as originally written was a positive, but the fact that it was undercut as a result of a naked power grab over a false narrative that the virus was more serious than it actually way, are the real culprits here, not Doug.
Doug Mastriano:
Voting for Lou Barletta too.
Exactly right.
You’re right.
Ouch !!!
Beside his ignorant support for Act 77, the article also points out that he said he is “not about overturning anything,” he appeared to support an audit so lawmakers can “find out what went right, what went wrong, and how do we have better elections in the future.”
This doesn't work for me! If someone steals my car, it's not good enough to catch the thief, let him keep the car and then have the authorities tell me that they'll work to prevent future car thefts. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh NO. Put the thief in jail and give me my car back!
I like Lou & I feel confident Trump likes Lou since he asked him to run against Bob Casey for Senator. Lou has spoken at our Tea Party meetings several times. Doug Mastriano was naive to vote for Act 77, IMO. Our state elected Biden because of Act 77.
Mastriano makes a good appearance & seems sincere, but he should definitely not be running because of Act 77. I hope Lou wins the primary. Too many people are running & I met them all at Tea Party meetings.
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