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Posted on 04/11/2022 2:26:16 PM PDT by knarf
I plan on voting for Lou Barletta.
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Mayor Lou gets my vote.
Too many. At least our sacrificial lamb won’t be a novice like Lynn Swann. That one was stupid-Ed Rendell was too experienced.
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I’m supporting Lou Barletta but his campaign seems to be non-existent. Is he serious about this?
He better be.
Lou is a good man. Good family. I am a independent so I can’t do the primaries but I hope he wins so I will vote for him. Go Lou.
I did send him money to his campaign
It takes a lots of money. He may be doing TV in Philly and Pittsburgh where they do not know him.
Send him some money to help.
He always sends us a Christmas card. We donated money when he was in Congress.
You could have posted the list of candidates so folks would have to talk about.
This is the Green Page list of candidates, Ballotpedia may differ.
Democratic
Attorney General Joshua D. “Josh” Shapiro, • Running mate: state Representative Austin Davis
Republican
former Member of Congress Lou Barletta, • First elected to the U.S. House: 2010; re-elected: 2012, 2014, 2016; unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate: 2018.
state Senator Jacob “Jake” Doyle Corman, III
Montgomery County Commissioner Joseph C. “Joe” Gale
Charlie Gerow
former Member of Congress Melissa A. Hart, • First elected to Congress: 2000, re-elected: 2002, 2004; unsuccessful candidate for re-election: 2006; unsuccessful candidate for re-election: 2008.
state Senator Douglas V. “Doug” Mastriano
Bill McSwain
former Delaware County Council Member Dave White
Nche Zama
Libertarian
Joe Soloski
Independent
Eddie Wenrich
Lou. Period. He is the strongest voice against the invaders.
Barletta is easily the BEST known of these candidates. I’m in the Pittsburgh area and haven’t seen any ads from Republican gubernatorial candidates except that assclown RINO Jake Corman who fortunately stands zero chance of being the nominee.
Gale and Mastriano appear to be good candidates too, along with Barletta. Gale is polling in single digits so he won’t be a factor; it’s between Barletta and Mastriano and if it comes down to name recognition Barletta is a mortal lock.
Whoever wins will be facing despicable slimeball Josh Shapiwo in the general, who needless to say will have 1000% support from the media (and who makes Commie Tommie Wolf look like a reasonable moderate). I haven’t seen a single general election poll for this race, but it probably looks bad at the moment. Once the primary is over it should tighten up but the PA Dems in 2022 are likely to make their 2020 level of fraud look like child’s play here.
There have been some court rulings that attempt to make Democrat mail-in fraud more difficult, but AFAIK the final ruling hasn’t come and when it does.... let’s just say prepare to be disappointed if you support election integrity.
Mastriano is the guy you want in that job. Barletta isn’t a bad second choice, but Mastriano has what I think to be a decisive edge on what he could accomplish.
Neither of those two, however, are going to get anything like full party support in the general election against Shapiro. That’s what worries me. Tom Wolf should never have been reelected, but the PAGOP sat on its hands when the last outsider candidate (Wagner) ran for governor.
Barletta should have won against Casey in the last Senate contest but the party sat on its hands. I don’t know what he has done since then to improve his base or his organization.
Mastriano has been effective in his limited venues at the grassroots, but should have been more effective in his efforts to audit the 2020 presidential election and made some dumb mistakes that sabotaged the effort (before Corman sabotaged it even further because he is a snake). His upside is greater than Barletta IMHO because he would make the executive moves to really unsettle the corruption in Harrisburg. Neither candidate is really getting their name out there in the way they need to pull ahead decisively.
it was hyperlinked under the red, ‘let’s talk’
Mastriano is from my part of the state and has been praised by Donald Trump in the past. A Barletta endorsement is also possible from Trump.
Trump as you know by now looks at what he thinks will win the state he may like Barletta for that reason.
I understand that the former fed prosecutor Bill McSwain has some credentials that may appeal to Trump.
28,000 petition signatures to get on the primary ballot, collected in only two weeks across all 67 counties...more than all his other competitors' combined, including Barletta.
Barletta’s out of $$$$$$.
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