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Tea Partier wins write-in race for Pennsylvania state Senate seat (run as a conservative and win!)
Washington Examiner ^ | 3-19-2014 | Mark Tapscott

Posted on 03/19/2014 9:42:05 AM PDT by smoothsailing

March 19, 2014

Tea Partier wins write-in race for Pennsylvania state Senate seat

Mark Tapscott

York is a modest little city in Southern Pennsylvania not too far from Baltimore and right in the heart of Dutch country. It's not the sort of place where political revolutions are found.

But Republican state Senate nominee Ron Miller may think differently this morning because he just lost a special election to a write-in Tea Party candidate, Scott Wagner.

"With 100 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, write-in votes totaled 10,595, or 47.7 percent, to Miller's 5,920, or 26.6 percent. Democrat Linda Small of New Freedom nearly edged out Miller with 5,704 votes, for 25.7 percent," according to the York Dispatch.

Republicrats lose one

Pennsylvania is a place where it can sometimes be difficult to tell the Democrats from the Republicans, at least at the state level.

Wagner, who owns a trash compactor business, ran on a typical Tea Party small-government/fiscal conservativism ticket.

He attributed his win in great part to the relentlessly negative attacks on him by the local and state GOP party establishments.

Odd party out?

It's only a state Senate race and maybe it's just an outlier. But what if it's not? What if the VIP lesson here is what happens to the GOP when it doesn't run on an explicitly limited government/fiscal conservatism Tea Party type platform?

There's already a party of government, the Democrats. The York happening may herald the first small sign of the birth of a new party of freedom, the Tea Party.

The odd man out here is a GOP that merely offers a pale imitation of the real thing from Democrats. That sort of GOP is a party with no future.


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: lindasmall; newfreeedom; pennsylvania; ronmiller; scottwagner; teaparty; york; yorkcounty
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks smoothsailing.


21 posted on 03/19/2014 10:47:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: smoothsailing

Oh man, that makes it all the better!

I didn’t realize that turkey Gleason was still around, be great if they’d tube him once and for all and get a conservative in the seat.

TEA PARTY BUMP!


22 posted on 03/19/2014 10:48:56 AM PDT by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: Vendome

23 posted on 03/19/2014 10:49:57 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

That’s the place!

I do not like store bought dogs but, seems every place that has some special recipe has delish dogs.

There’s even a place at the boardwalk in Southern Delaware that serves great dogs.


24 posted on 03/19/2014 10:53:55 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome
Here's the best hot dog joint in my little town...

http://www.hollyeats.com/ShortysLunch.htm

25 posted on 03/19/2014 11:04:51 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Is that in Fort Washington?.


26 posted on 03/19/2014 11:19:55 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: jazusamo

Gleason is “The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave”.

http://vimeo.com/46907376


27 posted on 03/19/2014 11:22:42 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Vendome

Known as Little Washington to the locals, it’s about 25 miles south of the ‘Burg down I-79.


28 posted on 03/19/2014 11:26:04 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

LOL! That gal is a good screamer.


29 posted on 03/19/2014 11:34:29 AM PDT by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: cuz_it_aint_their_money

So it starts—the earthquake that will topple the Progs from Power.


30 posted on 03/19/2014 11:59:17 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Liz; sickoflibs

WOW!


31 posted on 03/19/2014 3:56:09 PM PDT by GOPJ ( http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024685964 - democrats hating Obamacare...)
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To: smoothsailing; fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; ...
PA Ping!

If you see posts of interest to Pennsylvanians, please ping me.

Thanks!

Thanks smoothsailing for the heads up

A small ray of sunshine.

32 posted on 03/19/2014 6:53:44 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

Love it,Bump.


33 posted on 03/19/2014 6:59:40 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: smoothsailing

Thank you fellow Pennsylvanians!


34 posted on 03/19/2014 6:59:51 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: GOPJ; sickoflibs

OMG-—we are on a roll....America is saved.


35 posted on 03/20/2014 2:56:06 AM PDT by Liz
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To: GOPJ; sickoflibs; Grampa Dave; justiceseeker93; ken5050; TADSLOS; Libloather; LucyT; PGalt; ...
Tea Party winner Scott Wagner ran on a typical Tea Party small-government/fiscal conservativism ticket. He attributed his win in great part to the relentlessly negative attacks on him by the local and state GOP party establishments.

You gotta love it.

Man, there's lots of agita going on at the RNC.....Karl Rove's at a real crossroads.

LOL.

36 posted on 03/20/2014 3:05:29 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
"Karl Rove"'s at a real crossroads is considering retiring and going after that elusive, large mouth bass.

Fixed it.... ( I wish he would retire... )

37 posted on 03/20/2014 3:17:50 AM PDT by taildragger (The E-GOP won't know what hit them, The Party of Reagan is almost here, hang tight folks....)
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To: taildragger
I'll drink to that.


38 posted on 03/20/2014 3:28:11 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
Tea Party winner Scott Wagner ran on a typical Tea Party small-government/fiscal conservativism ticket. He attributed his win in great part to the relentlessly negative attacks on him by the local and state GOP party establishments.

You're right Liz - gotta love it...

39 posted on 03/20/2014 4:22:45 AM PDT by GOPJ ( http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024685964 - democrats hating Obamacare...)
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