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Conservative firebrand Doug Mastriano enters Pennsylvania’s governor’s race
Penn Live-Patriot News ^ | January 8, 2022 | Charles Thompson

Posted on 01/08/2022 5:26:11 PM PST by Timber Rattler

Doug Mastriano, the state senator from Franklin County who parlayed anger over coronavirus pandemic rules and no-holds-barred support for former President Donald J. Trump into an extended political moment, opened his candidacy for governor Pennsylvania Saturday.

Mastriano, who practices his politics with a messianic zeal that has helped him develop a sizeable following over the last two years, joins a still-evolving Republican field. That field has grown so large that, depending on just how big Mastriano’s base turns out to be, he has to be considered a real factor in the May Republican primary.

Pennsylvanians need to elect a successor to Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat who is barred from seeking a third term in the office.

On the Democratic side, Attorney General Josh Shapiro appears to have cleared the field of any serious competition for that party’s nomination for governor.

Mastriano’s key to success in the GOP primary would appear to be emerging as the top choice of the hard-core Trump supporters in the Republican electorate, something he has a running start on given his vocal support of the “Stop the Steal” efforts in late 2020. And he would have to hold on to them in the face of opponents’ counter-arguments that Mastriano could struggle to grow his base in a broader, general election.

(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: governor; mastriano; paping; pennsylvania; trump
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A real Trump Conservative finally enters the governor's race in Pennsylvania! There is hope after all!
1 posted on 01/08/2022 5:26:11 PM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

If he wins, his first act should be to pay homage to Wilson Goode and bomb Philly...


2 posted on 01/08/2022 5:27:52 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Timber Rattler
Another conservative “firebrand”, eh?

But never a liberal “radical” or “nut job.”

3 posted on 01/08/2022 5:28:48 PM PST by daler
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What is his plan to combat massive PA voter fraud?


4 posted on 01/08/2022 5:29:42 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: EEGator

In before the doom-and-gloomers who will tell us it’s no use voting, no Republican will ever win again, the fix is in, yada, yada, yada...


5 posted on 01/08/2022 5:30:30 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: Timber Rattler

Conservatives are all firebrands. Apparently there are no liberal firebrands.

Better than bring a conservative milquetoast or a conservative pragmatist I’d say.


6 posted on 01/08/2022 5:31:28 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Timber Rattler

Voter fraud will stop him. No one on the “republican side” is serious about making a difference. We need a MAGA party. To hell with the GOP.


7 posted on 01/08/2022 5:32:05 PM PST by Skul
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To: fidelis

They’re on most threads.


8 posted on 01/08/2022 5:32:31 PM PST by EEGator
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To: fidelis

Would you be one of those RINO voters?


9 posted on 01/08/2022 5:34:56 PM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: HIDEK6
What is his plan to combat massive PA voter fraud?

He tried everything to get the useless RINO Senate leadership to call a special session to look into voter fraud, but they wouldn't do it. Mastriano is the real deal.

10 posted on 01/08/2022 5:37:50 PM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: Timber Rattler

i’ll send him money. anyone got his website.


11 posted on 01/08/2022 5:39:26 PM PST by dadfly
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To: Timber Rattler
Love Doug Mastriano. I don't hold out great hope for his candidacy, but there's nobody I'd want to see win more and I hope he proves me wrong.

I'd love to see him hinge his entire primary campaign on tearing a new one into Jake Corman and making the entire campaign a referendum on the failures of the establishment Republicans who keep failing their supporters over and over and get rich off of their repeated failures. Corman kneecaps his efforts to audit the PA election and then tried to rebrand the same idea (with appropriate neutering so no actual fraud would be uncovered), as his own.

12 posted on 01/08/2022 5:41:15 PM PST by jz638
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To: daler

You noticed.

It used to be every firebrand was automatically thought to be a Democrat. Now they have to use the political adjective in front of it if it’s a conservative.

Language is so very important. Don’t ever let them control the vocabulary.


13 posted on 01/08/2022 5:46:58 PM PST by firebrand
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To: HIDEK6; All
Well, Mastriano was going to audit the Pennsylvania vote for 2020 until GOP State Senate President Pro Tempore Jake "The Snake" Corman removed him from his investigating committee, fired his staff, and kicked him out of the Republican Senate caucus so that Corman could run for governor himself...

Pa. senator stripped of committee chairmanship following feud with GOP leadership over election review

Pa. Sen. Mastriano barred from attending private Senate GOP meetings

Sen. Jake Corman kicks off campaign for PA governor in his Centre County hometown

So that should tell you everything you need to know about Mastriano since he's battling both the evil Wolf regime as well as the backstabbing RINOs in his own party who don't want him to audit the 2020 election or any other. Now it's payback time for Pennsylvania Conservatives!

14 posted on 01/08/2022 5:47:22 PM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: dadfly
Here you go!

Doug4Gov

15 posted on 01/08/2022 5:48:42 PM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler

thx.


16 posted on 01/08/2022 5:49:51 PM PST by dadfly
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To: JonPreston

Why do you ask?


17 posted on 01/08/2022 5:51:02 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: Timber Rattler

If he doesn’t fix the fraud problem he’s doomed.


18 posted on 01/08/2022 5:52:26 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: Timber Rattler

done. i’ll still do anedot.


19 posted on 01/08/2022 5:53:13 PM PST by dadfly
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To: JonPreston

“Would you be one of those RINO voters?”

The Republican Party has always had RINO voters going back to Fremont in 1856.

The American establishment keeps conservative ideologues isolated in the Republican Party.

Left-wing ideologues get isolated in the Democrat Party.

If either wing goes 3rd Party they become irrelevant.

The establishment of the United States has been rigging elections since........George Washington.

I actually approve of what they’re doing because I like stability, not radical retards doing stupid shit.


20 posted on 01/08/2022 5:53:36 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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