Watching that bumbling fool fall all over himself trying to make excuses for his role in the disaster of the 2020 election has been embarrassing.
Nonsense!
The truth you don't want to hear is that Mastriano did NOT have anything to do with the conception, writing, and whipping of SB 421, which became Act 77.
It was Lisa Boscoli's bill, filed in March 2019, THREE WHOLE MONTHS before Doug was even elected. It was sponsored by BOSCOLA, BROWNE, MENSCH, BARTOLOTTA, KILLION, LAUGHLIN, SCAVELLO, STEFANO and PHILLIPS-HILL. But NOT Mastriano.
And it was a Republican bill, designed to reach typically non-voting rural citizens, and had a number of safeguards that were unilaterally and illegally removed by Wolf and the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, using COVID as their excuse. All Republicans voted for it and nearly all Democrats opposed it.
And COVID was no where on the horizon when it was filed, marked up, and passed.
So all this mewing about Act 77 places Mastriano into a "damned if he does and damned if he doesn't" category.
Imagine the howls of outrage from his constituents if he had voted WITH THE DEMOCRATS, all alone, and AGAINST the Republicans.
So that why this Act 77 nonsense is so dishonest and misleading.
Here's the legislative history so that you can see for yourself: