Posted on 05/10/2022 7:13:33 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
County chairs can’t make a candidate withdraw from the race, and county chairs literally can’t do much of anything in terms of affecting the outcome...
They can call the uber party folks and tell them all the big bossman says everyone vote for XX, but that’s about it... that’s not going to sway much.
The election is tuesday, ballots are printed and most who are voting aren’t people that even know the party chairs name let alone going to take their call.
Let the best candidate win.
Unless of course he speaks the truth . . .
See Posts 36 and 37
I like GEROW
but he seems to be trailing so...
Doug 4 guv
See Posts 36 and 37
I like GEROW
but he seems to be trailing so...
Doug 4 guv
Hazelton was a first class city until landlords with a lot of Section 8 housing to fill let in the garbage!
What could possibly go wrong there. Civil liberties don't get suspended just because of a pandemic. This is a quote from Mastriano's press release when he called for that suspension of HIPAA confidentiality: "I am concerned that existing HIPAA regulations are threatening the lives of our citizens and depriving Pennsylvania residents of knowing if -- and when -- they were exposed to a contagious person. This emergency measure is necessary to share vital and life-saving medical information with those who may have been subjected to this dangerous virus. The new information that would become available would help us combat the spread of the Coronavirus."
The guy had no problem suspending legal protections for people just because he and his fellow legislators may have been exposed to infected staffers in the early weeks of the outbreak. 'Eff him. The governor of Pennsylvania took the same approach when he implemented the ridiculous mail-in voting process that threw the 2020 election into disarray. "We must do this to keep people safe." I'll just say NO to all these totalitarian jackasses.
As for Act 77 (SB 421), Doug had NOTHING to do with its conception, introduction, mark-up, and passage out of committee...that all happened THREE MONTHS before he was even elected, and popped out of the sausage-making hopper just as he arrived in Harrisburg. It was Lisa Boscola's bill.
When an elected official has to use this kind of excuse to explain his vote for an idiotic bill, then you know he's a damn loser. If all this crap that happened three months before he was elected somehow diminishes his responsibility for the law, then he should have abstained from the vote in the first place. Once that vote was taken in the state Senate, this became Mastriano's bill as much as it was Boscola's bill.
At any rate, it was a REPUBLICAN bill, designed to reach lazy Republican voters, and increase turnout, which the Democrats all opposed.
Good heavens -- did you really say that? Does Mastriano believe this? If this is how he feels about Republican voters, then the guy has no business running for office.
As of last week there were about 4 million registered Democrats in Pennsylvania and just over 3.4 million registered Republicans. Do the math, and tell me how this guy with almost no appeal outside one fraction of the GOP base is going to be elected governor.
In a time of widespread infection disease (not debating the reality of covid here), making cases public is the only action that makes sense. Not lockdowns, forced vaccination, business closings, vaccine passports, digital id’s, etc. Let people decide who it’s safe to associate with. If the gov’t really believed what they said about covid, this is the first action they should have taken.
2. If you're going to make COVID cases public, then why not make every reported case of an infectious disease public ... which pretty much renders HIPAA pointless, doesn't it?
In a time of widespread infectious disease, the only action that makes sense is to report actual facts to the public and leave them the hell alone. If businesses want to shut down or make customers wear bags over their heads, then so be it.
“Didn’t Mastriano vote for the mail in ballots that sank Trump?”
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YES he did.
HIPAA is a huge cost driver and serves no legitimate purpose except to move control of information to gov’t bureaucracy.
But in the case of infectious disease it is actually dangerous to invidual rights as privacy protection becomes the rationale for removing all if your rights.
Can you expand on this? I don't see the direct link between HIPAA and the rationale for removing all individual rights.
Also, I’m not sure how HIPAA is a huge cost driver, either. It seems like HIPAA compliance costs would be dwarfed by other health care costs.
I'll bet you predicted Hillary would've been elected in a landslide too.
When it's all said and done, you might have to eat some crow.
Full disclosure: I never liked Oz's TV personality. With him never having a track record as anyone elected I have no idea what he'd be like...and neither do you.
I’m voting for Lou Barletta because he has experience and a decent track record as an office holder. Barletta also holds the best chance of being competitive for moderate voters in the fall. The state Democrats are actually mailing Republican households with materials identifying Mastriano as a Trump arch conservative in hopes to swing as many outraged Republicans as possible into supporting the most extreme conservative candidate. Why? Because they want a clear ideological choice to present in the fall general election that will allow them the opportunity to use heavy advertising to swing large numbers of moderate voters their way. They figure they can easily take all the Philly suburban belt counties as well as a healthy number of female voters simply by spreading Mastriano’s polarizing policy statements. The fall general election could indeed be “Worse Than Wagner”… another hopeless arch conservative failure who specialized in alienating moderate voters during the last PA gubernatorial race.
“I’ll bet you predicted Hillary would’ve been elected in a landslide too.”
You’d be quite wrong, not only did I predict Trump was going win in 2016, I predict he was going to win by marching right up through the rust belt just like he did and did so very early on in the cycle.... But thanks for playing.
I know damn well what Oz and McCormick will be if they win, useless, just like Toomey, Just like Santorum and Just like Specter... You see, unlike yourself, I actually live in PA, and other than a short 15 months in California (where your profile says you are) I have lived here since 1986.. I have seen and know this state, it’s electorate, it’s state GOP and it’s politics far better than you do, of that I can assure you.
Oz is a terrible candidate, and McCormick is not much better, neither will play here... the fact the primary election is literally next Tuesday and despite spending 50-60 Million combined, neither one of them, even the one with Trump’s endorsement can get their support above the high teens to 20s, and that’s among REPUBLICAN voters, tells you just how bad they play.
Oz literally was BOOED when he made his appearance at a Trump rally.. He’s got no legs. You are not going to take Oz, and plop him down in a small industrial town or city in PA and have him connect in any way with those voters. Its not going to happen.
He may be the nominee, and if the democrat brand is so damaged by the economy and Biden he may wind up getting elected because in that situation even a ham sandwich would get elected as long as it has an R beside their name, but I have absolutely no doubt in my mind, he’ll be a disappointment, not a matter of if, just a matter of when. Carpetbagging opportunists are not people of deep conviction, ever. 30+ years of dealing with folks like these two directly give me an absolutely good idea of how these two will govern if elected.
If I have to eat crow, then so be it, but after the success of Trump exposing these RINOs and GOPe types and getting them out of office, I won’t be part of putting another one back in.
Kathy was a Trump supporter in 2016, back when the polls all declared he would lose. She believed in him and in the MAGA message. She is no latecoming opportunist.
So they don’t let the people decide who they want to represent them in PA.
Got it. Start building the gallows so we can fix this problem.
Heck, I just heard from staffers in Harrisburg that the Republican leadership in both the State Senate and House have threatened the entire Republican Caucus to either openly support and endorse David White (the chosen Messiah of the State Swamp) against Doug, or else lose their committee assignments and have their staffs fired. Which is what Jake Corman did to Doug last August when he refused to back down on the audit, which has gone no where since.
I was skeptical of the MSNBC reports, but it is now abundantly clear that the GOP of PA, are indeed going to do anything and everything to keep Mastriota from winning...
Lord I hate the GOPe of this state, they might as well be Democrats, the whole lot of them.
I’m voting for Mastriano and Barnette next week. I do like Barletta, too.
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