Posted on 08/02/2024 10:35:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
At the moment, it looks like Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is favored to be selected as Kamala Harris's running mate.
Shapiro has been the target of some damaging leaks in the past week, including the fact that he allegedly covered up sexual harassment in his office. There is also a lot of pushback coming from progressives in the party who don't like his position on school vouchers or his stance on the Israel-Hamas war. So far, none of these issues seem to be hurting his chances. According to reports, Harris will appear at a rally with her running mate on Tuesday in Philadelphia, Pa., and Shapiro has canceled some of his weekend fundraisers. These two developments have increased the chances that he's the guy. From Harris's perspective, Shapiro would make winning Pennsylvania much more likely.
But if he's chosen, a 2011 case from Shapiro's time as Pennsylvania Attorney General could become a significant threat to the possible Harris-Shapiro campaign.
In 2011, 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg, a first-grade teacher at Juniata Park Academy, died in an apartment she shared with her fiancé, Sam Goldberg in Manayunk. Her body was found with a knife in her chest on the floor of the kitchen and the Philadelphia Assistant Medical Examiner Marlon Osbourne found 20 stab and slash wounds, half of which were in the back of her neck and head.
"Philadelphia Medical Examiner Marlon Osbourne initially ruled her death a homicide," NPR reports, "noting the large number of stab wounds, including 10 to the back of her neck. After police publicly challenged the findings, Osbourne switched the ruling to suicide without explanation."
The death was ruled a suicide
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Then- Pennsylvania AG Josh Shapiro backed the suicide conclusion up when the case landed on his desk, despite the clamor that it was a homicide. The Greenberg family has been fighting to have her death ruled back to a homicide for all these years, and there is evidence that many say backs up their claim.
Greenberg’s parents have been battling the city of Philadelphia to reclassify Ellen’s death as a homicide. In 2021, former Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Lindsey Emery testified that in 2019, she reviewed Ellen’s spinal column and found that at least two stab wounds were inflicted after death. Despite this, then-Pennsylvania Attorney General Shapiro upheld the suicide ruling.
But this case is more than a decade old. Why is it going to be a problem now? Well, CBS News reported earlier this week that “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear arguments from the family of Ellen Greenberg, a Philadelphia educator who died in 2011 in a case her family argues was not a suicide as officially ruled.”
Greenberg’s parents have fought for years to undo the official paperwork ruling Ellen’s death a suicide. Lawyers for her parents have alleged the investigation was mishandled.
“We don’t believe our daughter committed suicide,” Ellen’s father, Joshua Greenberg told Joe Holden last year.
Now a lengthy court battle will continue to the next round - Pennsylvania’s highest court.
Stabbed herself 10 times in the back of her own neck?
OK, so how are the Clintons involved?
I think this smells of Obama trying to get Senator Mark Kelly to be Harris VP pick because this tact was used by Obama to get rid of his Republican challenger when he first ran for the Senate by having the judge reveal his challenger’s protected details of the reasons for his divorce .
His boss can easily cackle this off
Right state. Wrong VP. Casey, Jr.
Isn’t he Jewish?
That will be a big issue in this climate
Poso has this right now
Obama would never allow a Jew to know the underworld of the White House.It won’t be JS.
Like me he’s a Jew;-)
RE: Like me he’s a Jew;-)
To quote Seinfeld( who is Jewish himself): “ Not that there’s anything wrong with that”. 😃 😊
“Poso has this right now.”
Yes, and he’s suggesting that the victim’s boyfriend’s family was a contributor to Shapiro’s campaign. They’re all connected to the corrupt Philadelphia Democrat political machine.
In addition, the PSEA is under investigation by a watchdog group for illegally contributing to Shapiro’s 2022 campaign for governor. PSEA is a powerful teachers’ union in Pennsylvania. They allegedly contributed 1.5 million to his campaign from their general fund by passing it to the Democrat Governor’s Association through a money laundering scheme. It is illegal in Pennsylvania to use union general funds to fund political campaigns.
No wonder Republican Doug Mastriano didn’t have a snowball’s chance of beating Shapiro in 2022.
Those allegations are résumé enhancers in the Rat party.
The DNC is desperate for a moderate, to give some balance against the San Fran Extreme Left policies of Kamala... but the far Left loon voters may not allow that to ever happen... especially from (*gasp!!*) a white male!!!
That's the best Lefty endorsement you could possibly give him. That's what they all want... someone who will bring hardcore Leftism, but can do a great job of hiding it while he does it, and still brings in votes.
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