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To: Distribution [Politicians, Media, Potentially-Interested Persons]

Re: PA “Forensic Audit” of 2020 POTUS Election [PART CCXXXVIII] – “Doug4Gov” F/U
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It is now necessary to provide instant follow-up regarding Mastriano’s announcement;

encompassed will be clarifications regarding the specifics of the Announcement *memo*
plus how his campaign is being mischaracterized by lefties (annotated) and how a prior
hyperlink regarding Barletta must be updated. As usual, reactions will be “circled back.”

Inevitable when a rush-job is completed (capturing the before/during/after of 4½ hours

of hoopla), the Mastriano-Announcement *memo* requires a few tweaks/elucidations;
the essence thereof is unaltered and it’s anticipated that an updated poll will confirm his
front-runner status, perhaps even dissuading competitors from circulating petitions.
Meanwhile a fly-in-the-ointment has emerged—perhaps explaining Bannon’s cow-towing
to Corman despite his having repeatedly disclaimed any interest in altering 11/3/2020;
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway joined the Corman gubernatorial campaign.

Doug is seemingly being interviewed constantly, including John Fredericks, Newsmax

[discussing 1/6], David A. Damiani, Jeremy Herrell [@ 33 min], Dan Ball [regarding fights
delivering Illegals to NE-PA], and WWDB [providing an hourlong patter of his legislative
efforts/accomplishments despite Corman’s obstructionism]. Invoking the New Testament
plural-form usage of the word “Works,” his Works span every major issue-category. Yet,
he hasn’t neglected the human-side of his leadership role, as per his website’s Tributes
and Testimonials [noting, in particular that of the “Fiddler Doug on the Roof” performer,
Jaymie Jill Bellet, as per this *loop*]. [Erratum: There are two “Ernie Springer” personages
and, thus, the bearded individual sitting next to me was not the one who’s a pastor; Pastor
David Damiani leads the Family Worship Center and hosted Doug’s June mega-event.]

Liz Diehl is the *energetic* Bucks County coordinator for Doug Mastriano who gave me
the seat from which I captured Jaymie; we’re lucky because that portion of the video was
distorted and this was a Magnum Opus that required lifelong preservation (particularly
because it served as the “intro” to Doug/Rebbie, immediately preceding their comments).

“City & State PA” reported the event accurately [Five takeaways from Doug Mastriano’s
gubernatorial campaign launch] and a former competitor [who told me @ PLC that he
opposes a forensic audit and who endorsed David White] Senator Dan Laughlin said that
“Doug’s a friend, and he certainly has a pretty strong base of supporters. I don’t know if
it’s enough to win a statewide election, but we’ll see how this plays out in the primary,”
An article [1/11/2022] published on the left-wing Jewish Telegraphic Agency typifies how
much Doug has impacted both statewide race and, potentially, national politics. This
was illustrated by three hyperlinks inserted into the piece, each of which was pejorative.

• Why Jewish Republicans will never call January 6 an insurrection

• Why January 6 was an inflection point in U.S. history
• Trump just crossed a red line for his evangelical and Jewish fans

The essay liberally cited a hit-piece in The New Yorker [White Nationalism, conjured by
Eliza Griswold] and promptly disseminated among libs that INCORRECTLY characterized
him as embodying “the spread of a movement centered on the belief that God intended
America to be a Christian nation.” The cited anecdote hardly supports the attack:

Writing to Griswold, Mastriano rejected the Christian nationalist label,

telling her, “Is this a term you fabricated? What does it mean and where
have I indicated that I am a Christian Nationalist?”

One anecdote, however, in the piece seems to [sic] particularly

undergird Griswold’s conclusion:

“As the effort to delegitimize the election heated

up, Mastriano told his supporters on Facebook, “You know,
when things go wrong, oftentimes Christians will say, ‘Oh,
it’s God’s will,’ and kind of throw their hands. That’s
nonsense. What a cop-out. Please don’t do that. This isn’t
His will.”

As lockdowns took hold, Mastriano railed against what he saw as the

curtailment of God-given freedoms.

It also cited Griswold’s unsubstantiated accusation [“Mastriano used campaign funds to

charter buses to bring Trump supporters to the Jan. 6, 2021 rally”] and it perpetuated
incorrect reportage [“Jenna Ellis, an attorney who worked to overturn the 2020 election
results for Trump, appeared alongside Mastriano at the event, according to the York Daily
Record”]. It CORRECTLY concluded [ominously to the writer, optimistically to others]:

… GOP Party leaders in the Keystone State face the same choices about the
future of the state party as their colleagues on Capitol Hill.

As is sadly customary in output from legacy media [channeling lefties], pervasive also
were biased word-choice [claiming Flynn had been “disgraced”] and quote-choice [by a
never-Trumper who had previously been a good-guy for opposing the (JCPOA) Iran-Nuke
Capitulation-Pact, as had I (The House must sue to block illegal Iran pact)]. This posture
will assuredly punctuate future Dem-messaging (particularly directed at Jews):
Although Doug Mastriano isn’t Jewish, he announced his PA-gubernatorial
candidacy by using elements of Jewish worship where a man donned a
tallit (Jewish prayer shawl) and blew a shofar.

Mastriano, a Pennsylvania state senator who has fashioned a political

persona for himself in the style of Donald Trump, cast doubt on the results
of the 2020 presidential election and spoken out against vaccine
mandates, had long been expected to enter the governor’s race before
formally announcing his candidacy Saturday.

Mastriano is running as a Republican and, if he wins the primary, will likely

face off against Josh Shapiro, the state’s Democratic attorney general who
rose to prominence by vocally opposing efforts to cast doubt on Joe
Biden’s victory in the state in the 2020 presidential election. Shapiro is
Jewish.

The use of shofars by Christians at right-wing political events has become

increasingly common in recent years and this was not the first time
Mastriano has attended a right-wing event where a shofar was blown.

In December 2020, he attended a series of “Jericho Marches” in

Washington, D.C. where Trump’s supporters prayed for him to remain
president. Jack Jenkins, a reporter for Religion News Service, told the New
Yorker that the event was intended to mimic the Biblical story in which the
walls of Jericho fell. “They blew on shofars believing they could literally
overturn the election results,” Jenkins said.

And Mastriano was in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 when Trump’s

supporters rallied and later stormed the Capitol, with some of them
sounding shofars.

According to the New Yorker, Mastriano used campaign funds to charter

buses to bring Trump supporters to the Jan. 6, 2021 rally. Although
Mastriano said he left the Capitol after it was clearly “no longer a peaceful
protest,” some of his Democratic colleagues in the state senate have called
for him to be expelled or court-martialed.

Mastriano has made “establishment Republicans” his enemy and was

condemned by some of them on social media. “I know, it’s a free country,
so I guess Mr. Mastriano is free to appropriate two of the most meaningful
elements of Jewish worship, the prayer shawl worn on Shabbat and the
shofar sounded on Rosh Hashanah, for his political event. And I’m free to
say it’s beneath contempt,” Bill Kristol, the former editor of the Weekly
Standard, said in a tweet.
 Michael Flynn, who served as Trump’s first national security advisor for
just a few weeks before resigning in disgrace, and Jenna Ellis, an attorney
who worked to overturn the 2020 election results for Trump, appeared
alongside Mastriano at the event, according to the York Daily Record.

When I referenced Barletta’s prior Bannon skepticism [despite their current cordiality],
the correct cite showed him to have initially been dismissive before becoming supportive
["Is Barletta worried about Bannon’s ties to the so-called alt-right, the openly racist,
sexist, anti-Semitic branch of American conservativism? “I haven’t really looked at that.
I’m not. No’.”]. Overall, Barletta has been a good-guy [particularly on Illegals] and, thus,
I'd been surprised that he'd be wishy-washy about 2020 [to-date], even after I asked him
directly if he'd felt the election had been stolen [@ the PLC Friday-p.m. candidates'
reception]. Thus, it’s not surprising that he was endorsed by Congressman Ronny Jackson
[Former White House Physician and Senior Advisor to President Trump] who calls Barletta
“the only candidate who can unite conservatives and the Trump base.”

THIS is the pivotal question facing GOP primary voters who recognize “Jake the Snake”
characterizes the Harrisburg Swamp and that the others are regional candidates who
lack statewide appeal. Doug’s task is to show that there is minimal distance between
“conservatives” and “Trumpists.” Barletta will try to suggest Doug is a bit extreme.

His additional attribute (necessarily “along for the ride”) is his religiosity, which is linked
with his political postures. This mirrors my observation that Sen. Ted Cruz had a key-book
on his desk that I noticed when I visited him a half-decade ago to discuss Kurdistan/Iran;
subtitled as “A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in
Light of Scripture”), Wayne Grudem elucidates “Politics According to the Bible.”

GOP voters won’t care about what libs claim [e.g., Pa. voters decided. But Republicans
continue to mislead on the 2020 election and The ‘sore loser effect’: Rejecting election
results can destabilize democracy and drive terrorism and PA voters, candidates and
policy are still influenced by what happened on Jan. 6]. They know PA political activity is
now on the brink of political change and they will soon witness how, in Battleground PA,
Roger Stone feels America’s future requires dozens of State Legislature GOP primaries.
Looming among jockeying politicos faced with wide-open Senate/Governor races driving
voter interest is awareness that partisan stalemates in the statehouse sow uncertainty
and court battles could squeeze the primary election via extreme time pressures.

{Lt. Gov. candidates include Saccone [whom I met at the “Save the Nation” conference in
Newfoundland, PA], Coleman [about whom I know nothing] and Diamond [whom I met a
decade ago at the birth of the Tea Party Movement and whose unique queries to House
under-oath Hearings on Election Reform (that I analyzed) presaged his running as a
candidate who could amplify the deceit (that I synthesized)]. Others are also high-quality,
but my support [regardless of whether pundits view him/her as electorally preferable]
will indubitably stem from whomever Doug chooses [as meshing with his leadership].