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Election Review - DV
Election Review - DV
Perhaps seemingly upstaged by the PA-GOP Senatorial Race (due to Trump’s Oz-support),
the gubernatorial contest has led to spending that tops $12.6M; it’s possible to follow the
millions. Mastriano, who holds a slim lead, released a nine-point plan detailing what he’d
do during first 100 days as governor; his platform entails reversing COVID-19 mandates,
eliminating mail-in ballots and implementing voter ID, slashing the state bureaucracy,
banning critical race theory in schools, and cutting taxes. Meanwhile, Dems filed court
challenges seeking to have Mastriano (and Perry) removed from the primary ballot due
inter alia to Mastriano’s having organized a J-6 trip to the Capitol; the Bucks County
Courier Times “advised” Mastriano could benefit from election denial; this is c/w efforts
against others including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Madison Cawthorn. The four
frontrunners will debate TONIGHT @ 8 p.m., to minimize the effect of money.
An essay [High Stakes in Pennsylvania’s Primary Races] by the son of a former governor
(David Thornburgh) merits vetting because it captures the “establishment” position of the
“uniparty” mindset that created the Harrisburg/D.C. swamps [“A recent Emerson College
poll confirmed the parties’ problems. The most anti-establishment candidates – Oz and
Fetterman in the Senate primaries, and Mastriano in the GOP gubernatorial primary – all
led the poll.”]. His solution is open primaries, replacing party unity with abject mayhem;
voters could pick an affiliation when voting, instead of choosing one only a month prior.
[Rush Limbaugh satirized this phenomenon when advocating Republicans implement
“Operation Chaos” to “help” Hillary against Obama.] It’s also annoying that he failed to
cite Barnette, who is close in the polls with McCormick/Oz. Note that he doesn’t cite
politicians’ policies, instead lionizing Philly’s extremely liberal “Committee of Seventy.”