PA Republicans Are About to Win the POOREST District in PA

[wa3ra]

Holy Sh....nevermnd. Been there, done that. (ten years ago!)

[ArcticSplash]

Its Philly. I dont care......

You should care.

Upstaties hit the snooze button in the 2015 cycle and that's why there's only one Republican left on the SCOPA.


We are one lawsuit away from our state turning into the next Maryland. Those 3 Dems got in there thanks to prog activists in Philadelphia funding their tours upstate.

One of the three is Johnny Doc's own brother.


They'll strip your gun rights if they have the chance til you have nothing left but a pea shooter.

[ArcticSplash]

Seems sleazy.

Municipally-owned utility. All of its records are subject to subpoena. There's a way to get the last few bills w/o needing one. Saw zero water usage going on so that was enough to get a subpoena for all of them.

Before the court throws the records in the scanning machine the lawyers gather together in a room to run magic marker over PII like SSNs etc.

[Sparks]

Where do we go to donate?

[ArcticSplash]

Lucinda Little's campaign:

https://www.facebook.com/ThinkBigVoteLittle/

https://littleforoffice.com/


Right now we're doing this campaign off spare cash, not eating out, and low-limit credit cards, and Lucinda's living room is campaign HQ.

[stainless]

I helped. Thanks for your work and time updating this.

It is important for our State and we would be uninformed without your input.

[ArcticSplash]

I helped. Thanks for your work and time updating this.

It is important for our State and we would be uninformed without your input.

Thank you so much for helping! Every cent counts here... we're barebones and whiteknuckling it with the credit card with the copy machine and the printer

[ArcticSplash]

COMMONWEALTH COURT JUST RULED - NO DEMOCRAT WILL BE ON BALLOT

Because Ramirez' petition was set aside there was no valid ballot petition left for the Democratic Party to substitute a name. The normal provision for candidates who die before election doesn't fit here so they're out. They should have selected a candidate who actually lives in the district.


Given the date, there's not enough time for the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee to launch and fight an appeal of this to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.


As of right now there are 6 known write-in candidates, the strongest of which is the Green Party (Cheri Honkala). Little is the only one on the machine. Democrats now have 2 weeks to do a write-in campaign for their candidate, which they've never had to do before and it's very unlikely they'll surpass what Cheri's done so far in gathering committed write-ins.

Another major factor here is that Philadelphians tend to vote straight-ticket in general and special elections. The straight-ticket lights will be activated on the machine per DOS rules, meaning that any Democrat voter who appears and presses the straight ticket button will be voting for "REMOVED BY COURT ORDER" and thus be an invalid vote. If the total number of write-ins is higher than Lucinda's vote count then we'll be at the City Commissioners office reviewing the tapes from every machine and examining each write-in made.


We've hit the Democratic Party in Philly where it hurts. They had no idea we would challenge them on their blatant corruption like this.

[Sparks]

Donation made. Nice to see a Philadelphia Republican that might win.

[ArcticSplash]

The Democrat's lawyer told the Philadelphia Inquirer that they are going to SCOPA.

Even with only 1 Republican on this court, they're very constricted for a multitude of reasons, namely:


1) Green Party candidate Cheri Honkala was not allowed on the ballot for "filing one paper [with the Department of State] one day late". That case is also before SCOPA. If they let her on which is doubtful, her error is far less egregious than what the Democrats did.

2) Commonwealth Court ruling on removing Freddie Ramirez from the ballot was based on residency. In that order, his petition was "set aside". It means that ballot petition is a dead letter. The court would have to resurrect that ballot petition in order to meet the requirements under the PA Election Code and Freddie's candidacy is not material to the appeal because the Dems aren't appealing Freddie's candidacy.

3) This is a SPECIAL election, not a general election. Many prior rulings about substitutions simply do not apply to special elections. Special elections in and of themselves are already "less democratic" (small d) than a normal general election. There's no primary.

4) The Democratic City Committee had all the way through Feb 2 to remove Freddie and file a substitution. Judge Covey stated this clearly in her full opinion and that's not a disputed fact. The Dems should have reacted to a challenge on Freddie's residency by checking for themselves and withdrawing him to eliminate the risk. Instead in their arrogance they blazed ahead with a candidate who not only had multiple residences he admits to staying in well outside the district, he produced more residences on the witness stand in testimony that are not inside the district. The residency rule is in our state constitution. We get it that judges are only left with a very liberal interpretation of the words "domicile, residency, and home" but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ you could at least come up with a creative answer why you never use any water in your house for 2 years.



On the flip side, the Democrats are going to argue that "voters deserve a choice" and appeal to emotion and voter disenfranchisement because they aren't being allowed to pick another one of their nobodies.

I've already seen this race appear in DailyKos and what's sad in those write-ups is the only thing they care about is Democrat math. They try as hard as possible to gloss over the fact that the last two Dems were removed because they are felons and then put up a guy who won't live next to his fellow voters.


Voters have all the choice in the world. There is a button you press called WRITE-IN and you can write whatever you want in that machine.