PA's US Senate Seat Election 2022

[ROCK-IT3]

When is? When do we get to that? Is anyone other than me tired of learning nothing and always having our necks on the chopping block instead of quashing the threat? Why must it always be down to we have a 49% chance of losing versus 100% when we face the same enemy year after year? Is our side so stupid that we do absolutely nothing to improve?

We are nothing more than useful idiots to the GOP, same as low-intelligence voters for the Dems. They keep tossing up RINOs, and we keep saying, "Well, this is who we have to vote for. We don't have a choice." Well, I have a choice.

[Walleye Hunter]

I don't know Walleye, you maybe right. I have had a lot of shit happen in my life in the past two years, which has soured me to some degree. What has especially soured me is people telling me I am a liar, then posting no proof to back it up, and that if I don't think or act exactly as they think I should, I deserve to be motherfucked into tomorrow, as if I care what anyone says to me. If I cared about that, I would vote the way you think I should in the first place. I am not calling anyone here my enemy. You and others who think I have to vote the same way you vote are calling me and others your enemy, go ahead and deny it, it's plain to see. I am still a decent guy regardless of who I vote for, but you are willing to forget about that based on my vote. Who is the problem then?

Your vote is your vote and you can do anything you want with it. Imma just motherfuck you into tomorrow if you don't vote for The Lizard of Oz THEN bitch about what Lurch does. That's all. If you were to say that you don't like either of them but you like moose limbs the least so you're voting for Lurch, I would even respect that. At least you have a logical reason for it. I'm just trying to point out how voting but leaving that line blank, is an error.

[Walleye Hunter]

BTW, I have two friends who are registered 'I' and are bitching that the Lizard of Oz is like the only option now. They both got my thoughts on that.

[JAKIII]

BTW, I have two friends who are registered 'I' and are bitching that the Lizard of Oz is like the only option now. They both got my thoughts on that.

I'm registered "I" and will be your friend... if you cook me pancakes.

[ROCK-IT3]

Your vote is your vote and you can do anything you want with it. Imma just motherfuck you into tomorrow if you don't vote for The Lizard of Oz THEN bitch about what Lurch does. That's all. If you were to say that you don't like either of them but you like moose limbs the least so you're voting for Lurch, I would even respect that. At least you have a logical reason for it. I'm just trying to point out how voting but leaving that line blank, is an error.

Who ever said I was leaving the line blank? Not me.
I respect your choice to vote for OZ, and I NEVER suggested anything about the character of anyone who will vote for him. Prove otherwise. But several of you have denigrated the character of those of us who won't compromise that far, saying things like: we "used to be decent", and you know that's the truth.
So, if OZ wins, I will motherfuck you into tomorrow if you bitch about him, because you were told in advance what he would do. Is that fair, or does it make me not a decent guy?

[ROCK-IT3]

BTW, can anyone tell me what margin of an Oz loss will let us indecent people off the hook? How much does OZ have to lose by for us not to be considered guilty of voting for Lurch? 50 votes? 100?, 1,000?, 100,000? or what? or will it matter at all? OZ loses, and it's our fault?



I gots to know.

[TonyF]

This is not the time to try to punish the Republican establishment for shitty choices.

When is? When do we get to that? Is anyone other than me tired of learning nothing and always having our necks on the chopping block instead of quashing the threat? Why must it always be down to we have a 49% chance of losing versus 100% when we face the same enemy year after year? Is our side so stupid that we do absolutely nothing to improve?

I've stated it in this forum before that the primary is more important than the general election because the primary is when candidates are chosen.

From this source https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElectio...0-%20FINAL.pdf there were 3.450,289 registered republicans in PA.

From this source (I added them up) https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/ only 1,345,930 of the 3.450,289 registered republicans voted (for a senate candidate). That's a net negative of -2,104,359. There were 1,349,196 republican votes cast for governor so the number is about the same.

Well over two million republican voters didn't vote in the 2022 primary. That's 33% more than those that voted.

How can we possibly blame the establishment for winding up with OZ? How many of those 2+ million might have voted for Barnette had they voted? Sure, some of those votes would have gone to OZ and McCormick but until there is a better turnout among voters in the primary, blaming the establishment that an unfavorable candidate won and then not voting in the general election because my guy didn't win in the primary is missing the bigger problem of how to motivate people to vote in the primary.

The primary is where we are shooting ourselves in the foot.

It's a well known fact that the party establishment doesn't want good turnout in the primary. We punish the establishment by voting in the primary.

[Emptymag]

Thread seems to be doing well without MY input today...

[middlefinger]

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Dem Senate Candidate Voted To Free Convicted Murderer Who Killed 18-Year-Old for Heroin Money

John Fetterman is often the sole Pennsylvania Board of Pardons member to vote for freeing murderers

Pennsylvania lieutenant governor John Fetterman (D.) / Getty ImagesCollin Anderson and Chuck Ross • August 15, 2022 5:00 am
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Wayne Covington was sentenced to life in prison after he shot and killed an 18-year-old for money to buy heroin. Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman wants him to walk free.

In June 2021, Fetterman was the only member of the state's Board of Pardons—which he chairs as lieutenant governor—to vote to commute Covington's sentence, according to records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. In 1970, Covington admitted to shooting 18-year-old George Rudnycky to death while high, as Covington and an accomplice were robbing Rudnycky for drug money. Covington pleaded guilty to first-degree murder to avoid the death penalty and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Fetterman cast his vote over the pleas of Rudnycky’s family members, who opposed Covington's release at the killer’s commutation hearing.

One year after the controversial vote, Fetterman is placing his Board of Pardons record at the center of his campaign against Republican Mehmet Oz. His campaign site boasts that he "transformed" the lieutenant governor position "into a bully pulpit for criminal justice reform" and "led the fight to free the wrongfully convicted and give second chances to deserving longtime inmates." Fetterman, who has said he ran for lieutenant governor solely to lead the Board of Pardons, has specifically called to end life sentences for second-degree murderers who participated in a killing but did not "pull the trigger."

But in Covington's case, Fetterman took no issue with voting to release a triggerman who admitted to shooting his young victim—a vote that Pennsylvania attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro did not reciprocate. A review of Fetterman's tenure on the board, meanwhile, shows that the Democrat has voted to release an array of violent criminals jailed for their roles in brutal murders, a far cry from the "innocent" people Fetterman often says he works to release. Those votes—as well as Fetterman's unabashed support for George Soros-funded Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner—prompted a letter from 13 Pennsylvania sheriffs who said Fetterman’s crime policy positions "would add to already rising crime rates in Pennsylvania." Their criticism of Fetterman could plague the Democrat's campaign as Pennsylvanians deal with a record murder spike.

Fetterman's campaign did not return a request for comment. The Board of Pardons denied the Free Beacon’s public records request for a video or transcript of the June 2021 hearing, saying that records of the public event are "confidential." Fetterman's office, which issued the denial, did not respond to a request for comment.

Beyond his support for Covington's commutation, Fetterman has supported the release of violent criminals Denise Crump and Anthony Eberhardt, pardon board votes reviewed by the Free Beacon show. Crump received life in prison in the late 1980s after she and an accomplice killed a 46-year-old man to "steal his television set, which was then sold for $60 to buy cocaine," according to the Philadelphia Daily News. Eberhardt also participated in a robbery-murder, which led to the shooting death of a beer distributor.

Pennsylvania's Board of Pardons has faced high-profile recidivism issues in the past. In 1992, board members voted to commute the sentence of serial killer Reginald McFadden, who immediately went on a murdering spree, killing two and kidnapping and raping a third within three months of his release. After that ordeal, Pennsylvanians voted to raise the board's approval standard from a majority vote to a unanimous one, a move that caused life-sentence commutations to plummet.

Fetterman has called McFadden's actions "unthinkable." But the infamous murderer's post-release killing spree has not stopped the Democrat from backing an amendment to lower the board's vote threshold to 4-1. Since 2019, Fetterman has cast the sole vote to pardon or commute a sentence at least 27 times, pardon board records reviewed by the Free Beacon show.

In January, Fetterman appointed his campaign political director, Celeste Trusty, as secretary of the Board of Pardons. Trusty supports many of the same criminal justice reform policies as Fetterman, and has called to "disarm the police." She worked on Fetterman’s campaign through this January, according to Federal Election Commission records.

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/dem...-heroin-money/

[PickingPA]

Fetterman’s first campaign event since the stroke

He’s suddenly challenging Biden for the title of worst public speaker (not that he was good to begin with) as the brain and mouth seem to confuse each other


https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_pric...iatus-video%2F