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Pro Se Guidebook Counters Failing Bar Association — Greg Stenstrom, who has had remarkable success in representing himself in Pennsylvania’s courts, has published a manual for those seeking to go it alone without a lawyer.
Many citizens are finding that attorneys approved of by the Bar refuse to take politically charged cases or merely go through the motions.
The book is I Stand on My Briefs, Pro Se Legal Warfare and can be found on Amazon.
Six Candidates for Pennsylvania’s 91st
By Bob Small
Adams County, best-known for the Civil war turning point battle of Gettysburg, is the site of a less bloody but bruising primary battle going on for Pennsylvania’s 91st House seat.
On the Republican side, Dan Moul has served as the 91st House member since 2006. Since there is not a mandatory retirement age for members of the Pennsylvania Legislature, he can continue until he is defeated or decides to retire.
Linsay Krug, is a Conewago Valley School Board member along with being a member of the Adams County Technical Institute’s Joint Operating Committee. She said her top priorities are “eliminating property taxes, protecting children from exploitation and trafficking, and holding politicians in both parties accountable. “
On her website, she lists links addressing her plans and states that “I believe that every voice must count and every citizen must be heard.” She has children, but that’s all even AI can find out.
Nick Lovell priorities, include property tax reform. He is president of the Littletown School Area School District Board of School Directors.
On his campaign website, he mentions a twelve year limit for State Legislators.
Lovell states he’s a Christian, though, as with the previous GOP Candidate, a spouse remains unmentioned.
He says “If data centers can be located in places where they are not a detriment to the surrounding area or the community, and where there is local support, then they can be appropriate. “
Meanwhile, the three Democrats running for the 91st are Tony Nunez-Guzman, Kathleen Pratt, and Darian Sundberg
For further information about these three, see 91st Democratic candidates center of forum | Local News and Three Democrats outline visions in 91st District forum
The Battle To Replace Tom Jones
By Bob Small
Besides Tom Jones, the Welsh Singer, the Literary character, and the Brookhaven diner (great breakfasts!), there is this other Pennsylvania Tom Jones. He was the Rep of the PA 98th House District, but he is resigning that post to run for the Pa 36th Senate district.
The 98th now covers Lancaster and Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 98 Lebanon Counties.
Though Nicky Woods is the endorsed GOP candidate, Danielle Lindemuth has remained in the race. Both, incidentally, are from the Mount Joy area. She is married with twins. Nicky has an accounting degree from Bloomsburg. She is owner of Bark Park and works as the Lancaster County Clerk of Courts.
Previously, she spent a quarter century as a police officer for the city of Lancaster (1998-2007) and The Northwest Regional Police (2009-2023).
Nicky Woods She is staunchly pro-life. She also said,“I support the people of Israel and their right to security, while also recognizing that no government is above scrutiny. “ There are a number of other strong opinions in this profile.
Danielle Lindemuth spent two years at Tennessee Temple University, now Carolina University. Her husband, Stephen, is a pastor and they have one child. She has worked as an HR Director and an office administrator.
She did not respond to the inquiries, but in Lancaster Online, she said” I work well with others from all walks of life, even when my beliefs or customs may differ, because I respect the freedoms we all enjoy as Americans.”
Meanwhile, the Democratic Candidate, Hugh Darlington, Meet Hugh is a board-certified master arborist who has worked for Longwood Gardens, among others. He’s a Navy vet who studied at Elizabeth College and Penn State.
See also Pennsylvania State Representative District 98
Interesting Lanco GOP Primary But Not A Crazy Train
By Bob Small
Among the GOP contested primaries here are some of special interest.
Seeking to replace Bryan Cutler as state representative for the 100th District are Dave Nissley and Kelly Osborne. There is no official Candidate listed on the Democratic side, so this is probably the real general election.
Cutler has represented the conservative Lancaster County district for about 20 years.
The Lanco nominating convention on Feb. 17 went eight rounds without a clear winner.
Cutler stepped into endorse Ms. Osborne.
Ms. Osborne is a retired state trooper who has served on the Lampeter-Strasberg School Board. She is not the daughter of the late Ozzie.
She boasts about never having voted for a tax increase, and believes sex-at-birth should be the standard for school sports competition.
Dave Nissley was born in Gap and raised in Paradise. He mentions that he grew up the Amish Mennonite Church as one of seven children. He married his wife, Lillian, in 1992. Their four adult children are Brittany, Brooke, Megan, and Josiah. He and his wife have operated Vintage Landscaping since 1992, along with other ventures.
His issues include the elimination of the property tax, preservation of Lancaster County farms and he support of the Second Amendment. See his website for information.
Nissley states that “church, state, and family influence each other in a just society”, but that they must remain separate institutions. He also mentions his previous experience as a Pastor.
See also Kelly Osborne (Pennsylvania)
Sean And Leah To Be United4Delco Speakers — Citizen activists Leah Hoopes and Sean Connolly are among the speakers at United4Delco’s May 7 awareness event at the Phoenix Bar and Grill, 4936 Pennell Road, Aston, Pa. 19014.
Pennsylvania Tyrant and abortion fanatic Josh Shapiro is certainly going to be a topic for both.
Sean and Leah have each faced serious persecution from the Pennsylvania’s powers-that-be.
The event starts at 6 p.m. Participants are expected to pay at least $15 in food or drink.
Jesse James Runs Again
By Bob Small
The GOP primary race n Pennsylvania’s 17th Congressional District are Sheriff Tony Guy vs Jesse James Vodvarka.
Sounds like an old-west election but it’s actually in Allegheny County.
The 17th Congressional District was redrawn by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Since 2023, the representative has been Democrat Chris Deluzio.
Previous representatives have been Allen E. Ertel and Connor Lamb.
The redrawn disrict tilts Democrat.
Deluzio participated in a video urging “American Service people not to follow illegal orders.”
Sheriff Guy is a long-time Trump supporter. He was a State Trooper from 1984 to 2010 and has been Beaver County sheriff since 2016.
Guy has been involved in controversies.
Jesse Vodvarkas is head of the Vodvarkas Springs Company. See the voter guide for information.
Vodvarka is a second-generation gadfly. His father, Joseph, has run at least five times between 2010 and 2020 for offices and collected almost 20 percent of the vote in 2012.
Meanwhile in the Philly 3rd Congressional District 17 Dems and 2 GOP have been challenged down to four Dems and zero GOP!
In too many of the congressional primaries races, there is a distinct lack of choice.
See also Beaver County Sheriff Tony Guy Launches Campaign For …
Yet Another Secondary Primary Choice
By Bob Small
Yes, there is a Doug Mastriano write-in Campaign for the May 19 Pennsylvania Primary. No, he did not start it.
Ernie Springer of Lancaster and Joshua Day (Clinton County) hatched a write-in campaign with it’s requisite website (see below). Mastriano denies involvement with the website, but would accept the nomination.
if he somehow won.
Stacy Garrity, who’s on the ballot, was endorsed by the State Party back in September, which some consider as a decision to prevent Mastriano from attaining ballot status.
Note: He lost his the 2022 gubernatorial effort by 15 percentage points and many consider him as too MAGA to win a statewide election in Pennsylvania.
Mastriano announced his withdrawal from a second run at Shapiro in January.
But he then downplayed Garrity’s chances, “claiming the “only way” for her to win would be if he were her lieutenant governor running mate.”
Downplaying the early endorsement, the website made the point that “The people decide the nominee, not the establishment, “and that he “won that year’s primary with nearly 45 percent of the vote. “ Among his stands are being against Covid mandates and against biological males in female sports. See the websites for a full list.
In a recent article , Mastriano rails against “ Pride festivals that close Lincoln Square, rainbow flags across storefronts and the growing prominence of activist messaging”. There goes the Log Cabin Republican vote,
As a recovering Green Party member, (Co-Chair of Delco Greens), we always argued against write-in campaigns for any office above, Judge of Elections. Generally, these write-in campaigns used up time, money, and energy with, usually, a negative result. In this case, it can only hurt Garrity.
If Mastriano did, somehow win, Shapiro would have a second term, no question.
Though we agree with parts of Mastriano’s program, we, and I suspect most of Pennsylvania, would rather have a Governor Garrity then another four years of “Prince Joshua”. A second term could lead to Presidential consideration which, to paraphrase a local sign, “ The Democrats are doing the best they can…..and that’s truly frightening”.
The Write-in Campaigners are going door-to-door in various towns and cities, though none have been sighted in Swarthmore.
What All Can Hear Right Now.
By Joe Mirarchi,The Soul of America, LLC
TheSOA.ORG
Thank-you Your Excellency, Pope Leo XIV, for your recent clarifying words that call out the Devil’s influence on mass-media and America.
No debate needed.
And thank you President Trump for using patience, restraint, and as little military force as necessary to stop the Devil in Iran—just like Jesus did when deciding to flip tables as he called out the selfish and sinful trade allowed in front of the Almighty’s Jewish Temple 1,993 years ago during the first Easter of 33 A.D.
May God always Bless America and the world;
May both be made Great Again as part of the Almighty’s Plan.
And now—in the 1987 thoughts of “The Most Trusted Man in America”, Walter Cronkite, and Broadway’s Anne Phillips—we must always remember wherever there is America there is the Almighty’s American institution, a.k.a., Irving Berlin, and Miss America.
(Click & Hear).
Jackie Robinson Day Mask Disregard For Blacks
By Joe Guzzardi
Every April 15 since 2004, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day. Robinson, the first black player to appear in a big-league game, debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15. In a stupefying display of hypocrisy, baseball officials play up JRD shamelessly even as they have actively worked to displace black Americans from baseball.
The most obvious and most meaningful way to honor Robinson’s legacy is not to assign every player Jackie’s old number 42, the current practice and an insult to the great Dodger, but to expand African Americans’ MLB presence. A bench warming Taiwanese national has no business wearing #42. Former Minnesota Twins outfielder Torii Hunter told USA Today, “This is supposed to be an honor, and just a handful of guys wearing the number. Now you’ve got entire teams doing it. I think we’re killing the meaning. It should be special wearing Jackie’s number, not just because it looks cool.”
Hall of Fame pitcher C. C. Sabathia echoed Hunter’s sentiment. “It kind of waters it down. I could see the Dodgers since that was his team, but not everyone else.” Another Hall of Fame great, Ken Griffey, opined “I didn’t know so many guys planned to wear the number. I sure wasn’t expecting whole teams to wear it,” As the years passed, JRD expanded to include coaches, managers and umpires who donned #42. Just to be sure fans didn’t miss the hype or the opportunity to purchase special Robinson related memorabilia, when teams opened on the road, JRD celebrations took place on days later than April 15
While Commissioners Rob Manfred and his predecessor Bud Selig bemoaned blacks’ shortage on the diamond, the truth is that they are omnipresent—Caribbean blacks, that is. The Society for American Baseball Research, SABR, published its study titled “Baseball Demographics, 1947-2016” which detailed the active players ethnicity by percentage of Americans, blacks, Latinos, and Asians. SABR’s findings: The percentage of African Americans grew steadily from Jackie Robinson’s debut in 1947 until the early 1970s at which point it plateaued at around 16% to 19% for a quarter-century (1972-1996). Since then, the black share has plummeted to less than half that amount, 6.7%. Using the same quarter of a century time period, Latino participation spiked from 0.7% to 27%.
Repeating and to make my point crystal clear, MLB has consciously displaced or blocked potential American players. This is an inarguable fact. All MLB teams have multi-million-dollar Dominican Republic training facilities that cater to the prospects’ needs, not only on the field but also academically. Each year, 450-500 Caribbean-born players sign professional contracts and take advantage of training camp coaching, practice fields, gym, cafeteria and a dorm. Enrollment in a Dominican camp does not guarantee a ticket north but it gets him a step closer than the U.S. inner city kid who has nothing comparable where he can play baseball all day long. More importantly, MLB hasn’t shown the least interest in building similar stateside facilities to develop American kids.
Here’s a story that reflects how baseball’s process works today. At the end of the 2025 season, the Pittsburgh Pirates one-time MVP and American black Andrew McCutchen, age 39, announced that he hoped to end his productive career with the Buccos—.272, 2,270 hits, 333 HRs, and 1,156 RBI. McCutchen is a border-line HOF inductee who is popular with writers, an edge that might land him in Cooperstown. The Pirates released McCutchen and he signed a $1.5 million minor league contract with the Texas Rangers. To replace McCutchen as DH, the Pirates signed Dominican veteran Marcell Ozuna, 35, to a one-year $12 million guaranteed contract. Normally, a general manager would say that he’s cutting a player to save payroll or to bring up someone younger. But in the McCutchen/Ozuna case, the GM dumped a fan favorite and paid $10 million extra to do it. Through April 15, Ozuna is hitting .118 while McCutchen, with limited game time, is hitting .222.
The point is that McCutchen is the most popular Pirates since Bill Mazeroski and possibly since Honus Wagner. He is beloved in the black community, especially among youths. No one in Pittsburgh cares about a journeyman Dominican playing out his baseball string.
Chances are that despite that JRD hoopla, few players could answer the most fundamental questions about Robinson’s personal or professional life. That’s a pity. All the teams travel to New York to play either the Yankees or the Mets. Show of hands, please. How many players have taken the time to visit the Jackie Robinson Museum in Manhattan? They have free time in the morning and early afternoon before the evening game when they could learn about the great Robinson’s life, a more meaningful experience than mindlessly putting on a #42 uniform.
I’m not going too far out on a limb when I answer my own question. Of the 780 players on current 26-man rosters, I guesstimate that fewer than 1% have stepped inside the Jackie Robinson Museum.
Joe Guzzardi is a nationally syndicated columnist whose opinions have been published for more than 30 years. Contact him at guzzjoe@yahoo.com
Vanessa Broussard Addresses GOP Support For Illegals — Journalist Vanessa Broussard, who hosts the “My Mornings with Vanessa”, which airs weekdays at 9 a.m. on LindellTV, was the guest on the April 16 RedAmericaFirst podcast.
Here, Vanessa answers a question from Sharon Devaney regarding the hidden support so many Republican politicians offer illegal aliens.