Fetterman And The Guilty Hortons

Fetterman And The Guilty Hortons — When it was revealed that John Fetterman hired two killers for his campaign staff, he snapped back  saying Lee and Dennis Horton were wrongly convicted and that getting them sprung “was one of the proudest moments of my career and I’m honored to have them on this team.”

Fetterman is the Democrat nominee for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Pat Toomey. His Republican opponent is Dr. Mehmet Oz.

As lieutenant governor, Fetterman was instrumental in commuting the Hortons’ life sentences as he chairs the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons.

The Hortons were convicted along with Robert Leaf of killing Samuel Alemo during a holdup of Filito’s Bar at 5th Street and Hunting Park Avenue in Philadelphia.

Fetterman And The Guilty Hortons
Liar hires killers for campaign

Also shot were Luz Archella and her daughter Luz Martinez both of whom survived.

Fetterman says the Hortons merely were out for a drive when they saw Leaf and gave him a ride. They didn’t know anything about the robbery.

Um, we’d suggest you get out your hankies and weep for these poor boys who spent 27 years behind bars for just being Good Samaritans but, um, witnesses identified Dennis Horton as the rifle-toting shooter.

Fetterman is either a fool or a liar. Regardless, you don’t want him as governor.

Ann Coulter tells the Horton story with details here.

Thank you John Bahn

Fetterman And The Guilty Hortons

Environment Platform Includes Protecting Border

Environment Platform Includes Protecting Border

By Joe Guzzardi

The latest mid-term election polling shows that Republicans and Democrats are dead even. In January, the same polling firm Statista had the GOP ahead by four points. Other polls like 538.com indicate more or less the same outcome. But if voters have learned anything since the 2016 and 2020 elections, it would be to distrust polling firm projections.

Results from 2020 polls favored Democrats, with Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) as likely losers. But Collins, 6.5 points behind, or so said the pre-election pollsters, won by 8.6 points. The other five candidates that the prognosticators wrote off as doomed won handily.

Pollsters have an explanation to defend their theory that congressional Democrats might still retain the majority, despite record inflation, rising crime rates, a botched Afghanistan withdrawal, student debt forgiveness, billions of dollars squandered in support of what’s become an endless Russia-Ukraine war, and an open border. It is that the GOP has nominated poor candidates in key swing states. Among the races pollsters are tracking most closely are Blake Masters in Arizona vs. incumbent Mark Kelly, Herschel Walker in Georgia vs. incumbent Raphael Warnock, Adam Laxalt in Nevada vs. incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto, and Mehmet Oz vs. John Fetterman in Pennsylvania where incumbent Republican Pat Toomey is retiring.

Environment Platform Includes Protecting Border
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A state official who has no congressional voting record, Fetterman proudly notes that his wife’s family overstayed their visas at which time their immigration status converted to unlawfully present, a clue that he favors more immigration. Fetterman’s website says he supports a “humane” immigration system, a vapid remark which confirms that he endorses Biden’s status quo.

The GOP challengers, all within striking distance, may be getting short shrift from pollsters. The candidates were persuasive enough to capture primary nominations; they’re not too tongue-tied to debate. More important, going into the general election, the GOP has as much fodder – listed above – and primo debate material as any high-office challengers in history, thanks mostly to President Biden’s slipshod governance, and the incumbents’ whole-hearted endorsement of it.

On the key open borders issue, Masters, Walker and Laxalt have the benefit of launching an offensive against their opponents’ immigration voting records. Their rivals, Kelly, Warnock and Cortez Masto are, like Fetterman and Biden, all-in on open borders. A review of the incumbents’ immigration votes found that each has consistently voted against reducing amnesty fraud, against curbing illegal immigrants’ rewards, against ending unnecessary employment visas, against stricter border enforcement and against more rigorous interior enforcement.

Stumping on reducing immigration can be problematic since such a focused campaign would trigger untruthful but potentially damaging racist allegations. A winning campaign would include linking immigration to unsustainable population growth, an indisputable fact that the Census Bureau confirms. Census Bureau data predicts that by the mid-21st century the U.S. population will increase to more than 400 million from its current 333 million, a greater than 20 percent increase.

More than half of that growth will be attributable to immigration and births to immigrants. For comparison’s sake, the Center for Immigration Studies’ researchers, based entirely on the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements, found that in 2017 there were 35.8 million legal and illegal immigrants living in the U.S. who arrived from 1982 to 2017. Further, these immigrants had 16.9 million U.S.-born children and grandchildren. In total, immigration added 52.7 million people to the U.S. population between 1982 and 2017, accounting for a little over 56 percent of population growth during this 35-year time period.

For the nation’s population to increase by more than 65 million people, as the Census Bureau predicts, in less than 30 years, creates a grave danger that will exacerbate existing environmental problems like water shortages and land lost to urban sprawl.

Opinions about immigration and its effects often differ. But sentiments about the environmental future Americans want to ensure for their children and grandchildren are consistent. Americans want open spaces and nature’s bounty to remain for future generations to enjoy, a goal that ever-more immigration makes impossible. To win and to prove the pollsters wrong again, the GOP platform must emphasize immigration’s harmful, unwanted consequences of unchecked population growth and the environmental degradation that accompanies it.

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Joe Guzzardi is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist who writes about immigration and related social issues. Joe joined Progressives for Immigration Reform in 2018 as an analyst after a ten-year career directing media relations for Californians for Population Stabilization, where he also was a Senior Writing Fellow. A native Californian, Joe now lives in Pennsylvania. Contact him at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org.

Swarthmore Lawn Signs Against Mary Gay; David Galluch Explains Campaign

Swarthmore Lawn Signs Against Mary Gay; David Galluch Explains Campaign

By Bob Small

Republican candidate David Galluch has a daunting task in front of him. He’s seeking to unseat  incumbent Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon in Pennsylvania’s reconfigured 5th  Congressional District.

This district now consists of Delaware County and bits and pieces of Chester and Montgomery counties, with a slice of South Philly.

After graduating from Annapolis, Galluch was selected for for the Special Operations community known as the Navy EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), which is exactly what you think it is — IED removal (Improvised Explosive Device).

Galluch speaks of “establishing and expanding  apprenticeships,..””   In immigration, he states that “we can craft a better immigration system that prioritizes and preserves our  sovereignty, security and the rule of law, while remaining true to our core principles and [our] history as a welcoming nation.”

David Galluch, like many, bashes Philadelphia DA  Larry Krasner like a piñata. But, unlike most of the others, he has come up with a constructive suggestion of establishing mobile crime labs. He says that “by bringing a forensics team to a crime scene, evidence is processed more quickly”.

Swarthmore Lawn Signs Against Mary Gay; David Galluch Explains Campaign

Galluch has earned a Masters Degree in Development from Cambridge University in the UK, which has one of the best such programs in the world.

As to his personal life, he and his wife have two dogs, one of his favorite books is  Catch-22,  and he works out regularly. He says that one of his goals is “to  put my phone down and live with Caroline and the dogs for a bit each day”.

Now, once, back in the two thousands, Mary Gay and I ran together on the Green Party ticket. (She ran as a  Green/Republican.) We both lost, but I got to know her a bit, and we still see each other when  she’s not busy “congressing” (or whatever she does in DC). My sense is that she is doing her best,though she is a disciple  of Ed Rendell.

There’s an anti-Scanlon movement growing, even here in Swarthmore (see attached lawn signs), and it  may be time for someone new in Congress. Whether David Galluch is that person is for the voters to decide.

Swarthmore Lawn Signs Against Mary Gay; David Galluch Explains Campaign

Recently, I even saw Dave Galluch signs among Fetterman and Shapiro signs, but they were gone on my return.

By the way, in the historical trivia department, previous Fifth Congressional District representatives included  one Philip Swenk Markley (who served as both a Jackson-Democratic-Republican and as an anti-Jacksonian, circa 1823-1827), and he was followed by a string of Jacksonian representatives.

Swarthmore Lawn Signs Against Mary Gay; David Galluch Explains Campaign

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