Delco Court Gives Half-Win To Election Integrity Activists — A hearing this morning, Nov. 4, before Delaware County Common Pleas Court (Pa) Judge Spiros E. Angelos left complainants Leah Hoopes, Gregory Stenstrom and Nicole Missino with a half-win.
Maybe less than half as Judge Angelos dismissed their request for an emergency injunction to allow poll watchers greater access to the Wharf counting center in Chester.
Still, he allowed their complaint to remain standing and while he didn’t allow the witnesses prepared by the petitioners to testify or allow their evidence to presented, he let them give lengthy statements over two days along with detailed and persuasive answers to the rebuttals made by attorneys Manly Parks and Nick Centrella of Duane Morris law firm who represented the county election board.
Further, Parks conceded a major request by the plaintiffs that election day run-down sheets be posted for poll watches and allowed to be photographed, and that poll watchers should have by-right access to voting machine tapes.
Parks said this was already the law hence an injunction was unnecessary. The plaintiffs noted that this law was largely being ignored by judges of elections. Parks pledged to instantly react when made aware of such circumstances.
So, he is on record.
The plaintiffs also asked that the vDrives, which are USB drives for voting machines, be better secured as chain of custody issues were a big problem in the 2020 election.
Parks pledged that the vDrives will be transported in sealed and secure packages signed by the appropriate officials. He did not, however, concede to include the vDrive’s serial numbers as sought by Stenstrom.
Stenstrom — who along with Mrs. Hoopes, wrote The Parallel Election regarding what happened in Delaware County in 2020 –said only two or three people are required to steal an election and the officials in charge of oversight might not even be aware it’s happening.
A standing-room crowd of about 30 people packed Courtroom 10, today, with about 20 spending all day in the courthouse, yesterday.
The plaintiffs agreed Judge Angelos treated them fairly, which differed from their experiences before County Council and the Board of Elections.
Yesterday, Parks began by asking the case be dismissed as neither Mrs. Hoopes nor Stenstrom had standing to sue — the state Supreme Court ruled just Tuesday that only candidates and parties have such right — and pointed out significant problems with their paperwork.
The plaintiffs, neither of whom is an attorney, were representing themselves.
Judge Angelos agreed with Parks regarding the law but gave the pair leeway to fix things.
The deadline for relief is 5 p.m. today as Election Day is Tuesday.
Working throughout yesterday they found a candidate, Mrs. Missino, willing to join them and revised their complaint.
Few of the supporters and witnesses — one of whom came from Lancaster County — left them.
The Lancaster County witness was Mike Miller who notes that his county’s voting machines rejected thousands of ballots which had to be retranscribed by hand, and that his GOP primary challenge to Senate Caucus Leader Ryan Aument had even been left off of many.
She said that numerous residents of her district had expressed serious concerns during her door-to-doors. She said she wanted the evidence to be presented and, hopefully, rebutted.
Unfortunately, she didn’t get her wish.
Perhaps the most damning thing about the process was that the plaintiffs during their two years of struggle were rejected by most, frightened, local attorneys, and that an attempt was made to disbar the one they they did hire, Deborah Silver.
Ms. Silver was in the courtroom, yesterday, albeit as a supporter and not an attorney.
That there is a dearth of those versed in the law willing to take a case with political implications out of fear for career and comfort is an extremely concerning sign regarding the state of the Republic.
Even Jeffrey Dahmer had a lawyer.
Mrs. Hoopes said they will try and appeal the dismissal of the injunction in the few short hours left.
Delco Court Gives Half-Win To Election Integrity Activists
The Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania has 14 candidates running for State House seats. State House Candidates including Edward Clifford III in Delaware County.
Clifford is facing incumbent Democrat Greg Vitali and Republican Kimberly Razzano in the 166th District which is Haverford Township along with the along with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd wards in Marple, and the 1st and 3rd divisions of its 4th Ward. Vitali has held the seat since 1993.
Clifford is against Pennsylvania joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as it will “reward wealthy polluters.”
He advocates replacing taxes with GoFundMe.
“Taxpayers should not fund anything,” he says.
He says adults should be allowed to consume any drug they want.
“The racist war on drugs is a complete failure and disaster for us,” he says.
Clifford has a BA in business and finance from St. Joe’s University.
He has worked as a consultant and in related positions for seven different companies, most recently ION Trading. He is very involved with the Boy Scouts of America.
Path of true piety William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-4-22
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
George Washington
Path of true piety William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-4-22
Everything Isn’t Enough For Immigration Expansionists
By Joe Guzzardi
Imagine if White House officials, the Chamber of Commerce, the establishment media, corporate America and ethnic identity advocacy groups agreed to an immigration roundtable. Then, further imagine that the moderator asked three questions.
The first question: “Given that fiscal year 2022 ended with a record 2.4 million migrant encounters exclusive of 599,000 known ‘gotaways,’ but including 238,000 in September alone, how many more migrants should be admitted before enforcement begins?”
Second: “Assuming Congress passes amnesty for every unlawfully present alien, would you agree to stop or at least pause in your support for unlimited immigration?” Finally: “Research indicates that loose borders harm mostly black Americans in terms of depressed wages and lost job opportunities. Immigration also provides higher incomes and profits for businesses while redistributing wealth from the native poor to the native rich. Do those findings cause you to question your immigration advocacy?”
A decade ago, advocacy groups agreed to participate in such a discussion; the hypothetical others weren’t present. No matter how the moderator pressed for answers to questions about how many immigrants were too many, no specific response was forthcoming.
The moderator prefaced his questions by acknowledging that most legal and illegal immigrants are hard-working individuals who want better lives for their families and that, with the exception of having broken civil law by being in the U.S. without permission, most aliens are law abiding.
For their part, the pro-immigration debaters insisted that family reunification remain unchanged and that employment-based immigration continue indefinitely. And while vaguely concurring that some numerical limits should be set, none of the participants was willing to set a fixed total. Either speaking on behalf of their group or expressing a personal opinion, the participants refused to discuss, even hypothetically, what the maximum number of immigrants should be or what might represent permissible enforcement regulations. Advocates repeatedly stressed what they perceived as immigration law’s “inhumanity,” but at the same time wouldn’t specifically define why open borders should be perceived as humane. In summary, the open borders coalition demanded unlimited immigration, but rejected border or interior enforcement as quid pro quos.
Ten years later, the Biden administration has rewarded immigration advocates with a clearcut victory. Their immigration wish list, identified a decade ago, has come true beyond their wildest imaginations. While Congress hasn’t passed an amnesty per se, interior enforcement is gutted, making removal unlikely for most illegal immigrants. Moreover, many of the millions of migrants have been granted parole, a misused and abused immigration status that includes work authorization. Not precisely an employment-based visa, parole nevertheless effectively provides the same affirmative immigration benefit – legal access to U.S. jobs.
Going beyond complying with advocates’ wish list, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has diluted the citizenship test. Long used as the basic guideline for identifying which among the recently arrived lawful permanent residents qualify for coveted naturalization, the standards have been dramatically loosened. USCIS director Ur M. Jaddou said that, under certain circumstances, the exam can be bypassed. This represents how the agency “is removing barriers to naturalization…” Jaddou’s reasoning: the public is “better served” by “eliminating questions and language barriers that no longer have practical utility and were redundant.”
At first glance, the Biden administration through its various immigration violations, which some dismiss as merely loosening inconvenient laws, is an overt attempt to swell the Democratic voter base, especially among Hispanics. But with porous borders having pushed Hispanic voters away, the inescapable conclusion is that the administration’s primary goal is to cancel, by any and all possible means, sovereign America.
Imagine if White House officials, the Chamber of Commerce, the establishment media, corporate America and ethnic identity advocacy groups agreed to an immigration roundtable. Then, further imagine that the moderator asked three questions.
The first question: “Given that fiscal year 2022 ended with a record 2.4 million migrant encounters exclusive of 599,000 known ‘gotaways,’ but including 238,000 in September alone, how many more migrants should be admitted before enforcement begins?”
Second: “Assuming Congress passes amnesty for every unlawfully present alien, would you agree to stop or at least pause in your support for unlimited immigration?” Finally: “Research indicates that loose borders harm mostly black Americans in terms of depressed wages and lost job opportunities. Immigration also provides higher incomes and profits for businesses while redistributing wealth from the native poor to the native rich. Do those findings cause you to question your immigration advocacy?”
A decade ago, advocacy groups agreed to participate in such a discussion; the hypothetical others weren’t present. No matter how the moderator pressed for answers to questions about how many immigrants were too many, no specific response was forthcoming.
The moderator prefaced his questions by acknowledging that most legal and illegal immigrants are hard-working individuals who want better lives for their families and that, with the exception of having broken civil law by being in the U.S. without permission, most aliens are law abiding.
For their part, the pro-immigration debaters insisted that family reunification remain unchanged and that employment-based immigration continue indefinitely. And while vaguely concurring that some numerical limits should be set, none of the participants was willing to set a fixed total. Either speaking on behalf of their group or expressing a personal opinion, the participants refused to discuss, even hypothetically, what the maximum number of immigrants should be or what might represent permissible enforcement regulations. Advocates repeatedly stressed what they perceived as immigration law’s “inhumanity,” but at the same time wouldn’t specifically define why open borders should be perceived as humane. In summary, the open borders coalition demanded unlimited immigration, but rejected border or interior enforcement as quid pro quos.
Ten years later, the Biden administration has rewarded immigration advocates with a clearcut victory. Their immigration wish list, identified a decade ago, has come true beyond their wildest imaginations. While Congress hasn’t passed an amnesty per se, interior enforcement is gutted, making removal unlikely for most illegal immigrants. Moreover, many of the millions of migrants have been granted parole, a misused and abused immigration status that includes work authorization. Not precisely an employment-based visa, parole nevertheless effectively provides the same affirmative immigration benefit – legal access to U.S. jobs.
Going beyond complying with advocates’ wish list, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has diluted the citizenship test. Long used as the basic guideline for identifying which among the recently arrived lawful permanent residents qualify for coveted naturalization, the standards have been dramatically loosened. USCIS director Ur M. Jaddou said that, under certain circumstances, the exam can be bypassed. This represents how the agency “is removing barriers to naturalization…” Jaddou’s reasoning: the public is “better served” by “eliminating questions and language barriers that no longer have practical utility and were redundant.”
At first glance, the Biden administration through its various immigration violations, which some dismiss as merely loosening inconvenient laws, is an overt attempt to swell the Democratic voter base, especially among Hispanics. But with porous borders having pushed Hispanic voters away, the inescapable conclusion is that the administration’s primary goal is to cancel, by any and all possible means, sovereign America.
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.
Update On Krasner Impeachment From Carmela Ciliberti — Chesco attorney Carmela Ciliberti’s latest podcast gives an update on looming impeachment of Philadelphia’s out-of-control district attorney, Larry Krasner. Murders in the city are up 59 percent since won election. He blames everybody else.
Carmela does expect the state legislature to successfully impeach Krasner this session but does feel the effort is waking up many.
Shapiro Using AG Phone Number On Political Ads — A friend from Montgomery County sent us screenshots of some of the email advertisements she has received from the Josh Shapiro gubernatorial campaign.
The ads include the official phone number of Pennsylvania’s attorney general, the office Shapiro now holds.
This is illegal.
Does he not think he will be held to account?
Our friend, by the way, is registered independent not Republican.
Here is a video and some screenshots. Call 717-787-3391 and see where it takes you.
Escaped from Romania William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-2-22
Cn cm u qumny iz aohjiqxyl ni zcly un nby guh-ch-nby-giih.
Dibh Kocaa
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
Nadia Comaneci
Escaped from Romania William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-2-22
Pennsylvania Ballots In Undated Envelopes To Be Uncounted Says Supreme Court –The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just (Nov. 1) ordered all county boards of elections to refrain from counting any absentee and mail-in ballots received for the November 8, 2022 general election that are contained in undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes.
The court was split 3-3 with Kevin Dougherty, Sallie Updyke Mundy and Kevin Brobson saying not counting the ballots did not violate federal law and Chief Justice Debra Todd, Christine Donohue and David Wecht saying it did.
There is a vacancy due to the Sept. 30 death of Chief Justice Max Baer.
Brobson and Ms. Mundy are the only justices elected as Republicans.
Ballots contained in undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes were ordered to be segregated and preserved.
The suit was filed by the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania along with citizens David Ball, James D. Bee, Jesse D. Daniel, Gwendolyn Mae Deluca, Ross M. Farber, Lynn Marie Kalcevic, Vallerie Siciliano-Biancaniello, and S. Michael Streib.
The court dismissed the citizens for lack of standing.
After the most recent redistricting our 165th Pa house District went from being represented by Leanne Kruger to Jennifer O’Mara, basically an exchange of one Democrat for another. Then a blank GOP line was seized by Nichole Missino.
Then retired Swarthmore scientist Bill Foster decided that he would run and realizing the other two party lines were taken over, decided to create his own party.
He gathered enough signatures to acquire ballot status, and thus we have three Candidates running for one seat. But then the weekly Swarthmorean came out on Thursday. The letter from former Swarthmore Borough Council member Lauren McKinney began “Will someone explain why we need an independent “middle of the road” candidate to run against incumbent Jenn O’Mara for the 165th District?”
The party system attacks our ability to choose a candidate that will represent most of us, he says. He feels the major parties “value campaign donation and election victories more than our welfare”.
Bill promises that he will “work for legislation that requires committees to create their agendas in public well before their meetings”.
The Swarthmore Borough Councol and Committees now have their agendas available online at least 24 hours before the meeting. He is also a proponent of ranked-choice voting.
He believes “Harrisburg has put so much work onto school boards and their central office administrators that they have become overwhelmed, unresponsive, and inaccessible”.
“We can fix county systems so child abuse information is shared and children are not left in danger,” he says.
Part of his extensive resume includes a stint with the Peace Corps, five years as a volunteer with the Council Rock School Board (Pa’s 12th largest). Other volunteer stints include working with Swarthmore Borough, Swarthmore Boy Scouts, and the Delaware County Citizen Corps, and others.
To return to the beginning, why do we need yet another term of Jenn O’Mara as opposed to one of the other candidates, who have never had the chance to change things.
