Successful Insurgency In Pennsylvania House District 80
By Bob Small
The Pennsylvania 80th House District has been Republican since 1969. It encompasses Blair County — except Altoona and part of Huntingdon County. The Republican Primary is basically the general election.
On April 23, incumbent, Jim Gregory lost to Scott Barger 5,648 votes to 4,649.
It was basically a blow out.
A big issue was Gregory’s support of Mark Rozzi (D-126) as Speaker of the House when the Republicans had a temporary majority in January 2023.
Both Gregory and Rozzi are childhood sexual abuse survivors and were working on a”a constitutional amendment to relax the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse survivors.”
Barger who has degrees from both Grace College and Grace Theological Seminary served 15 years as a Pastor, then joined the family business WRTA – Altoona,PA, a news/talk radio station that also carries the Altoona Curve minor league team Altoona Curve.
Scott’s wife, Beth, is a public school teacher. They have five children.
On his campaign website, he lists five goals, including enacting a school report card and blockage of the Shapiro Energy Tax. He said “Our job as Representatives is to represent people from our district”.
He also received $15,000 from a PAC associated with State Senator Doug Mastriano (R-33)s.
Unless the Pennsylvania Alternative Parties (Constitution, Green, Libertarian, or Socialist Workers Party) or an Independent gains ballot status, Scott can waltz into office uncontested. This doesn’t speak well for our Pennsylvania Democracy.
Congress Shuns Passenger Safety in FAA Reauthorization
By Joe Guzzardi
The summer vacation travel schedule is just weeks away. Those who journey by air worry about the terrifying sequence of near-disasters that occurred during the past year, and are keeping their fingers crossed that their flights will take off and land without incident. Boeing has been at the forefront of quality concerns; after a six-week audit, the Federal Aviation Administration said that the agency found “multiple instances” of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies the aircraft manufacturer with fuselages, of failing to “comply with manufacturing quality control requirements.” As potential passengers look for ways to know what plane they’ll likely be on, airlines and booking sites offer alternatives for customers including omitting the troubled Boeing Max 9 from flight search results.The summer vacation travel schedule is just weeks away. Those who journey by air worry about the tThe summer vacation travel schedule is just weeks away. Those who journey by air worry about the terrifying sequence of near-disasters that occurred during the past year, and are keeping their fingers crossed that their flights will take off and land without incident. Boeing has been at the forefront of quality concerns; after a six-week audit, the Federal Aviation Administration said that the agency found “multiple instances” of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies the aircraft manufacturer with fuselages, of failing to “comply with manufacturing quality control requirements.” As potential passengers look for ways to know what plane they’ll likely be on, airlines and booking sites offer alternatives for customers including omitting the troubled Boeing Max 9 from flight search results.
While passengers worry that doors may blow out mid-air or tires might fall off during take-off, another grave but mostly unknown danger lurks. Unvetted illegal aliens are allowed on commercial flights, thanks to the Biden administration’s ongoing commitment to welcoming to America millions from around the world whose backgrounds and intentions are unknown. Currently, no U.S. citizens, lawful permanent resident immigrants, or legally present nonimmigrants may board an aircraft traveling to or within the United States without presenting a valid, government-issued photo ID or presenting one of numerous TSA-acceptable documents that will be closely scrutinized. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens and unvetted parolees can board aircraft for travel to or within the U. S. based solely on the biographic information they provided on the CBP-One app or verbally gave to the Border Patrol agents that processed them before releasing them into the interior. The name they provided could be fictional. Worse, the illegal aliens could have a criminal record and/or criminal intent.
This sequence of events regarding illegal aliens’ movements is, from beginning to end, illegal and unconstitutional. Border patrol agents should arrest, not release illegal aliens. The CBP-One app is an illegal scheme that the Biden administration cooked up to ease entry for inadmissible aliens at an official port of entry, and thereby make the masses accumulated at border less dramatic, and less politically damaging. The bogus app, not congressionally approved, eventually leads to parole and work permission. Biden has unconstitutionally abused the parole privilege, legally intended to be granted on a case-by-case basis, and not handed out en masse to thousands of illegal aliens. Through March 2024, 326,000 illegal aliens have arrived via air; the most adversely affected cities are Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and New York with respectively, 91,821, 60,461, and 14,827.
An opportunity to right Biden’s criminal wrongs regarding aliens’ air travel arrangements depends on Congress which has begun its deliberations on the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Congress can close the policy loophole that threatens public safety, allowing unvetted individuals with unverifiable identification to board aircraft traveling to or within the U.S. This is a clear and unacceptable public safety and national security risk. The FAA’s stated mission is “to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world.” On September 11, 2001, the U. S. learned the hard way that the nation must put primary emphasis on “safest” when it comes to air travel. As a direct result of 9/11, Congress passed the REAL ID Act in 2005, which requires states to fortify the security features of driver’s licenses and verify the citizenship or lawful immigration status of recipients of such licenses. Real ID was originally set to be enforced in 2008 but, because of congressional disinterest in enforcement, it has been delayed multiple times. The revised Real ID deadline for compliance with the identification requirements is 2025.
By allowing illegal aliens and parolees to board aircraft based only on the information they entered on the CBP-One app or that an overworked, dispirited Border Patrol agent filled in on Notice to Appear (NTA) or Notice to Report (NTR) forms, air carriers and the Department of Homeland Security are putting citizens or legally present immigrant passengers at risk. Such disinterest is especially troubling when FBI Director Christopher Wray has warned of an elevated threat from foreign terrorist organizations and admitted that record numbers of known terrorists have crossed the southern border. In FY 2023, agents apprehended 736 known or suspected terrorists at the Southwest border, the largest total in U.S. history.
The May 1oth deadline FAA reauthorization is at hand and legislators must move quickly to reach an accord on the 1,o68-page aviation bill. But seven last-minute proposed amendments threaten to derail what several senators are referring to as “must-pass” legislation. Some of the amendments included changes to credit card swipe fees, pilots ages, flights into and out of Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport. Congress should have included in the legislation to reauthorize the FAA Utah Senator Mike Lee’s S. 4051, the Verifying that all Aliens have Legitimate Identification Documents Act (the VALID Act). The VALID Act closes the dangerous loophole by prohibiting air carriers and DHS from accepting the CBP-One app, NTAs, or NTRs to board aircraft traveling to or within the United States. The simple result of passing legislation that includes VALID Act provisions is that every passenger on every flight operating in the U.S. will have presented verifiable photo identification prior to boarding. Without the VALID Act included in the reauthorization legislation, the FAA will not be able “to provide the safest…aerospace system in the world.” Introduced on March 22nd but, as of May 7th, the VALID Act has only ten co-sponsors, all Republicans. Travelers should be outraged that their security has been compromised so that illegal aliens can move about the country they don’t belong in with utmost ease, a disappointing revelation about how little either side of the aisle cares about citizens’ safety.
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org.
Congress Shuns Passenger Safety in FAA Reauthorization
Charlie and Sharon will describe the illegal alien crisis in Delaware County, Pa. and describe the harassment they have been receiving for speaking out.
James Roguski will discuss the WHO Pandemic Agreement in the first hour hour and he will be followed by Stephanie Borowicz of the Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus.
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Answer to yesterday‘s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Superman never made any money saving the world from Solomon Grundy. Crash Test Dummies
Sharon Devaney Bank Account Hacked — Charlie Alexander of Marple and Sharon Devaney passionately spoke about the illegal alien crisis in Delaware County, Pa. at the May 1 County Council meetingand a day later at a United4Delco event
Save 30 Percent Or More By Switching To Trump – It’s a little exaggeration but the point is perfectly made. The Consumer Price Index had the cost of goods and service up 17 percent under Resident Biden as of January.
Answer to yesterday‘s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. Thomas Jefferson
Divisive Elaine Paul Schaefer Of Delaware County Pa — Delaware County, Pa., Councilwoman Elaine Paul Schaefer left council’s May 1 meeting early to attend an event concerning antisemitism.
It was announced at the night’s beginning she would be leaving at 7:30, which is an hour-and-a-half after the meeting’s start.
When she arrived at her other event she reportedly told her audience: I’m very sad to say I’m late tonight because I was at a council meeting at which there was an angry mob of 150 people. And the hate speech we’re hearing now, which is probably the reason, which is directed at immigrants. It is really just characterizing our incredibly vibrant, wonderful immigrant community as just not human. It’s really hard to hear.
We actually like Elaine. We wouldn’t vote for her but we don’t think she is a bad person.
She is fibbing through her teeth, however.
She left the meeting five minutes before her announced departure time. This was four minutes before public comments.
Whatever the reason she was late, it was not due to an “angry mob.”
We strongly urge the councilwoman to realize that dishonesty — even thoughtless, unintended dishonesty — is the major cause of divisiveness.
We strongly also urge her to understand why the citizenry calls illegals “illegals.”
Illegals are those who enter America in violation of its laws.
Immigrants are not illegals. Immigrants come to the United States legally.
Refugees are not illegals. They enter the United States legally.
Joe Biden is reportedly bringing murderously antisemitic Hamas-supporting Palestinians from Gaza to the United States as refugees.
They would not be illegals.
They would be murderously antisemitic supporters of Hamas, it is true, but they wouldn’t be illegals.
Why Biden wants them here is a different subject. Perhaps the councilwoman should broach it with her group concerned about antisemitism.
Councilman Kevin Madden also left early, at 7:45, as had been announced at the meeting’s start. Perhaps he was not late to his other event and felt no need to concoct a phony excuse.
Divisive Elaine Paul Schaefer Of Delaware County Pa
