Can Frank Agovino Turn Swarthmore Red? — Frank Agovino has been elected at the new Delco GOP chairman replacing the retired Tom McGarrigle and promising a host of changes.
“I want to get the party on better footing, and that means having a 49-municipality strategy that actively invites more people into the process from across the county,” he said.
He also intends to “establish a committee on mail in voting” and wants to “improve our performance amongst voters who now prefer to vote early and remotely”.
“We need to do a better job of serving as a watchdog and holding the current l(democratic) leadership accountable,” he said. It is also our duty to effectively articulate an alternative vision.”
Frank Agovino
This was an election where only one county Republican candidate State Rep Craig Williams (D-160) won. Incumbent Chris Quinn (168th) was an incumbent who was upset.
Agovino was the GOP candidate for the 26th District senate seat in November losing to incumbent Timothy Kearney
Agovino’s New Avenue Foundation started the Media Bean Company which is still around, albeit in Newtown Square, still making great breakfasts. He has been involved with a number of boards, including the Delaware County Intermediate Unit, the Manufacturers Alliance of Delaware and Chester County, and the YMCA of Eastern Delaware County, etc.
He received a BS in Marketing from St. Joe’s and an MS in Organizational Leadership from Cabrini. He lives in Springfield with his wife and daughter,.
One borough in Delco where Republicans have not been on the ballot recently, is Swarthmore. Maybe Frank Agovino can revitalize the Swarthmore GOP which, sadly does not have an electronic presence.
This is an article I wrote a while ago. Nothing has changed.
Delco Dems Ruin Prison And Lose Lives — Wally Nunn, who chaired Delaware County Council when the local Republicans had brains and some spine, has written the below piece regarding the tragedy — as in deaths and suffering — that has occurred since the now-Democrat controlled council deprivatized the county prison in April.
The piece initially appeared on the website of Broad + Liberty, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit news and editorial outlet dedicated to freedom of thought and giving voice to issues and ideas that have been shut out of our discourse for too long, that Wally chairs.
Yes Wally, we didn’t get your permission to republish so if you want us to take it down and just use a link, let us know.
By Wally Nunn
Where were the members of the Delaware County Coalition for Prison Reform Wednesday evening when two African American correctional officers appeared before Delaware County Council?
“We are… in fear of our safety on this job,” said Albert Johnson about the conditions at George W. Hill Correctional Facility, as quoted in the Daily Times. “As of yesterday, two inmates stabbed. There have been more deaths in this prison since the county has come on. We are fearful for our lives… We get feces, we get urine thrown on us on a daily basis.”
I ask where they were because they and their “woke” politicians never missed an opportunity to condemn, mock, insult or otherwise demean anyone who supported the private operation of the prison. One might think their concern was not the lives and conditions of the correction officers or the inmates, but rather the broader proposition that private enterprise is evil.
READ MORE — Wally Nunn: Delco taxpayers can’t afford the county’s spending binge
The County took back control of the prison last April. They did this despite clear evidence that the prison was one of the safest in Pennsylvania according to the Pa. Department of Corrections. The healthcare provided for the inmates met the most stringent requirements of outside accrediting groups and the state. None of that meant anything to the advocates and their allies. I include in their allies the Philadelphia Inquirer, which in article after article by reporter Vinny Vella ignored proof that the prison was being operated safely and cost effectively.
Unfortunately, as in many progressive programs, it is not the elite of Swarthmore or Radnor that will bear the burden: instead, the Correction Officers and the inmates will suffer. As Todd Shepherd pointed out in a recent article, since the County has taken over, the prison has had more suicides in eight months than the private contractor averaged per year after more than twenty years of operating the prison. Since the County has taken over the prison, the first inmate-on-inmate murder in the prison’s history took place.
It is not only the guards and prisoners that are suffering — another group of people will also be hit. This group, as usual, is the taxpayers.
The collective silence on the increased violence at the prison and the costs that will be borne by the working and retired citizens of Delco exposes the elites for what they are: hypocrites.
As soon as the County runs out of Covid money, Delaware County residents will be asked to pay more in taxes for this “noble experiment.” The County’s consultant estimated that if the county had 1,450 prisoners, the cost to the county would be $43.1 million. The county is averaging 1,300 prisoners and is spending $55 million this year. The 2023 proposed budget is $53 million. Of course, the budget may be busted as the continued violence and suicides will bring a tsunami of lawsuits. As we know from the experience of prisons around the area, these suits can reach into the millions.
Who gets billed for the difference? The taxpayer, with a real estate tax increase of five percent to ten percent. In 2019 — the last year the Republicans ran the County — the prison averaged almost 1,800 prisoners a day and the cost was less than $50 million.
Just a bit off subject: in 2019, the prison had close to 1,800 prisoners on an average day; today, the number is closer to 1,300. Have you considered whether the reduction of 500 inmates has anything to do with the drastic increase in violent crime in the County? It’s worth thinking about.
The advocates, the “woke” politicians, the elites and the Inquirer, despite empirical evidence that they were wrong, got their way. Now, the rest of us must suffer the consequences. Their collective silence on the increased violence at the prison and the costs that will be borne by the working and retired citizens of Delco exposes the elites for what they are: hypocrites.
Greg And Leah Give Update To PA Real News — The most recent episode of Pa Real News (Nov. 29) featured authors and Delco election integrity activists Leah Hoopes and Greg Stenstrom. Hosts were Kim Kennedy and Pastor Steve Gruen. Bill Lawrence of this site was a contributor.
Leah notes that updates of their activity can be found at Patriot.Online. Join today.
ZenCity Comes To Delco — Delaware County Council, last night, Dec. 7, entered a one-year, $199,000 contract with ZenCity Technologies as expected.
The artificial intelligence-based software to be implemented is claimed to give local governments true knowledge about what their communities want rather than having to consider points made by people speaking at their meetings.
Questions for council: “Why do you trust Big Tech?” “Isn’t this a little Orwellian?” “Why can’t you just get out and talk to your neighbors?” “Or people at flea markets?” “Why don’t you find it troubling to discount minority views?” “Isn’t that what this software is supposed to do?” “Discount minority viewpoints?”
Delco’s worth fighting for
Many times it is but one person speaking in public that reveals a problem hitherto unknown by most.
And if one person is being treated unjustly that is grounds for action.
We suspect ZenCity isn’t meant to inform our officials but to provide an excuse to ignore the public.
Here are The Flying Burrito Brothers singing about ZenCity. The spelled it differently though.
Supreme Court Dockets Delco Vote Fraud Case — The United States Supreme Court has docketed the case of Greg Stenstrom and Leah Hoopes regarding vote fraud in Delaware County, Pa. from the 2020 election.
Mrs. Pruett left the case when Common Pleas Court dismissed it on Jan. 13, 2021 and sanctioned Greg and Leah. This included fining them $50,000 and trying to get their lawyer, Deborah Silver, disbarred.
Leah Hoopes, Emerald Robinson and Greg Stenstrom
The Delco GOP was excised from the case by the Commonwealth Court for not responding to any filing after the initial complaint.
Regarding the sanctions — which can be fairly called lawfare — noted attorney Bruce Castor successfully defended Greg, Leah and Ms. Silver in Commonwealth Court, which dismissed the fines and sanctions.
Is the spoliation of election materials and evidence, required to be maintained by federal and state law, by election officials to perfect massive election fraud, evidence of said fraud by itself, and/or sufficient to infer adverse verdict?
Do duly appointed, certified poll watchers, who have taken an oath to fulfill their lawful duties as intervenors for both the candidates they represent, and the citizenry, have standing to petition the Courts on their own behalf to remedy grievous violations of election law, election fraud, and associated civil law?
Does the Court of first remedy in considering alleged grievous election and civil violations (in this case, the Common Pleas Court of Delaware County, Pennsylvania), have a duty to have an evidentiary hearing, and be presented evidence of allegations of massive election fraud that could change the outcome of an election, before ruling there isn’t a “scintilla of evidence” and otherwise ruling on facts not in evidence?
Does immediate notification of spoliation and destruction of election materials required to be maintained by federal and state law for 22 months (or as long as litigative controversy is pending), that proves massive election fraud that could change the outcome of an election, require the Court of first remedy to intervene to secure said evidence, as the lawful arbiter to preserve the integrity of the election system?
Are lawyers and “esquires” a special class that can unilaterally decide the outcome of litigative controversy without transparency, input, acknowledgement, or permission of petitioners, plaintiffs, and defendants and the citizenry, without public hearing, transcript or accountability?
Should both candidates for election represented by counsel, and Pro Se citizen litigants, be afforded the latitude and grace of the Supreme Court of the United States, as final arbiters of the Republic, to curate technically deficient but meritorious cases regarding the most sacred right of voting by the citizenry of the United States in their selection of their elected representatives, given the Court has repeatedly done so for other cases?
Is it lawful for public officials to intimidate, harass, and demand civil and criminal sanctions, and against lawful intervenors, candidates, citizens, and their attorneys for having the temerity to challenge grievous election law violations that would change the outcome of elections?
Should petitioners lawsuit(s), who hold hard physical evidence, sworn affidavits, whistleblower videos and audio admissions of election officials committing criminal election fraud, documentation, unreconciled returns, and a literal mountain of evidence that approximately 327,000 votes were fraudulently certified in Delaware County, PA, in a presidential election that Joseph Biden allegedly “won” by approximately 80,000 votes, and undercard statewide elections of lesser margins, be considered for public remediation by the United States Supreme Court, or returned to the Court of first remedy (Common Pleas Court of Delaware County, PA)?
Is it lawful for the beneficiary(ies) of alleged election fraud to unilaterally investigate and adjudicate said fraud (i.eThe Pennsylvania Attorney General, Josh Shapiro and District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer).
Greg and Leah were interviewed by Emerald Robinson, yesterday, Dec. 6 regarding this. Check it out here.
Delco Scrapping Voting Precincts; Getting Spooky Tracking Software — It was worth staying to the end of today’s (Dec. 6) nearly four-hour long budget hearing.
We learned that Delaware County Pa. has a plan to consolidate voting precincts and to contract for a year with ZenCity Technologies for $199,000.
The points were brought up by Joy Schwartz of Upper Darby who implored the county to do neither.
ZenCity uses artificial intelligence and is kind of spooky.
The county says the software service supports “community outreach engagement and data collection to support economic policy development and data-based decision-making.”
The real reason, however, appears to be to give council an excuse to ignore activist who show up at the public meetings. ZenCity’s website actually calls this a feature.
“Today, we know that most input comes from the same group of residents, and that reaching more voices and make meaning out of it all requires enormous effort and constant maintenance,” it says.
Here’s a better idea: Mingle with your constituents. That way you’ll know if the the squeaky wheels really need greasing.
It is likely that ZenCity will allow council to do what it wants regardless of what the citizens wish. How is the public going to know, after all, what the man behind the curtain really said?
Seriously, after last week’s Twitter revelations can one really trust a tech firm?
Delco Election Concerns Aired In 9-Hour Hearing Before Judge Dozor — Update: Judge Dozor has ruled that certification can proceed. Delaware County Common Pleas Court Judge Barry Dozor presided over a remarkable nine-hour hearing, yesterday, Nov. 21, concerning the request by Leah Hoopes, Gregory Stenstrom and Nicole Missino that certification of the Pennsylvania county’s certification of votes from the Nov. 8 election be postponed until Nov. 28 so a hearing could be held at which evidence could be presented regarding election irregularities.
Well, the hearing was basically held but limited to specific allegations made in the plaintiffs filing, namely that 2,778 records of requests for mail-in ballots were deleted by the county; at least 194 voter registration records of individuals who voted were deleted; a partisan third-party was allowed to control and tabulate mail-in ballots; and the chain of custody was adulterated by detouring the election-night journey of the county’s physical ballots and v-drives for six hours into a closed building, where poll watchers were prohibited from entering, before continuing the delivery to the centralized counting center at the Wharf Building in Chester.
These claims were generally, and reasonably, explained by the County during the course of the day but other troubling points were brought up.
Judge Barry Dozor, the patience of a saint
Judge Dozor, who deserves great praise, is expected to rule today.
Mrs. Hoopes and Stenstrom were certified poll watchers while Mrs. Missino was the Republican candidate for the 165th District in the State House.
They represented themselves. Attorneys are notably reluctant to take vote fraud cases in Delco for fear of repercussions. Deborah Silver, a previous attorney for Mrs. Hoopes and Stenstrom, faced an attempt to disbar her which reportedly cost her $20,000 to beat.
The plaintiffs lack of experience led them to make mistakes. They were unable to call expert witnesses including data expert Robert Martini, who was unable to present a report which we are including at the end of this article. Martini, as a fact witness, testified, however, that the machine tape in the 1st Precinct of Marple’s 7th Ward was missing a hashcode.
This is a legitimate concern. If it happened there it likely happened elsewhere and reveals a security issue.
Mrs. Missino was unable to get into the record the voters who told her that their votes were never tallied.
Joan Weber, an entrepreneur who had been director of finance for Conde Nast, was unable to testify regarding the strange shrinkage in the tally for mail-in ballot requests she recorded from the state’s OpenDataPa website.
Julie Yu, whose report of election day ballots being taken unexpectedly from the Springfield Library dropbox to the county-owned “Flagship Building” at 2 W Baltimore Pike, in Media, might have made the most significant claim. The ballots had been expected to go to the counting center at the Wharf in Chester. The change caused suspicion regarding the the chain of custody.
Rally at the courthouse before the hearing
James Allen, the county director of election operations, testified the change was due to Act 88 that was passed by the state legislature in July.
To get funding provided by the act, the county had to agree to, among other things, that it post on its publicly accessible Internet website an unofficial number of absentee ballots and mail-in ballots received for the election by 12:01 a.m.
This required election night procedures for the collection of dropbox ballots to be changed for logistical reasons, Allen said.
In previous elections — and in the weeks before election night — dropbox ballots were and are collected by county employees using vans and taken directly to the counting center. The new constraints led to the election night dropboxes being collected by two-person teams using private cars, with at least one member of the team being a county employee, according to Allen. Rather than being taken directly to Chester these ballots were first gathered at the Flagship Building.
Mrs. Hoopes, in her cross-examination, got Allen to admit that the change was never made public and that the county guidelines actually called for the ballots to go to Rose Tree Park on election night.
Things like this are what causes suspicions to arise.
Laureen Hagan, chief clerk of the Bureau of Elections, testified that the county never deletes requests for mail-in ballots. It remained unanswered as to why 2,778 such requests appear to have been deleted.
Stenstrom testified that he saw a cart of between 20,000 and 30,000 pre-canvassed ballots without pedigree at the Wharf on Election Night and that at 8:05 p.m., about 25,000 votes almost immediately appeared with lopsided margin for Democrats.
The logic and accuracy testing for the scanning machines was a big issue throughout the day with attorneys Nick Centrella, representing the Election Board, and William Martin, representing the County, desperately trying to keep it out.
Mrs. Hoopes got it on record that Delco was not following state protocols in its testing. She also got it on record that the county followed directives from their information technology guy rather than what was prescribed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Gavin Lawn, an observer at the counting center, testified he was inspired to become involved after receiving 13 mail-in ballots at his home in 2020. He said during his scheduled shift on Nov. 9, the door to the counting room was locked despite their being people inside.
Stenstrom said that he’d like the Judge to let him compare the ballot images from the scanner with the Department of State database to ease any concerns about the election being rigged. He said this could be done quickly and easily using off-the-shelf software without affecting the integrity of the machine.
There is no reason not to let citizens be allowed this access.
County solicitor Martin implied the plaintiffs and their supporters were merely sore losers motivated entirely by a dislike for mail-in ballots rather than legitimate concerns about the election.
About 40 people packed Courtroom 7 with another reported 80 in an overflow courtroom. About 20 stayed the whole nine hours.
Again kudos to Judge Dozor for the effort to address concerns.
And kudos to Stenstrom, Mrs. Hoopes, and Mrs. Missino and their supporters who — unlike Martin — were not paid for the nine hours.
And there remains, Mr. Martin, no reason — or state mandate — for the county to have unsupervised dropboxes accessible 24/7. Poorly monitored screens of images from solar-powered cameras do not cut it for supervision and the only reasons not restrict the boxes to government buildings during business hours are reasons that raise suspicions.
Here is the report Robert Mancini prepared regarding voting issues in Delaware County:
Delco Election Abnormalities Being Discussed Now — Greg Stenstrom and Leah Hoopes are on Rumble right now discussing the certification of ballots in Delaware County, Pa.
The interviewer are Nick Moseder and The Gateway Pundit’s Brian Lupo
Leah, Greg and Nicole Missino are asking for emergency motion for a temporary restraining order to delay the certifying of Delaware County, Pa. results.
A hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m., Monday, Nov. 21, in Delaware County Common Pleas Court.
The plaintiffs are saying, among other things, is that physical ballots and v-drives were reportedly taken to a closed building without observers present and kept there for six hours before being taken to the counting center. This would shatter the chain of custody along with breaking the law that the ballots go directly to the counting center.
Delco GOP Chair Blames Trump, LOLs Keep Coming — Outgoing Delaware County (Pa) Chair Tom McGarrigle blamed his party’s poor showing on Donald Trump in an interview with Channel 10.
“It’s time for the Republican Party to move beyond Donald Trump,” McGarrigle said. “. . . Donald Trump was elected in 2016 and in Delaware County we started losing elections you know in 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21.”
And you started losing because you began putting up crap candidates, laughing at the wishes of your constituents and ignoring the county’s changing demographics.
A lot of those Blacks moving into Upper Darby think more like Trump voters than Radnorites. Where was the outreach?
Look in the mirror, man
It’s called lazy, Tom. And stupid.
You didn’t need to get them all to make a difference.
And why the silence on the very real concerns about vote fraud in Delco?
You issued a release on Oct. 31, 2020 that at least two duly elected Judges of Election found their voter books had been given to others by the County Election Board and the Election Board couldn’t say who. It’s a rather serious violation, you would think. Good for you for pointing it out. We were kind of expecting a little bit more though. The matter sort of disappeared. You gonna blame Trump for that?
Delco has become a national scandal with regard to elections. It’s the subject of YouTube videos and best-selling books. We get why you might not want to sign onto the claims completely but there’s nothing wrong with asking questions and expressing warranted skepticism at the county’s lame counter-claims.
You can rip Trump but not Jack Stollsteimer? No wonder why the Democrats like you.
We see Channel 10 did not call you chairman or boss but chair. As in something you sit on.
McGarrigle is stepping down Nov. 29 and an election is scheduled that day to replace him. We hear Dave White is the guy tapped. We don’t expect much to change.
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
