GOP Spent More On Flowers Than Voter Files — Jennifer Van Laar revealed on RedState.com that the Democrat National Committee spent $156,900, 327.28 between Oct. 20, 2022 and Nov. 30, 2023 while the Republican National Committee spent 128,735,489.96.
Fine.
It’s not that big a difference.
Maybe the RNC spent smarter.
Well, no. That’s where it’s not so fine.
The Rs spent $1.078 million on management consulting vs $114,000 to the Ds; $116,341.27 on media booking consultants compared to nothing for the Ds; $263,127.25 on limos compared to $7k for the Ds; and, wait for it, $70,328 for floral arrangements compared to $795 for the Ds.
The Ds, on the other hand, spent $235,865.88 on voter file maintenance compared to $39,233.5 for the Rs; and $1,676,923.29 for “get out the vote” texting compared to $86,019 for the Rs.
They also gave $23,835,437 to state parties compared to $13,800,200 for the Rs.
Yes, the Republicans spent more on floral arrangements than on voter file maintenace.
Ronna McDaniel has got to go. If she won’t resign as national GOP chairwoman, she should be coerced to quit. They can give her some flowers and a ride in a limo on the way out.
Donna Ellingsen Also In Delegate Race — We just heard from good friend Donna Ellingsen that she is also running for delegate for the Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania’s 6th Congressional District.
Top three vote-getters attend.
Donna won in 2020 — as did Bunny Welsh and Deborah Abel, who are also running this year — but was unable to attend due to Covid restrictions.
Also running this year is Brian Yanoviak, who is fighting for election transparency and was the 2023 GOP candidate for Chesco Recorder of Deeds.
There may be other candidates.
The election matters as the elector must be expected to stay true to the people’s choice when casting the vote for the nomination especially if it goes beyond a second round.
We are confident that the four mentioned will stay true.
AG And Congressional Candidates Attend Chesco Petition Party — Bunny Welsh hosted a meet-and-greet petition-signing party at her Chadds Ford home, last night, Jan. 31 with appearances by Republican-endorsed Attorney General candidate Dave Sunday and 6th District congressional candidate Neil Young.
The impressions both men made were great.
Sunday is the York County district attorney who refused then Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s demand to prosecute businesses that ignored the state- mandate to close during Covid.
He noted that the drug crisis is the worst in memory and blamed it on fentanyl. He said the open border allows the cartels to push it through almost at will. Sunday said that a young person was far, far, far more likely to have survived temporary stupidity with the drugs of decades past than today with fentanyl.
Regarding criminal justice, he said punishment is necessary but mercy must be included. Sunday said that only 8 percent of convicts return to prison who find work upon release. About half of those that don’t end up back behind bars.
Sunday has developed a successful job program with York County manufacturers — including Harley-Davidson — which provide decent paying jobs for former inmates.
Former Delco DA Kat Copeland has dropped out of the AG race and has endorsed Sunday. State Rep. Craig Williams, however, is still reportedly circulating petitions.
Sunday is a veteran of the US Navy.
Neil Young is a teacher who poked fun at his famous name. His issues included education and the border.
Yes, he can unseat the incumbent Democrat. The 6th District is Chester County with a portion of Berks County.
The primary election is April 23.
With Pennsylvania Attorney General Candidate Dave Sunday are Bunny Welsh, Brian Yanoviak and Debbie Abel who are running to be delegates for the Republican National Convention.
Neil Young
AG And Congressional Candidates Attend Chesco Petition Party
Paperboy Love Prince is running a quixotic race for president. He is the founder of Our Food ❤️ (@ourfoodnyc), a food aid service in New York City.
Our Food has distributed over $4 million worth of free food across the five boroughs he claims.
The rapper was also a main part in “launching and filling over 50 community fridges in NYC”, and establishing Tiny Houses NYC.
He got20 percent of the vote in New York’s 7th District as 2020 congressional candidate. It’s an incredible total for an independent. He has also run for New York mayor.
RollingStonefeatured him concerning the mayoral race:
His plans include “The Utopia Plan includes a guaranteed income for all in the form of a monthly cash or cryptocurrency payment of $2,000: Love Centers where New Yorkers can go to make friends, receive relationship and mental health counseling, childcare and job training”, transforming the NYPD into a love team, and other plans.
Like with many futuristic proposals, not everything will be successful, especially when completed by government but still…
In a Guardian article Paperboy Prince, the pro-love presidential candidate he said “I’m fighting for centering this country around love, putting it first, being anti-war, and pro-love, and creating love centers around the country,”
He previously organized regular shows called “Hip Hop Yoga Live”, while an undergrad at the University of Maryland, the concept being “a rap show at Moses’ house.” To find his music, see MUSIC VIDEOS BY PAPERBOY PRINCE OF THE SUBURBS
Mark Houck Winning Committee Votes — Mark Houck won the 7th and 10th districts yesterday, Jan. 29, in the battle for GOP endorsement for Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District.
The primary election is April 23.
The district is Bucks County along with eastern Montgomery County.
Incumbent Uniparty Republican Brian Fitzpatrick has held office since 2017.
In previous campaign challenges, Fitzpatrick has practically swept the endorsement races.
Houck won the 7th district 9 to 6 and the 10th district 7 to 2. He lost the 8th district 11 to 10 and the 11th district 20 to 4.
Again, though, the long-time incumbent should be overwhelmingly winning these races.
Houck Explains Candidacy At Bucks Meet And Greet — Congressional candidate Mark Houck explained why he was running to a dozen persons at a meet-and-greet petition party at the Doylestown home of Dawn Bancroft.
Houck is seeking to replace incumbent Brian Fritzpatrick as the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District. The district is Bucks County and part of eastern Montgomery County.
Lawfare is the use of the legal system against political opponents while letting supporters break the law at will. Examples would be 22-year sentences for Jan. 6 protestors while dropping all charges from the far more destructive attacks on the White House and its surroundings in the summer of 2020.
Or giving the guy who nearly killed Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) just 30 days albeit that was later extended to seven months with six months home detention.
Or what happened to Houck.
Houck had long worked as a sidewalk councilor outside the Planned Parenthood Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center in Philadelphia and had always taken pains to follow federal and local laws staying 50 feet from the entrance doors. In October 2021, anti-life activist Bruce Love approached Houck’s 12-year-old son and shouted obscenities at him. Houck pushed him away. Love reported an assault to police. Local authorities felt the complaint was spurious and took no action.
Yes, even District Attorney Larry Krasner declined to press charges.
So the Biden “Justice” Department got involved and charged him with violating the FACE Act — a federal law that makes it a crime to injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone providing abortion services.
Houck’s attorney asked for a time and place for Houck to surrender himself.
What happened next was something one would think could never happen in America.
At about 6:30 a.m., Sept. 23, 2022, FBI agents in helmets, body armor and carrying assault rifles descended on the Houck family’s rural Kintnersville home. There was loud banging on the front door and the bell ringing insistently. Houck asked who it was. FBI came the answer and Houck was ordered to open up. He could not see who they were, it should be noted.
Wonder if our brilliant feds considered how criminals can use this ploy for a home invasion. It would certainly make it less likely for a thug to have to face a homeowner with a gun.
Anyway, Houck told him he had seven babies in the house which might have been a bit of a fib as his kids were past the infant stage. It calmed down the lawmen, though, and he let them in.
His wife, Ryan-Marie, at this point was on the scene. The feds were pointing their guns at Houck and the children. Ryan-Marie demanded to see a warrant. The feds told her they didn’t need one. Houck who was in a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops asked if he could put on some clothes.
The request was refused. Houck was handcuffed in front of his kids and hauled away.
Houck said he was shackled with a belly belt and chained to a table for six hours before being released on his own recognizance.
He expected to be offered a plea deal. His attorneys, however, told them that was unlikely as the feds win 98 precent of their trials. It’s the accused that asks for the plea bargain, his attorneys said.
Houck was looking at an 11 year sentence plus fines.
Houck declined to seek a deal. As trial date approached, however, the feds shockingly offered one calling for no prison time or fines. His attorneys urged Houck to accept but he refused.
They said to talk to his wife and he agreed.
Ryan-Marie said he could take the deal but if he did he couldn’t come back.
They prayed about it. Taking the deal would set a precedent that would weaken free speech for all Americans, they realized.
Houck was going to trial.
The jury was picked. Many, if not most, had been supportive in some way of Planned Parenthood.
The trial ended Jan. 30, 2023. The jury had deliberated for but an hour before declaring not guilty.
It’s a time of miracles.
Houck was then approached by parties asking him to take on Fitzpatrick who votes with the Democrats 70 percent of the time.
He prayed about it and decided to.
Believe it or not, he’s getting support from Bucks GOP committee people. Fitzpatrick is still getting most of it but he shouldn’t be cocky.
Houck’s second issue is immigration. He said Fitzpatrick had ignored it until just a few weeks ago when Speaker Mike Johnson convinced him to visit Eagle Pass, Texas to see the crisis for himself.
Houck says that 10 improvised explosive devices have been found near the border. What about the ones that haven’t been found?
Democratic presidential candidate Jason Palmer is a proponent of “conscious capitalism”, whose tenets are higher purpose, stakeholder orientation, leadership and conscious culture.
The proponents of this philosophy believe in “elevating humanity through their efforts”, unlike regular capitalism which just believes in the elevation of one’s bank account.
What he calls “Palmer’s Pillars” are Conscious Capitalism, People First, The New Talent Economy and Modernizing the US Government. Under each are numerous subsections. One example found under Measure the government like a business says
This campaign and its team find it astonishing that our federal government does not track its finances according to GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). We don’t even have a national Balance Sheet. Basic advances in modern accounting should be implemented so that we can compare investments to expenses and get much, much better at how we spend taxpayer money.”
Under section 6, entitled Liberation we have
“If we want to build a bright future we must acknowledge the darkness in our past”.
Under People First in the immigration subsection says “This will require a complete rewrite of our nation’s immigration laws to be more like the laws of Australia and Canada. “
He states that he believes capitalism is the world’s best economic system”.
He is a proponent of the Right to Start movement which “is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that fights to expand entrepreneurial opportunity for all”.
There are more interesting ideas than we have room for here.
Joseph Michael Palmer is a 52-year old living in Baltimore. His resume includes stints at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Kaplan Education, Microsoft, and New Markets Venture Partners. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Virginia. At last count, he was on the ballot in six states.
Liz Piazza Seeks Pa 165th Seat — Liz Piazza, the Republican seeking to unseat Democrat incumbent Jen O’Mara in the 165th District Pennsylvania House, was introduced, last night, Jan. 25, at the monthly meeting of the Springfield Republican Party.
She is a grandmother and small businesswoman who has had a long-stint in Delaware County government.
She will be a big improvement.
Especially concerning legislation relating to crime and safety, which gets us to the next item.
Township Commissioner Jeff Rudolph says Springfield has been experiencing an inordinate amount of car break-ins. The perpetrators are being arrested and they are found to be residents of New York and northern New Jersey.
Rudolph said they are illegal immigrants who have been recruited by a criminal organization.
He says the operation has one person going through unlocked cars and leaving valuables at the curb to be picked up by a partner.
He says locking the car doors at night is a strong deterrant.
GOP Chairman Mike Puppio said the almost 70-year-old township building on Powell Road will soon be renovated. He said there is no need to replace the functional building although the police department is expected to get an expansion.
Liz Piazza with Bill Adolph who represented the 165th District for 28 years before stepping down in 2016
Jeff DeWit In Heap Big Trouble — Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit has been caught on tape bribing Kari Lake to drop out of his state’s U.S. Senate race.
Ms. Lake, who had Arizona’s governorship stolen from her in 2022, was told by DeWit that powerful interests “from back east” were going to practically give her the world if she quit.
She turned it down.
“They are going to try to have me murdered,” she laughed.
“They say the cartels are operating in 50 states, right now,” DeWitt responded.
Ms. Lake asked who was behind the request.
“Forget the who,” said DeWit. “Let me tell you about the what.”
“It’s not about control,” DeWit said. “It’s about being on the team.”
He was sounding like the politico/corporate villain from a cheesy movie.
Ms. Lake asked what they wanted and DeWit said they wanted her to stay out for two years.
They’d give her whatever corporate job she wanted in return. Maybe even as a “talking head” said DeWit.
Ms. Lake then said this was not about her but about defeating The Donald.
DeWit said it was about what makes the most money for the guys offering the bribe.
Ms. Lake again made it clear she wasn’t interested.
“Just to say, is there a number?” DeWit asked.
“Ten million, 20 million, 30 million, a billion, no,” said Ms. Lake. “This is not about money, this is about our country.”
DeWit wasn’t finished though.
“What I can do is this,” he said. “I can give you an incredible opportunity to have a bigger voice to fight for stuff than you currently do.”
Ms. Lake said she didn’t want to deal with people like this.
“I would be absolutely immoral if I did that,” she said. “That’s immoral, I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror if I did that,” she said.
“It’s very powerful people,” said DeWit.
Ms. Lake challenged DeWit to come to the light and to go public with this crowd was doing.
“No, no, no,” he said. “I turn my key in my car and ‘boom'”
He asked Ms. Lake to give him a counter offer.
“I can’t be bought,” she said.
Unlike DeWit, apparently.
DeWit was the chief operating officer of Trump’s Arizona campaign in 2016 and 2020, and the campaign’s chief financial officer in 2016.
2020 Vote Fraud Now Issue In Pennsylvania Attorney General Race — State Rep. Craig Williams has made the 2020 Election an issue in this year’s Pennsylvania Attorney General race.
Williams, of Glen Mills, Delaware County, represents the 160th District, and is a former federal prosecutor.
He is running to be the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania’s A.G. against ex-Delaware County D.A. Kat Copeland and York County District Attorney Dave Sunday. The primary election is April 23.
Ms. Copeland had served in the Delaware County district attorney’s office before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 2011.
She was appointed Delaware County District Attorney in 2018 to fill the remainder of Jack Whelan’s term after he was elected judge. She lost the 2019 election to Jack Stollsteimer and returned to her federal job. The guy in charge was now Bill McSwain. She became chief of the Criminal Division.
Williams X-posted a challenge to her, Saturday, Jan. 20, regarding an allegation her ex-boss made that then U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr squashed an investigation into vote fraud in the 2020 election, which would have been on Ms. Copeland’s watch.
This is the post:
@McSwainPA said he had evidence of election fraud that DOJ shut down. AG Bill Barr said that was not true. The President called McSwain a coward. Kat Copeland was Criminal Chief under McSwain, responsible for prosecuting election fraud. She owes us the truth.
Is Craig hoping to put Kat on the spot? Is this just a gambit to either make her look like a conspiracy nut or to drive a rift between her and McSwain?
Ms. Copeland should chime in, regardless. Huge numbers of Americans think our election system has become rigged and the numbers are growing.
And with reason.
University of Michigan professor and well-regarded cyber-security expert J. Alex Halderman, just this Friday, demonstrated to U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg in Atlanta the ease at which Dominion voting machines could be hacked and tallies changed.
And if Craig and Kat can be persuaded to recognize that distrust in our elections is becoming a serious matter, maybe they can find time to ask why Delaware County is fighting so hard to keep its correspondence with ballot-printer Fort Orange Press a secret.
Maybe it’s just petty bureaucrats trying to show they are big deals. We certainly hope that all that it is.
