Election Coming And Crickets From Delco GOP — The inimitable Brian Cates pointed out in this post that we are not allowed to see county election records.
“They’re guarded,” he said. “. . . if you press the issue with open records requests, you end up in long, protracted court fights just to SEE what are supposedly ‘public records’.”
He said those who are “really obstinate about making them follow federal election law” may force county officials to destroy federal election records.
This is exactly what happened in Delaware County, Pa., he says.
Here we are with 55 days until the Nov. 4 election and what we’ve heard from the Delco GOP is crickets.
Most of the county doesn’t even know there is a pretty important election. Being contested are two county council seats and several county line offices; Commons Pleas Court seats; municipal and school board races; and seats on the state Commonwealth and Superior courts.
These races are far more important than most citizens realize.
And the Delco GOP is silent except for some lame, disorganized social media stuff.
What happened to Meaghan Wagner’s pledge to — figuratively — knee her opponent incumbent, Vincent A. Rongione, “in the groin” in the county register of wills race?
Ms. Wagner, an Upper Darby councilwoman, knows Rongione from his stint as the township’s chief administrative officer. He was kicked out after the township’s bank accounts had millions less than expected.
Incompetence?
Or worse?
Regardless, Rongione was “punished up” by the Democrats to fill the Register of Wills spot left vacant when Rachel Ezzell Berry was elected to Common Pleas Court.
So where is the ball-busting, Meg? Memes of Vince getting it between the legs would be as entertaining as a midget Elvis.
More so, actually.
We like GOP Chairman Frank Agovino but we can’t say Frank is doing a bang-up job.
Consider Cates’ claim.
The Delco Dems are absolutely hiding election records.
We have written about it many times.
We get why Frank might not want to say the elections are rigged.
He doesn’t have to say that, however.
He just has to call out the Dems for hiding public records despite being told to do otherwise by the state Open Records Office.
Let the people see in the name of good government and transparency, is all he needs to say.
That he hasn’t is political malpractice.
We get that the crushing tax hikes and loss of medical services are the important issues.
Failing to pick low hanging fruit, however, is inexcusable.
Especially when all the GOP has been doing for the last four months is posting vacation pixs.
All that was needed to create an issue was speaking at a county council meeting or a few social media posts.
This election is winnable if the people can be made to understand what is at stake.
