Committee Loss Leaves Bucks Boss Red Faced –Bucks County GOP Chairwoman Pat Poprik is probably wishing she hadn’t gone hands on in a committeeman race in the April 23 Primary.
Top-down micromanaging invariably backfires but Pat really wanted Barry Casper out of politics and needed long-time ally and incumbent Wally Rosenthal to keep his post in Hilltop Fairhill’s 2nd Precinct.
So she sent a letter on GOP letterhead to the residents praising Wally and saying all Barry wants to do is “create chaos for personal gain.”
What micromangers never get is that the ones closest to the scene know more about what’s going on. The residents of Hilltop Fairhill know Barry as a coach and neighbor and knew the grief he was putting himself through is for anything but personal gain.
Anyway, when the votes were counted it was Casper 202 to Rosenthal 146.
In other Bucks election news, challenger Mark Houck lost to incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick 39,168 to 22,957 in the GOP Primary for Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District.
Frankly, he did better than we expected.
Houck said at event we attended that he will back Fitzpatrick in the general. Hopefully, he hasn’t changed his mind.
Committee Loss Leaves Bucks Boss Red Faced
Congratulations to Barry Casper and to Mark Houck. Mark stood tall in the face of a slanderous onslaught and stood tall again when he stated he would back the incumbent this Fall. Mark is a man of God in the deepest sense of that and he is following His (and his) calling.