Long-time Dem Donors Pretend To Be Ex Trump Supporters — An add featuring two supposedly ordinary Pennsylvanians claiming to be former Trump supporters and lifelong Republicans who are now going to vote for the Democrat candidate.
They say they are turned off by January 6 and Charlottesville,
Oh, the humanity! LOL
Bad Hombre has posted on X that he has found that these “lifelong Republicans’ are Robert Lang and Kristina Chadwick. They own Sugartown Strawberries in Malvern and are rather woke folk.
They have been prolific donors to Democrats for over a decade including to ActBlue, says Hombre.
By the way, Charlottesville has long been know to be an establishment hoax, and Trump is being revealed to have been the good guy on January 6, 2021.
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. A. E. Housman
Jeff Jones Meet And Greet Oct. 10 — Jeff Jones, who is running for the 163rd District Pennsylvania House seat, will hold a meet and greet, 6 p.m., Oct. 10 at J.T. Brewski’s 510 S. Oak Ave., Primos, Pa. The $50 ticket includes food and open bar.
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. Benjamin Franklin
Dave McCormick Stops In Drexel Hill — Dave McCormick this afternoon, Sept. 24, gave a persuasive list of reasons as to why he should replace the 15-year incumbent at Pennsylvania’s U.S. senator during a campaign stop at Chickie’s and Pete’s in Drexel Hill.
The most persuasive was that the incumbent voted for the Biden-Harris platform 99-percent of the time.
The incumbent’s sainted father is looking down with absolute disgust.
McCormick said this was the most important election in our lives and a Kamala Harris victory would cause misery and penury through the lifetimes of our grandchildren.
He’s right and, yes, that’s an endorsement of Donald Trump.
McCormick is campaigning with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, the bête noire of Trump supporters.
Except for some women with ties to Georgia, Kemp was generally ignored by the audiance.
McCormick said the polls have closed greatly in his senate race and that he expects to win. He noted that while Democrats had about a one-million voter registration advantage in 2020, that is down now to a tick over 300,000.
McCormick gave shout outs to many of the candidates involved in state races and to Alfe Goodwin who is seeking the 5th District congressional seat.
Dave McCormick makes no secret that he wants Alfe Goodwin to win Pennsylvania’s 5th District Congressional race.
McCormick pledges to Sharon Devaney that he will close the open border.
With McCormick are GOP Pennsylvania House candidates Kay Dugery, in the 166th District; Kathy Buckley in the 168th District; and Jeff Jones in the 163 District.
IEPs And Perverted Principals Topic Of Educational Town Hall — A town hall, last night, Sept. 23, sponsored by congressional candidate Alfe Goodwin addressed Pennsylvania’s crisis in education. It was held at the Media VFW and drew an active and diverse crowd.
By diverse, we don’t just mean Black and White — although it applies. We mean Republican and Democrat, and city and suburb.
The room was full despite attempts by social media censors to hide the event’s promotion.
Alfe is seeking to unseat the wife of the CEO of high-powered law firm Ballard Spahr to represent Pennsylvania’s 5th District. The district is all of Delaware County along with parts of Montgomery, Philadelphia and Chester counties.
Speakers were NaDerah Griffin, and Sharon Devaney. Ms. Griffin is a former Philadelphia School District educator, who is a mental health specialist, and Sharon M. Devaney is a single mom who described her tribulations with the Haverford School District.
Moderator was Joy Schwartz, a retired Penn Wood teacher who still occasionally substitutes.
Many in the audience also shared their experiences with public education along with other institutions in obvious decline such as the military.
Ms. Griffin noted how the misuse of individual education plans (IEPs) has resulted in numerous children being placed on life-long paths of despair.
“When you pull children out they feel they are dumb,” she says.
She said IEPs can be beneficial. The shortage of teachers, however, in the city schools along with the lack of training for them results in children being diagnosed improperly.
She said situations such as trauma and poverty are incorrectly diagnosed as intellectual problems.
Ms. Devaney described the battles she fought with her district to keep her children from being drugged and bullied.
She said Haverford sought to put her son on an IEP but she fought them and won.
She noted the administration’s indifference, if not actual defense, of high ranking officials who should have been dismissed for extremely inappropriate behavior.
Shelia Armstrong, a North Philadelphia parent-teacher advocate, spoke from the audience. She described how she won a lawsuit against the educational establishment’s failure to uphold the General Assembly’s constitutional obligation to provide a “thorough and efficient” system of public education.
Ms. Armstrong also noted that the teachers unions are blocking needed reform. She cited their refusal to allow cameras in the classroom.
“I’m just so tired of the union right now,” she said. “. . .It’s promoting everything else but education.”
She expressed strong support for school choice.
She said progress is being made, however. Ms. Armstrong pointed out that if a child attacks a school employee, the employee can sue the parents.
Through September 13, Vice President Kamala Harris has visited Pennsylvania twelve times. Most of her campaign stops have been in red counties that supported former President Donald Trump in 2020. Along the way, Harris made an assortment of campaign promises and highlighted her resume to generate support for her presidential bid. Harris’ mission is to acquaint voters with her qualifications and her views for the future. A September New York Times/Siena poll found nearly one-third of voters don’t know who Harris is.
Both Harris and Trump have focused on Pennsylvania, the “swingiest” swing state in a must-win tight presidential election. Between the two, they’ve visited the Commonwealth two dozen times, exclusive of the stand-alone visits from Harris’ VP running mate, MinnesotaGov. Tim Walz and Trump’s VP pick, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. When, in early September, Harris landed at John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria Airport, Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. John Fetterman, his wife Gisele, and Johnstown Democrat Mayor Frank Janakovic joined her. Johnstown, a small city within Cambria County, has a population of 18,000. In 2020, Cambria County voted for Trump over Biden 68% to 31%. On another stop in Wilkes-Barre, part of Luzerne County, Harris, for the first time, pledged to lower the standards for federal government employment. The 2020 election results showed that in Wilkes-Barre Trump defeated Biden by a 57% to 42% margin. Those are powerful margins that Harris would have to overcome to cut into Trump’s popularity.
Harris doubled down on her economic opportunity and pro-small business agenda. If elected, Harris promised to eliminate the “unnecessary degree requirements for federal jobs and increase jobs for folks without a four-year degree, understanding that requiring a certain degree does not necessarily talk about one’s skills.” Instead, Harris called for alternative pathways to good-paying jobs like apprenticeships and vocational training or adult education. Voters who have been casting ballots since the Clinton administration recognize Harris’ promises as empty. President Bill Clinton created GEAR UP, a 1998 program designed to help high-school students better prepare for the professional world. The Department of Education squandered millions on the failed program. In a corporate world that relies heavily on technology, specifically the STEM occupations—science, technology, engineering, and math— a vocational school diploma will rarely replace a college degree.
Then, touting her credentials as the former California Attorney General, Harris pointed to “transnational” cartels, and said, “I know these cartels firsthand, and as president, I will make sure we prosecute them to the full extent of the law for pushing poison like fentanyl on our children.”
In 2022, around 73,838 people in the United States died from a drug overdose that involved fentanyl, the highest number of fentanyl overdose deaths ever recorded, and a significant increase from the 36,319 reported in 2019, just weeks from President Joe Biden’s and Harris’ inauguration. Their open border agenda began immediately. Fentanyl overdoses are the driving force behind the opioid epidemic, accounting for the majority of U.S. overdose fatalities.
Curbing fentanyl deaths is an action Harris, the so called “Border Czar,” could do today if she enforced immigration laws which would prevent cartels and other illegal aliens from entering the nation without inspection. Of all of Harris’ hollow promises, none is less convincing than her vow to prosecute drug cartels. As she moves along in her campaign from swing state to swing state, drug traffickers are crossing the Southwest border daily and pushing their deadly drugs into American communities like Johnstown and Wilkes-Barre. In Pennsylvania, overdose deaths rose by 16.4% in 2020 and continued rising to 5,438 reported overdose deaths in 2021, a 6% year-over-year increase. Expressed in starker terms, an average of 15 Pennsylvanians died each and every day of a drug overdose in the last year. Harris has failed at her most important duty—to keep America safe.
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Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
Fixing Government Gone Wrong Is Keystone Topic — Using the Constitution when government goes wrong is the subject of Thursday’s, Sept. 26, Keystone Town Hall.
It’s 7 p.m. in the amphitheater of the Desmond Hotel, 1 Liberty Blvd., Malvern, Pa. 19355.
Speakers are Shannon Grady, who chairs Moms for Libery, Chesco Chapter, and Fenicia Redman who is in a court battle concerning porn in schools.
