Miller Revealing Aument Indifference — Mike Miller, the guy who is taking on the Republican wool-garbed wolf who represents the 36th District in the Pennsylvania Senate, attended Monday’s Elanco School Board meeting and then the one in Warwick School District the next night.
He says he was there to support the parents and learn about the controversies. He spoke at neither.
Ryan Aument, the wolf that Miller is hunting, won election to the Senate eight years ago and has quickly worked his way into a leadership role holding the position of Caucus Secretary.
Miller, a 46-year-old investment advisor from Ephrata, is a husband of 19 years and father of three.
Miller never before sought political office. He became motivated to run when he began paying attention to Aument’s actions during the two years of Covid.
Miller notes that Aument did not represent the two-to-one Republican district in the way they should expect.
Aument backed Act 77 which gave this state the disaster of mail-in voting.
“People feel there is no accountability for that,” Miller said.
Miller also points out that Aument is the only Republican sponsor of SB 99, which would make diversity rather than competency or character the primary goal in hiring teachers.
Incumbent Ryan Aument
It’s not something that helps education or Lancaster County, Miller says.
Miller says he didn’t seek endorsement from the Republican Party.
“We don’t need their blessing to be a citizen,” he said.
He expects an onslaught from the party bosses in the next month.
Surprisingly, he expects to prevail. He says the there is a lot of dissatisfaction with Aument in the community, and the more people know about him the dissatisfaction has increased.
Miller says he is getting a good response as he goes door-to-door and finds voters become his enthusiastic after he explains Aument’s positions.
And Aument has been rather indifferent to his constituents.
Candidates Coleman And Daniels Discussed In Lt. Gov Roundup
By Bob Small
And here are two more Republican candidates for lieutenant governor. The primary election is May 17. Previous stories can be found here and here and here.
Jeff Coleman has one of the most extensive websites of any of the candidates and a plethora of experience and recommendations. He has over 50 (!) recommendations from people including Matt Brouillette, Rep. Donna Oberlander, and Sam Rohrer. Rick Santorum said “In a time of division, we need leaders like Jeff who can bring people together.”
Jeff Coleman
Coleman is the son of missionaries who served in the Phillipines during the 1986 overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos.
During his time in the Pennsylvania House, he helped lead the fights against gambling expansion and higher taxes. In an unusual move, after only serving two terms, he decided to retire from the State House to devote more time to his family.
In 2005, Coleman and his wife Rebecca founded Churchill Strategies to help conservative candidates and causes. He’s a graduate of Liberty University and Rebecca is a member of the Borough Council in Lemoyne.
He is also the author of the book “With All Due Respect, Recovering the Manners and Civility of Political Content”.
Teddy Daniels wears many hats. He’s an America Firster, combat veteran, pro-Trumper, and a retired police officer. He’s a recipient of the Combat Infantry Badge and the Purple Heart. In 2002, he was named Law Enforcement Officer of the Year by a Maryland American Legion post.
Teddy Daniels
At West Virginia University, he was a starting guard for its nationally-ranked football team.
He has been a leader in the legal marijuana market and is listed as a security advisor for Cannaspire.
In the last election, Daniels served the Trump campaign as the Northeast US Director of Vets for Trump. He has aligned himself with gubernatorial candidate Douglas Mastriano.
However, Rolling Stone Magazine has posted an article that includes accusations of domestic abuse, child support arrears, suspensions from his police job, and other offenses. The Feb 16 article made it clear that Teddy Daniels had declined an interview request and refused to answer a series of written questions.
There are also other articles echoing these charges, Voters may want to review these and form their own opinions.
Candidates Coleman And Daniels Discussed In Lt. Gov Roundup
Elanco School District Nightmare Update — An Elanco contact says the school board Monday (April 18) told the irate crowd of parents and other concerned citizens that they were addressing the matters raised in this article but couldn’t explain how due to protocols involved.
Nothing in the article was disputed, our contact said.
In Congress, an inverse relationship exists between the numbers of border crossers and a discussion about how millions of new migrants will be cared for. The greater the numbers, the less is said about open borders and the resultant negative long-term population consequences.
A report from the border indicates that immigration agents stopped about 7,100 worldwide migrants each day during a recent week. Department of Homeland Security officials predict that fiscal 2022 migration totals will surpass last year’s 2 million, plus an estimated 1,000-a-day “gotaways.” Once Title 42 is eliminated, the illegal alien surge will intensify because agents won’t be allowed to return migrants to Mexico based on COVID-19 grounds.
President Biden and those who advise him have privately agreed – they wouldn’t dare make a public announcement – that open borders are okay with them. In this era of shortages in oil and affordable housing and of supply chain disruptions causing product shortages everywhere, what will happen next to the migrants and to the U.S. environment after they settle? Limits to population growth exist, but are a taboo subject in Congress. Remember also that immigrants have multiplier factors like chain migration and increasing family size or starting new family unitsthat must eventually be provided for.
Consider the most fundamental natural resource need that everyone requires: water, and the nationwide dire shortage of it. The National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has created the U.S. Drought Monitor that maps nationwide drought conditions and maintains historical drought records. Ranked according to drought severity, the top seven states include four that are primary migrant destinations: Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas.
As of March, 90 percent of Texas is experiencing drought conditions with High Plains residents suffering from extreme drought. Forecasters warn that drought conditions could worsen, and some predict the possibility of unprecedented 10-year megadroughts that will bring hotter, drier and more extreme weather than normally seen. The University of Texas and its Environmental Institute analyzed the state’s water crisis and the probability of it expanding. Identified as one of the major contributors to water shortage was population growth. Texas’ population is expected to increase from today’s 29.5 million people to 51 million by 2070, with the majority residing in urban areas. Inarguably, the more people added to Texas’ population, the more difficult it becomes to overcome water shortage challenges.
The expected Texas population increase of 21 million people in less than 50 years is part of the U.S. total population growth of 70 million, to 404 million, during the same half decade. All will be daily consumers of water in multiple ways.
Those calling for increased immigration forget that growth is finite. Sir David Attenborough, the natural history filmmaker and biologist who advocated halving immigration into the United Kingdom to preserve as much of the landscape as possible once said, “I’ve never seen a problem that wouldn’t be easier to solve with fewer people, or harder, and ultimately impossible, with more.” Attenborough could have mentioned that water supply is an impossible-to-solve problem for any area when there are no limits to population growth.
It is desirable to convey a sense of what happens during the weekly A.V.A. Zoom-calls by providing a “patter” of the (alphabetized) initiatives of each state (embellished by cites from the Internet); they have been grouped but, otherwise, the titles are self-explanatory.
A few weeks ago, I provided the Opening Prayer for an A.V.A. call in which I concluded Mastriano’s lawn-sign theme [advocating action by a community exercising freedom, quoting John 8:36] was captured in a book published in 1956 by Abba Hillel Silver [Where Judaism Differed]. Another quote therefrom channels how the following hyperlinks were chosen, to wit, that they all encompass action-items based upon pondering facts:
In Judaism, the life of contemplation or of study was of significance only insofar as it led to action. {Multiple quotes from sages reinforce this view.} Judah Halevi warns men not to be beguiled by a species of Greek wisdom “that produces flowers but no fruit.” {Silver condemns Greeks for failing to apply their views of the ethical human into seeking social progress.}
Not surprisingly, doings in three states (Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin) dominate, but their activities are often apparent in what’s being pursued elsewhere (even in “red states” that would, at first blush, seem not to be priorities). I suppress my reactions to some of these observations because, often, the media haven’t extracted defensive quotations from Republicans who are blocking progress. Thus, “don’t kill the messenger” when an article is irksome, for it will often serve as a placeholder for what may soon transpire. Tireless heroes (Fincham, Favorito, Gableman in the three states supra, for example) are helping those working in multiple states (to be summarized soon, such as True the Vote); knowing of their works yields ANGER at those who would acquiesce to “let’s move on” postures of too many politicians (particularly statewide Pennsylvania candidates).
ALABAMAGovernor Kay Ivey’s Campaign Ad focuses on protect the election process from being stolen like Trump’s election was stolen in 2020. {This is a popular position.}
Sarah Palin took the lead in a crowded field of 50 other Congressional candidates in ALASKA’s special primary election on June 11; the top four candidates will advance to another special election slated for August 16. Ranked choice voting will be used to decide the winner, in line with a 2020 voter-approved new elections system. {The A.V.A. consensus was that this is only desirable for primaries, recalling Lani Guinier’s book.}
Events in ARIZONA are national trendsetters and, here, lengthy citations are intended to illustrate granular detail that other states may wish to emulate (legislative and judicial).}
Attorney General Mark Brnovich will be making arrests based on his Maricopa County 2020 Election Interim Report, for he already referred Criminal Action Against AZ Secretary of State Katie Hobbs For Election Crimes and floated possible future prosecutions because “There are problematic system-wide issues that relate to early ballot handling and verification.” Recalling the months-long time-delay after the audit and the Senate made referrals to the AG’s office, Tim Griffin opined, “It seems like he is hedging for his U.S. Senate Run. He talks tough, but there isn’t any action at this time.” [Appended are Brnovich’s cover-letter to Senate President Karen Fann (confirming total inaction) plus a 30-page “best practice” report c/o the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission detailing guidelines on establishing proper chain-of-custody that he cited; the latter carries import that should ripple nationally, even in the absence of dropboxes and their inherent faults.]
A.G. Report
Recommendations: Minimize mail-in ballots which are prone to fraud in line with the Carter-Baker Commission; early ballot signature verification should be strengthened, he cites a sample of 100 signature matches from a 2020 election challenged. Experts believed between 6% and 11% of the ballot signatures were inconclusive for matching. He found that the matching was rushed by poorly trained workers.
Signature Verification. Maricopa signature verification is insufficient to guard against abuse.
Chain of Custody. In the 2020 election, localities were supposed to deal with dropbox ballots in the following manner:
o Have two transporters present — one from each party;
o They were to document the location, date/time of arrival, time of departure, number of ballots, and to secure the container of ballots.
o 901,976 ballots were collected from drop boxes. 729k+ were collected during early voting, 172k+ were collected from drop boxes at polling locations.
o Early Voting Ballot Transportation Statements. Out of 1,895 Early Voting Ballot Transportation Statements — 381 forms or 20% were missing required info — signatures, missing receiver signatures, missing security seal numbers, missing documentation of courier signatures. “In other words, it is possible that between 100,000 and 200,000 ballots were transported without a proper chain of custody.”
Maricopa County battled the AG’s office and blocked the investigation.
Nonprofits. He suggests a law that criminalizes members of a nonprofit organization allowing members to engage in ballot harvesting. He also references the just released auditor general’s report on private money; he indicates that the investigation is ongoing but that Arizona law may have been broken in the acceptance and expenditure of this money.
Tim Griffin noted the legislature may stay in session until April 23 and could pass HB 2780; “this bill is sponsored by Rep. John Kavanaugh and co-sponsors include our friend Rep. Mark Finchem.” It passed the full state House and the Senate Elections Committee, but it may be awaiting a vote in the Senate Rules Committee; it’s alive, per AZ Central.
This a simple and relatively uncontroversial bill stating that the recorder (election’s clerk) must publish: [1]—before every election, the names of all registered active & inactive voters; [2]—after every election but before the canvass/certification, the names of those who voted (and their method of voting) with ballot images, and a cast-vote record (confirming batch totals). [https://legiscan.com/AZ/text/HB2780/id/2507582]
[text] Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 16, chapter 4, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 16-407.04, to read:
1. THE COUNTY RECORDER SHALL PUBLISH TEN DAYS BEFORE THE PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTION A LIST OF ALL VOTERS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE ELECTION, INCLUDING PERSONS WHO ARE ON THE INACTIVE VOTER LIST. THE COUNTY RECORDER
2. SHALL POST THIS INFORMATION ON THE COUNTY RECORDER’S WEBSITE AND SHALL REDACT THE VOTER’S DATE OF BIRTH, DRIVER LICENSE NUMBER, NONOPERATING IDENTIFICATION LICENSE NUMBER AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR PORTION OF THAT NUMBER, AS APPLICABLE, BEFORE PUBLISHING OR POSTING THE LIST.
2. AFTER THE PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTION AND FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE COUNTY CANVASS, THE COUNTY RECORDER OR OTHER OFFICER IN CHARGE OF ELECTIONS SHALL PUBLISH AND POST IN DIGITAL FORMAT ON THE COUNTY’S WEBSITE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
(a) A LIST OF ALL PERSONS WHO VOTED AND THEIR METHOD OF VOTING.
(b) ALL BALLOT IMAGES WITH THE UNIQUE IDENTIFYING NUMBER FROM THE BALLOT.
(c) THE CAST VOTE RECORD IN A SORTABLE FORMAT.
3. EARLY AND PROVISIONAL BALLOT TABULATORS SHALL IMPRINT A UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER ON EACH EARLY BALLOT TABULATED SO AS TO ALLOW THE BALLOT IMAGE TO BE LINKED TO THE PHYSICAL BALLOT. EARLY AND PROVISIONAL BALLOTS SHALL BE SEPARATED BY PRECINCT, TABULATED AND STORED BY PRECINCT.� ELECTION DAY BALLOTS ALSO SHALL BE STORED BY PRECINCT AFTER TABULATION.
4. THE OFFICER IN CHARGE OF ELECTIONS SHALL ENSURE THAT PAPER BALLOTS ARE SORTED AND STORED IN A MANNER THAT ALLOWS FOR CONVENIENT RETRIEVAL.
Republican Governor Kemp and Lt. Governor Duncan killed a key Election Integrity Bill to Unseal Ballots [HB1464], which would have made ballots public records and improved chain of custody procedures; also, it included a controversial limit on poll watchers, per VoterGA, that Republican Gunter refused to allow Favorito to discuss. It became the last bill to pass in the House and it moved through the Senate Ethics Committee before reaching the floor for a last-ditch effort to pass much needed election reforms. In the future, the Wolf Alert System c/o the Constitution Party of Georgia will provide updates.
The departingFulton County (Georgia’s largest jurisdiction) election director (Richard Barron) blasted lawmakers for playing “Old South” politics, getting out-of-town after a Georgia judge ordered Fulton County to “Provide an additional layer of security” for 2020 election records in the Senator Perdue case; he found the scrutiny from running the nation’s sloppiest local election since Broward County Florida’s hanging chads in 2000 to have become too stressful, for he said that the $160,000 salary + benefits wasn’t worth the hassle anymore. [Barron also complained that his staffer, Ruby Freeman, was “visited at home multiple times” because she pulled a suitcase of ballots from under a counting table and counted ballots multiple times.] Under Georgia’s 2021 Elections Law, the state now has increased oversight over such rogue localities and, at the recommendation of the state legislature, the State Election Board appointed a bipartisan performance review panel to investigate whether Baron’s office broke the law in 2020; Barron believes this competence oversight law is adversarial between the state and localities.
In TEXAS, there was an election failure in Dallas, when the locality ran into problems with Republican mail-in ballots; on the other hand, the new Texas law allowed for increased poll watcher access, with few reported problems. Incidence of rejection of mail-in ballots was 2-8% before 2020, under 1% in 2020, and 10% in 2022. Thus, election bureaucrats there and across the country cite such problems to argue their offices are underfunded and need distribution of new federal funds that they can spend indiscriminately.
In SOUTH DAKOTA, rejection of dropboxes was forced by invoking “Bonds For the Win”; All elected public officials are required to be bonded and they must sign an oath to uphold the Constitution of their State as well as the Constitution of the United States for America. Companies, contractors, and even unions are also required to have a surety bond. We the People – The community for whom the bondholder is OBLIGATED to serve. This info was provided by Patricia Tatem [ptatem416@hotmail.com].
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Brian Sims, the only openly gay candidate for lieutenant governor was involved in a recent kerfuffle. His campaign posted an ad that ended with the phrase “ENDORSED JOSH SHAPIRO”, which meant to say that Josh Shapiro, the only Democrat running for governor, had endorsed him. The only problem was that, that earlier this year, the state representative that Josh Shapiro had endorsed was Austin Davis of Allegheny County, who hopes to become the first African American elected to the Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor’s office.
In March, Brian Sims lost the support of both the state Democratic leaders and some parts of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transexual) Community.
One possible reason for the state Democrats to endorse a Shapiro-Davis ticket is geographical balance. Shapiro is from Montgomery County and Davis is from Allegheny County. Another possible reason is that David might help with the African American vote, which the Dems heavily depend on.
Of course, it should be noted that neither major party would endorse a candidate who exhibits too much independent thinking.
In a March 3 press conference, more than 40 LGBTQ leaders threw their lot in with Austin Davis.
Among the charges against Brian Sims is his failure to have any legislation passed after a decade in office. He is also alleged to have an abrasive personality –along with many, if not most, of his fellow legislators. Those are the only charges filed against him that could be found.
It should be noted that by necessity there is a great deal pragmatism at work in the LGBTQ Community, as there is in any marginalized community. “The LGBTQ community is not a monolith,” said LGBTQ Victory Fund spokesperson Elliott Imse. The LGBTQ community decided to endorse Davis over Sims.
Why is Josh Shapiro the only Dem Candidate, while the GOP has 10? That’s for another column.
