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Ryan Costello Globally Warm And Comfy — Ryan Costello, who represented Pennsylvania’s once-Republican 6th Congressional District until his quitting in 2018, has found a comfy and warm landing spot.

He is now managing director of Americans for Carbon Dividends, which is pushing for something called the Baker-Shultz Carbon Dividends Plan which will increase the cost of energy ostensibly to save the planet from burning up.

He had a column in the Jan. 7 Wall Street Journal which if you have a subscription can be read here.

Besides working class mechants using air conditioners, he also bemoans the existence of the Second Amendment and immigration laws.

Hey, who needs social justice warriors when you have Ryanos?

Anyway, Costello’s long-time friend and bosom-buddy enabler is Val DiGiorgio who chaired the Chester County GOP when Costello was a rising star.

DiGiorgio, who kept the county title until Dec. 7, became state GOP chairman in February 2017.

His tenure as county chairman saw a once Republican stronghold turn Democrat. His tenure as state chairman has been similarly spectacular.

Of course, we can’t be too hard on him. Being party chairman is just his hobby. His day job is being the “contact” for Stradley Ronon’s Government and Political Affairs Division. Stadley Ronon can be fairly described as a full-service political fixing firm. Services Val’s division has boasted of providing include “creating and shepherding major tax legislation for the mutual fund industry”; “lobbying for proposed rules and regulations on behalf of the insurance industry;” and “lobbying for congressional appropriations for public safety, health care and bio-tech clients.”

Val still has his defenders in the GOP. We’d like to ask them — with Tucker Carlson sincerity — how exactly can DiGiorgio represent the Republican rank and file and Stradely Ronon? Whose side would DiGiorgio must likely take in a conflict, the Republican rank and file or a Stradely Ronon client?

The last question was obviously rhetorical.

And for any Democrats reading this we’d like to point out that rising D star Josh Shapiro was a well-paid, high-ranking employee of Stradley Ronon until winning the state Attorney General race in 2016.

The real enemy is the uniparty.

Here’s another question: How come the only place you hear about these Stradley Ronon connections is here?

Ryan Costello Globally Warm And Comfy