Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Mastriano Is Dangerous

GOTV considers Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano dangerous in several ways.

First, his innate misogyny. Mastriano has said on more than one occasion I am pro-life. It's the number one issue, I don't give way to exceptions either.

Second, his pandering to the far right.  A report in the New York Times identified Mastriano as a go-to person in efforts to divert Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes to Donald Trump, by creating an alternate (AKA made-up) slate of electors.

Third, his participation in the 01/06/21 attack on the U S Capitol.

Fourth, his belief that a state legislature can choose its own Electoral College delegates if that body believes the popular vote to have been fraudulent.

The chair of the Republican Committee of Allegheny County claimed that Mastriano was never copied in during discussions about efforts to override the popular vote. Which is both a feeble attempt at plausible deniability, and a tacit admission that such efforts did exist … 

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