Bad News Is Good News

State Sen. Doug Mastriano told a crowd in North Philadelphia that Latinos were the future of the Republican Party.  He encouraged them to support his campaign, before descending into what GOTV considers condescension and pandering.  Speaking in Spanish, Mastriano said his effort was all about Dios, patria, familia (God, country, and family).  Waxing even more radical, he continued We are at a crossroads between tyranny and freedom.

The event in question, called by organizers Philadelphia’s 1st Hispanic Town Hall, was sponsored by the Small Business Union.  About 75 people attended, with seats for nearly double that available. Almost as numerous as the attendees were the 30 people, including surrogates for Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s gubernatorial campaign, who protested Mastriano’s visit.

But wait - there's more.   GOTV hopes Latinos, and all of us, realize that Mastriano:

• cosponsored legislation in Harrisburg that would put a fee on undocumented immigrants’ money transfers to their homelands
• would ban the use of public benefits for illegal immigrants
• would strengthen and expand the E-Verify law, to ensure employers cannot hire illegal immigrants
• called Pennsylvania a border state and pledged to make it the Florida of the North

Finally, with apologies but it seems worth mentioning, the website of the Small Business Union appears not to have been updated for at least three years ...