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PA hype man, music and concerts, Philly fan, Pitt alum. Comms for common good and democracy @comms2pa @allaboutpa . Fmr PA Gov press secretary. Personal account.
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if/when the weird billionaire owner of this site fully destroys it
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Governor-elect
@JoshShapiroPA
on Mastriano’s lack of concession:
“Honestly, who cares? People pick the winner, not him.”
#PAGOV
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🔥🔥 After
@malcolmkenyatta
points out their lies about this abortion rights ban and hypocrisy saying they “want voters to decide” after majority of
@PAHouseGOP
tried to help Trump overturn PA’s election, GOP shuts off his mic then shuts the public from the debate.
#StopPABans
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Thank you
@JohnFetterman
for standing up for Pennsylvania's democracy and the rule of law.
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📽️
@PAHouseGOP
leader has meltdown on House floor after it was raised that his caucus is 100% white in a chamber that is 70% male while pushing bills that hurt women's health, especially Black and brown women.
He had it stricken from the record then they shut down the floor.
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.
@Jim_Gardner
uses the end of his final
@6abc
broadcast to defend journalism in America. “We are not the enemy of the people.”
Worth a watch.
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Pat Toomey does not get a courage award for waiting until a federal judge told him all of our votes should not be just thrown out over a bunch of nonsense.
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Washington County, Pennsylvania, GOP Chair: “We did not send him there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to ‘do the right thing’ or whatever”
PA Republicans are moving to censure Pat Toomey for voting to convict President Trump Saturday - another sign of how loyalty to Trump is defining the party:
w/
@AndrewSeidman
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PA sent Trump back to Florida in 2020, and this year, we’ll send Oz back to Jersey and Mastriano back to 1861.
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Nobody tells it like it is quite like
@malcolmkenyatta
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Watch him shred the GOP for their hypocrisy so hard they had to shut down the floor.
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Mastriano put out a missive yesterday saying ALL mainstream media outlets in PA were too corrupt to moderate a debate.
And a bunch of outlets just… wrote about it like normal.
When will PA journalists and their industry groups stop accepting this smear campaign?
#PAGOV
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GOP operative on Oz’s gross abortion answer in
#PASenDebate
last night: “That was the most heinous, atrocious answer that Dr. Oz could have possibly uttered last night.”
#PASen
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“Dr. Oz may not just have fake medical claims, he may have fake Pennsylvania claims”
@StephenAtHome
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UP NEXT:
There is a crucial 2023 Supreme Court election in Pennsylvania.
Both GOP candidates are anti-abortion and pro-gun.
One even brags about being the only judge to back Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Our rights, freedoms and futures are on the ballot.
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🚨🚨
FBI delivers subpoenas to several Pa. Republican lawmakers: sources say
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Former
#PAGOV
Tom Ridge (R) declines to endorse his party’s nominee Doug Mastriano and calls
@JoshShapiroPA
a “very impressive man” in
@PennLive
interview.
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Unreal how ignorant some pundits still are about Pennsylvania.
Tom Wolf was a literal Planned Parenthood escort, vetoed a 20 week abortion ban, and won two statewide elections by an average of 14 points.
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Once again we’re asking Ted to keep Pennsylvania out of his mouth.
The “laws on the books” in PA already allow the governor to do this.
No one has been executed in PA for decades.
Everyone is still convicted and staying in jail.
You came for PA in 2020. You lost. Stay away.
Nothing to see here.
Just a Democrat governor ignoring the laws on the books, disregarding multiple jury verdicts, and promising to give clemency to every capital murderer in Pennsylvania.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats win control of Pennsylvania House in special elections, splitting power in an important swing state.
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@JohnFetterman
supports taxing billionaires and tackling climate change.
One of the best ways to get back at Manchin is to make him irrelevant since he clearly loves attention.
Elect Fetterman, hold the line elsewhere, and sink the Manchin yacht of obstruction.
#PASEN
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Absolutely irresponsible and ridiculous that
@CNN
is airing Doug Mastriano’s speech live. A known liar and disinformation spreader who just barred press from his event on Sunday.
He just made a transphobic comment and attacked the media. What are you doing??
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Holy crap. Watch
@jonstewart
call out
@SenToomey
for his cowardice and cruelty in blocking a bipartisan benefits bill for veterans. This is the absolutely bottom barrel of politics. Completely shameful.
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Tomorrow is swearing-in day for the PA legislature.
Despite being ousted by voters in 2022, PA Republicans are trying to delay special elections so they can temporarily hold power and jam through the exact agenda voters rejected.
🧵 of editorials denouncing this craven ploy.
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I challenge every PA media outlet to do as many stories on parents and kids being excited/relieved about getting the vaccines as you did about a minority of adults refusing to take them.
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Jim Jordan targeted Pennsylvania and tried to corrupt our election and cancel our votes. He was Trump’s ringleader in Congress.
Any member of the PA delegation voting for him would be a betrayal of the commonwealth and their constituents, whose votes Jordan tried to throw out.
NEW AD: Every Republican who votes for Jim Jordan to be Speaker of the House should be held accountable for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, support for the attack on our country on January 6th, and attacks on our democracy.
WATCH >>
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#PAGOV
Doug Mastriano:
- wants to outright ban abortion with no exceptions
- pledged to gut funding for public schools
- voted against a $9.50 minimum wage for PA
- supports a union-busting right-to-work bill
- tried to cancel PA votes and stormed the US Capitol grounds on Jan. 6
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Big takeaway that should be obvious: Pennsylvania Democratic primary voters, especially in districts in big metro areas, are *progressive*
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PA Republicans: The PA constitution is sacred
Also PA Republicans: We’re gonna use the PA constitution to take away your rights
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Hi from Pennsylvania where only Republicans are preventing this from happening. They control both chambers.
This is not a both sides can’t agree problem. A clean pre-canvass bill would pass if given a vote.
Instead, they’re trying to leverage pre-canvass for Trump’s demands.
See, Pennsylvania, it’s not so hard: Iowa instructs election officials processing absentee ballots to place naked ballots in a secrecy envelope - not discard the ballots.
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PA hasn’t had train travel expansion in decades.
This week Biden/Casey announced real progress towards:
- Expanded service from Pittsburgh to Philly and dozens of places in between
- New rail connecting:
— Scranton to NYC
— Reading, Pottstown, Phoenixville to Philly
Massive.
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So proud of everyone in Pennsylvania who helped beat Doug Mastriano. That rocks.
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PA’s GOP legislature merging hard-right onto the Mastriano Expressway
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In a tirade,
@PASenateGOP
Sen. Pennycuick railed against fairly funding public colleges and says that “poor, inner city, black, brown, whatever” kids can get affordable college by joining the military.
#pabudget
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PA flips a legislative chamber to Democratic for the first time in over a decade and in the first year, working parents and low-income seniors get the biggest tax relief increase in history. Elections matter.
Pa. dramatically expands child and dependent care tax credits
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Not enough eyes in the world to roll for people who spent months suggesting Joe Biden has dementia, which he does not have, and mocking it, a real problem for so many families, now outraged over anyone not expressing deepest sympathies and respect for their political opponents.
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70 Legislative Republicans in PA signed a letter urging congress not to count our certified votes.
More than any other state, they perpetuated The Big Lie and lots of little lies to help Trump using their government offices.
Demands accountability. Will there be? So far, no.
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Can we go a day without our legislature making Pennsylvania a national embarrassment? Asking for 12.8 million friends.
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69% of Pennsylvania’s 12 and over population now has at least their first shot of the vaccine.
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We are fortunate to have
@RepMcClinton
rise to become Leader in this moment. She gets it. She’s ready and fighting for PA’s values, rights and future.
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This primary marks my 13th year working in Pennsylvania politics and it is the most weird election by an absolute insane margin.
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Just a reminder to no one in particular that since voters put Democrats in the majority of both the House and Senate, they can subpoena anyone to testify before Congress and, outside the trial, the Republicans can’t. Accountability should not end with minority acquittal.
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The Texas abortion ban is unbelievably cruel and medically absurd.
A Republican governor and legislature in Pennsylvania would absolutely enact something similar.
Get ready for 2022.
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Who held his own so well in the last year+ that he was in basically no GOP attack ads, consistently drew a sharp contrast between the GOP and what could be done in Harrisburg, and spent years defining the stakes of PA elections around abortion rights?
Our guy
@GovernorTomWolf
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Have to thank Mastriano for posting a produced “ad” to his Rumble where I first found this damning clip of him callously dismissing the concerns of millions of Pennsylvanians.
What a 3 second gift. People really hate this clip, including seemingly… Doug Mastriano.
#PAGOV
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Take Mastriano literally and seriously. He literally wants to do the extreme things he says and he is seriously committed to building power to do them.
No time to waste. PA GOP insiders are back in. I’m going to assume he could win. So it’s going to take all of us to stop him.
A middling fundraiser with little party support, Mastriano rose to the top of a crowded GOP field for Pennsylvania governor through candid chats about his extreme conservative views.
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We did it ya’lllllllll
AP calls the PA Supreme Court race for Democratic nominee Dan McCaffery
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I cannot stress this enough:
The most impactful thing you can do to protect Pennsylvania from Trump’s extremist judges is to donate, volunteer and vote to flip the state legislature to change state laws and prevent a right-wing court’s agenda from being implemented. 🚨
#FlipPA
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Oz’s team schedules tweet hitting Fetterman for being “nowhere to be found” after Fetterman spent the weekend doing a huge rally and parade in Pennsylvania while Oz was… in Florida.
I guess his campaign both “doesn’t speak for him” and doesn’t know what he’s doing
#PASEN
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Pittsburgh Jewish, Black leaders call out Mastriano for ties to Gab social platform
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Kansas voters just rejected a version of PA GOP’s plan to ban abortion rights.
PA can’t let Mastriano and the PA GOP abuse the process to take away our rights and freedoms.
We can stop them. We have the power of the vote.
#BansOffOurConstitution
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Worth noting that Sen. Pennycuick received more than $400k in campaign support in 2022 from anti-public education PACs funded by billionaire Jeffrey Yass.
Here she uses their talking points to trash public colleges and argue against investment 🤔
In a tirade,
@PASenateGOP
Sen. Pennycuick railed against fairly funding public colleges and says that “poor, inner city, black, brown, whatever” kids can get affordable college by joining the military.
#pabudget
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Meet the PA Republicans who spread Trump's lies, asked Congress to cancel PA's votes and helped sow an insurrection - and now want to be trusted with our elections.
They want us to forget what they did in 2020 but you cannot separate that from what's happening now
A thread 🧵
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Abortion is still legal in Pennsylvania. And we will absolutely fight like hell - in the streets, at the ballot box, and in the halls of power - to stop PA Republicans from banning abortion.
It is up to us in PA, not them. No fucking way we're going backwards.
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Read more on how these extreme anti-abortion bills would increase maternal mortality, which is a huge problem in PA and disproportionally so for Black women, from
@WomensLawProj
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Don’t assume Mastriano will lose. GOP will embrace him and deny his extremism. He controls their base.
But we can stop him and save PA from him and PA’s GOP legislature taking away our rights and freedoms.
Organize. Mobilize. Vote
@JoshShapiroPA
.
It’s up to us.
#PAGOV
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Welcome to Dr. Oz’s Palm Beach “estate” in Florida that is so grandiose that he does not consider it a “home” but rather a “property” that he sometimes visits and sometimes lends to other rich people who appreciate a humble marble staircase with Grecian columns.
#PASEN
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UP NEXT AFTER OHIO
In November, PA’s Supreme Court is on the ballot.
PAGOP ticket is extremely anti-abortion and their billionaire funders are desperate to take back the court.
Follow
@JudgeMcCaffery
@ElectJillBeck
and
@JudgeLaneForPA
and get ready to
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A classic Philly man on the street react
A neighbor in NE Philly describes what it was like to wake up to the confusion just outside his door after a portion of I-95 collapsed just a few blocks from him.
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These men deserve dignity, at minimum, but they truly deserve much, much more due to the injustice they endured.
Oz is so desperate he’s willing to do anything to win, just like he was willing to sellout the medical profession to make a buck. Pathetic.
It's really unfortunate that I had to call these two remarkable men on our team today and apologize for what was coming their way. But it was also a clear example of the difference between the kind of man that John is, and the truly soulless immorality of our opponent & his staff
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Pennsylvania has a health crisis.
Pennsylvania has a climate crisis.
Pennsylvania has a housing crisis.
Pennsylvania has a poverty crisis.
Pennsylvania does not have a 2020 election crisis.
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One PA political party’s political operations are almost solely funded by one billionaire obsessed with one issue but when that party grinds legislative activity to a halt over that exact issue, the billionaire nor the spending isn’t mentioned in any of the media coverage. Why?
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Mastriano and DeSantis’ rally in Pittsburgh has a strict no-gun policy: it will be in a gun-free zone, including no concealed carry weapons.
Compare that with Mastriano’s plan to put more guns in PA schools, citing “nonsense” idea of gun-free zones.
What hypocrisy.
#PAGOV
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Doug Mastriano bragged he talked to Donald Trump more than 15 times before January 6th.
They even talked in the days after and Doug prayed with Trump.
Instead of getting Trump to call off the mob, Mastriano marched with rioters across police lines at the Capitol.
#PAGOV
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One lesson of last night’s game is that if you get vaccinated and date a woman from Pennsylvania, you will achieve greatness.
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PA Republicans want to make ballot dropboxes illegal but don’t worry, thanks to them, anyone can still legally buy an AR-15 in parking lot without a background check in PA.
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PA’s GOP legislature is moving legislation to:
- undermine unions
- ban abortion
- privatize liquor
- sabotage elections
- attack the courts
PA’s GOP legislature is not moving legislation to:
- raise wages
- improve benefits
- make workplaces safer
- lower the cost of living
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Welp, Mastriano admits he lost: “we *would’ve* beat him” had voters not known Doug’s positions or beliefs.
Welcome to politics, man.
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Two dudes who will never win a general election in Pennsylvania
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When Republicans complain about the delay in counting PA ballots, ask why this bill has been sitting in committee since April 2021?
The only people to blame for this are majority Republicans. They know a clean bipartisan pre-canvassing bill would pass. They chose to block it.
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PA's two top courts are now both controlled by Democrats and led by women.
INBOX: Judge Anne Lazarus unanimously elected President Judge of Pennsylvania Superior Court
@PACourts
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This is a broader comment than this specific post but this kind of generalization is part of the reason that it doesn’t change.
“Our entire legislature” isn’t responsible for the lack of increase. House Dems passed one last year.
By blaming everyone, Republicans get to skate by
Our entire legislature should be ashamed.
As I've said before, we should pay any PA politician who opposes raising the minimum wage $7.25 an hour and see how quickly they change their damn minds.
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Today the Brian Fitzpatrick “moderate” myth ends. He’s an opportunist only.
An incredibly shameful vote by any member of the Pennsylvania delegation given the lengths Jim Jordan went to corrupt Pennsylvania’s election and throw out our votes.
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The lengths that Scott Perry went to corrupt and cancel the votes of fellow Pennsylvanians, including his own constituents like me… absolutely disqualifying. A gross abuse of office.
He should have resigned years ago but we have the ability to kick him out of office in 2024.
Court filing reveals Rep. Scott Perry’s vast web of contacts in bid to reverse 2020 election via
@politico
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Before Roe was overturned, Mastriano called banning abortion at conception with no exceptions his “number one issue” and his 6-week total ban “priority number one”
Post-Roe, he’s running from reporters to dodge questions about his and the GOP legislature’s dangerous plan.
#PAGOV
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McCormick called the Dobbs ruling “a huge victory and a huge step forward” and celebrated forthcoming total abortion bans in the 2022 GOP primary.
Now he’s trying to hide his position.
#PASEN
New: McCormick echoes GOP plan to denounce IVF restrictions, Casey blames Dobbs ruling
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Crowd already forming outside the Linc to watch the I-95 livestream
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Tomorrow, the White House will be occupied by Pennsylvanians.
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This should be the prevailing Hur storyline of the day: he lied and abused his DOJ position to help Donald Trump
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I would encourage everyone not to follow in the steps of the GOP’s completely depraved and cruel treatment of John Fetterman when it comes to Senator McConnell.
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Leading Northeast PA Republican, a
@PAGOP
endorsed candidate, who led bus trip to DC, caught lying about storming the US Capitol
First, Scavo said he didn’t go near the Capitol.
Then he said he didn’t go inside.
Now, photos show him inside. 🤦♂️
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70 Pa. school board members have signed a letter against Doug Mastriano’s public education plan
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.
@PaHouseDems
new majority passed:
- constitutional right to organize
- universal background checks
- teacher shortage package
- worker safety protections
- LGBTQ non-discrimination
- extreme risk protection orders
- wage theft protection
PA Senate GOP majority passed:
- ???
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