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Related: About this forumDoug Mastriano, senator seeking Pa. GOP governor nomination, issued 1/6 subpoena
(link) https://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2022/02/15/Doug-Mastriano-senator-seeking-Pa-GOP-governor-nomination-issued-1-6-subpoena/stories/202202150116
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Feb. 15, 2002 5:46 p.m.
HARRISBURG A Pennsylvania state senator who was in regular communication with Donald Trump as the then-president sought to reverse his 2020 election loss, and was outside the U.S. Capitol the afternoon of the Jan. 6 rioting, was subpoenaed Tuesday by the congressional committee looking into the insurrection.
Sen. Doug Mastriano, a former Army officer currently seeking the Republican nomination for governor, was asked by the Jan. 6 select committee to hand over documents and information about efforts to name a slate of alternate Electoral College electors for Trump.
The committee cited a Nov. 28, 2020, tweet by Mr. Mastriano that said he was pushing to have the Pennsylvania Legislature appoint electors.
Days after President Joe Bidens victory was certified in Pennsylvania, Mr. Mastriano sponsored a resolution in the Legislature to undo the certification, declare the election in dispute and effectively overturn state law by empowering the Republican-controlled Legislature to pick electors. The resolution did not gather any cosponsors and died in committee without action on Nov. 30.
Sen. Doug Mastriano, a former Army officer currently seeking the Republican nomination for governor, was asked by the Jan. 6 select committee to hand over documents and information about efforts to name a slate of alternate Electoral College electors for Trump.
The committee cited a Nov. 28, 2020, tweet by Mr. Mastriano that said he was pushing to have the Pennsylvania Legislature appoint electors.
Days after President Joe Bidens victory was certified in Pennsylvania, Mr. Mastriano sponsored a resolution in the Legislature to undo the certification, declare the election in dispute and effectively overturn state law by empowering the Republican-controlled Legislature to pick electors. The resolution did not gather any cosponsors and died in committee without action on Nov. 30.
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Mr. Mastriano organized bus trips to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and advertised himself ahead of time as a scheduled speaker on the Capitol steps during the afternoon. He has described getting prime seats to Mr. Trumps speech before the riot. He subsequently claimed he left the U.S. Capitol area after the eruption of violence, which in the aftermath he called unacceptable.
Mastriano is a Repuke's Repuke, and he has an even chance to win his party's nomination for Governor this spring.
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Doug Mastriano, senator seeking Pa. GOP governor nomination, issued 1/6 subpoena (Original Post)
FakeNoose
Feb 2022
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badhair77
(4,623 posts)1. God help us if he becomes our next governor.
There are signs in our neighborhood already. He is truly repulsive.
Duncanpup
(13,691 posts)2. I also live in Pennsylvania adams county
Magastan
twodogsbarking
(12,228 posts)3. I endorse him for prison.
PRETZEL
(3,245 posts)4. I think he's also the prime sponsor
of the proposed "fraudit" effort here.