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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,366 posts)
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 02:34 PM Jul 2022

Doug Mastriano's Election-Takeover Plan

By now, political junkies are familiar with the rucksack of election-denying baggage that Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano schleps around: He organized a faux post-election legal hearing for Rudy Giuliani in Gettysburg; he asked Congress to deny Pennsylvania’s electors; he spent thousands of campaign funds busing people to the Capitol on Jan. 6th; he was filmed crossing police barricades; some of his supporters were arrested for their activities that day, and he visited Arizona to observe its disastrous Cyber Ninjas audit in hopes of replicating it in Pennsylvania.

Those are only the highlights of what Mastriano has done in the past. But what about the future? People like Mastriano are never going to let Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss go. If anything, Trump’s “Stop the Steal” lies provide a pretext for actions intended to ensure MAGA types win in future elections.

How will they do it? Well, Mastriano has some ideas. (Well above and beyond hiring Trump’s throne-sniffing flack Jenna Ellis as his legal adviser.)

Although Mastriano evades scrutiny by blockading typical media interviews, with some help from his insurrection-friendly friends, he doesn’t hesitate to talk about his plans when he feels comfortable. Put those snippets together, and it shows Mastriano has a pretty well-thought-out election takeover plan in mind.

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https://www.thebulwark.com/doug-mastrianos-election-takeover-plan/

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Doug Mastriano's Election-Takeover Plan (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2022 OP
"Stop the Steal is only a pretense for seizing control." FakeNoose Jul 2022 #1
Kick & recommend. bronxiteforever Jul 2022 #2

FakeNoose

(35,702 posts)
1. "Stop the Steal is only a pretense for seizing control."
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 03:06 PM
Jul 2022

From the OP - this author Amanda Carpenter (for The Bulwark) isn't kidding around! I like her style, and she's not doing any "bothsides" crap either.

Doug Mastriano is planning to take over the state of Pennsylvania, defund the PA Supreme Court, decertify our 2-year-old electronic voting machines, shut-down the vote-by-mail system, and a whole bunch of other Hitler-ish sounding things. The net result will allow Doug Mastriano to rule our state for as long as he likes. And he's not making any secret of it either.

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