I’ve been an eligible voter since 1972. I believed 2020 was by far the most important election of my lifetime. As November 8th approaches, I think this one is just as important as 2024 will be. In Pennsylvania, we have a gubernatorial candidate put forth by the (erstwhile) Party of Lincoln whose beliefs and actions are diametrically opposed to Lincoln’s. A candidate who – as a state senator – took busloads of people to the January 6th riot and insurrection. He spent the two months before that spreading disinformation and attempting to keep Pennsylvania’s electoral votes from being cast for Joe Biden, who won the state by more than 100,000 votes.
Not only was Doug Mastriano a ringleader – along with our former Congressman Scott Perry – in the attempt to overturn the 2020 results, but he does not hide the fact that one reason he’s seeking the Governor’s office is to be in a position to appoint a Secretary of State who will do his bidding and refuse to certify an electoral result he does not like. This is a dangerous man. He has no respect for democracy and seeks to install a MAGA dictatorship of “Christian Nationalism.”
Pennsylvanians need to resoundingly reject Mastriano to send a message to the nation and the world that we still believe in democracy.
Kevin McDonald