On John Joyce’s candidacy

Editor’s note: Beth Farnham has declared herself as a write-in candidate running against incumbent U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania’s 13th congressional district, John Joyce. The 13th congressional district covers all of Adams County.

John Joyce wants you to note his credentials.

John Joyce wants you to forget his hateful positions.

John Joyce wants you to keep ignoring his power.

As long as you admire his medical degree, or focus on the repulsive words of State Senator Douglas Mastriano, then you aren’t paying attention to Representative Joyce’s powerful votes in Congress.

Make no mistake, Representative Joyce’s votes not only affect Americans at a national level, they are lockstep with those of PA 10th U.S. House District Representative Scott Perry. Highlights of Joyce’s atrocious record include not certifying the valid election results that cast Joe Biden as President and signing the Texas amicus brief that sought to invalidate Pennsylvania votes, ironically for the election by which Joyce was re-elected to Congress. 

A recap of his votes can be found here: https://accountability.gop/profile/rep-john-joyce/

Backed by former President Donald Trump since 2018, Joyce’s despicable positions have always aligned with those of Trump, as well as those declared by Doug Mastriano, but John Joyce isn’t uppermost in people’s minds as elections near. In fact, most voters don’t even know they reside in District 13, much less who represents them.

Quite simply, John Joyce’s calculated silence works for your casual dismissal of him.

You’ve probably never thought about the fact that John Joyce hasn’t ever condemned the January 6th insurrection that violently interrupted our sacrosanct American voting process that day. He has never spoken against Trump’s insidious words and actions leading up to, and during the attack. He does not address nuances of rape, incest, or incompatibility with life of the fetus in his stance against abortion. Despite his medical degree, he only recognizes the exception of “life of the mother” for his religious reason alone. 

But we don’t have to accept John Joyce’s unopposed candidacy on the ballot for midterms 2022. We can remove him from Congress. I have lent my name to this purpose, but it takes your efforts, in addition to mine, to effect this change.

If you want to unseat John Joyce, you must do something differently. You must loudly exclaim in the silence. You must pick up a telephone, share across social media, write a letter to a publication about the write-in campaign of Beth Farnham to oppose John Joyce for Representative in Congress, 13th District.

My campaign page is here: Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District Democratic Choice

If enough voters write in my name, we will remove John Joyce from Congress. In his place, we will have one more vote for expanded voting rights, bodily autonomy, higher minimum wage, conservation efforts, public education, and other norms of our beloved American democracy outlined by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The DNC party planks are updated every four years and can be found here: https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/

Dare to proclaim the write-in Beth Farnham campaign in Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, Cambria, Blair, Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Huntingdon counties, as well as the western edge of Cumberland County. Make known there our choice for democracy and choice.

Or, hand over our democracy and bodily autonomy to Representative John Joyce because…he’ll quietly vote them away.