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York (PA) Dispatch: Doug Mastriano Running on a platform of deceit
York Dispatch
York Dispatch editorial board
It’s ironic that Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is asking Pennsylvania residents for their votes, given how little value he places on them.
In fact, the second-term state senator is downright hostile to the concept of democracy, to judge from his words and deeds.
His efforts to subvert state voters’ will in the 2020 presidential election are already widely known. The parroting of Donald Trump’s lies that the election was stolen, the post-election tête-à-têtes with the president and his inner circle, the efforts to throw out election results and have stage legislators select Electoral College delegates, the contacts with the Justice Department, the Gettysburg “hearing”-slash-super spreader event, the busloads he led to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — none of these are the acts of someone who respects the will of voters.
Now comes word that, if successful in his Pennsylvania gubernatorial bid, he will attempt to force state residents to re-register to vote.
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York Dispatch editorial board
It’s ironic that Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is asking Pennsylvania residents for their votes, given how little value he places on them.
In fact, the second-term state senator is downright hostile to the concept of democracy, to judge from his words and deeds.
His efforts to subvert state voters’ will in the 2020 presidential election are already widely known. The parroting of Donald Trump’s lies that the election was stolen, the post-election tête-à-têtes with the president and his inner circle, the efforts to throw out election results and have stage legislators select Electoral College delegates, the contacts with the Justice Department, the Gettysburg “hearing”-slash-super spreader event, the busloads he led to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — none of these are the acts of someone who respects the will of voters.
Now comes word that, if successful in his Pennsylvania gubernatorial bid, he will attempt to force state residents to re-register to vote.
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