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rug

(82,333 posts)
2. Are you seeing the Gaughan-Tonkin signs or do you mean another county?
Mon May 18, 2015, 03:49 PM
May 2015

I'm enjoying this one because it's an all-out intramural war in the republican primary. The Pike County Democrats are running no one for DA (again).

madamvlb

(495 posts)
3. Yes, Gaughan-Tonkin signs. Kelley Gaughans signs far outnumber Tonkins signs. At the elementary
Mon May 18, 2015, 05:51 PM
May 2015

school this morning I couldn't count how many cars had door magnets for her. It's really unbelievable. Why isn't a democrat running, any ideas?

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
4. I can't put my finger on it. It many ways it's moribund.
Mon May 18, 2015, 06:57 PM
May 2015

My wife is the County committeewoman (yes, that's the title) from Milford Boro. Again there was no candidate so I wrote her name in. She got on with one vote.

Although Pike is seen as a republican county. Democrats actually outnumber them by registration but turn out in far less numbers.

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying this race. It's tearing the county republicans in half.

Did you see the sign the Tonkin campaign put up? It's got the Obama logo with the words "Obama for District Attorney. Paid for by Friends of Ray Tonkin." You've got the incumbent republican running a tea party campaign against a republican challenger.

Are you from Wayne or Monroe?

madamvlb

(495 posts)
5. I live in Pike.
Tue May 19, 2015, 08:10 AM
May 2015

I used to live in the borough but moved up the hill! I now live in Dingman Township, although it's still considered Milford.

I haven't seen the Tonkin sign you referenced, where is it?

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
6. It's in Shohola just before the Barryville bridge, on the left.
Tue May 19, 2015, 09:35 AM
May 2015

We should start a DU 18337 Group.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
8. Gaughan won the republican primary 2166 to 1974 but Tonkin won the Democratic line with write-ins.
Wed May 20, 2015, 12:31 AM
May 2015

All he needed was 100 write-ins, the number needed to get on the primary ballot, and have more write-ins than Gaughan.

I doubt he'll run on the Democratic line even though he's the incumbent. But I'll be damned if I ever vote for that Corbett-loving, Wolf-hating, death penalty-mongering piece of shit.

madamvlb

(495 posts)
9. On my last post I stated that there were lots of people out voting....
Wed May 20, 2015, 07:58 AM
May 2015

I was wrong. It's just that every time I vote in the primaries the place is empty. Yesterday it seemed so alive, but it wasn't the voters. The candidates family and friends made it look like the parking lot was full.



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