who was recently installed as the head of the city's long-time watchdog organization - "Committee of 70" (the position had been vacated by long-time head David Thornburgh, son of the former Governor and U.S. Attorney General), was not buying the bullshit "Big Lie®".
Schmidt was an absolute trooper who was continually pummeled with death threats as the GOP loons viciously attacked the voting and counting here in Philly, despite the fact that the final count process was being live-streamed the entire week, 24/7.
When Mastriano, a big subject of the J6 Committee investigation, and now running for Governor here against (D) Josh Shapiro, demanded that Philly hand over not only voting equipment, but PII from every voter here per his subpoena, everyone knew that would be fucking no-go -
Link to tweet
@Commish_Schmidt
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Jul 30, 2021
Moments ago, I voted to reject Senator Mastriano’s request that Philadelphia give him our election equipment. The Board of Elections’ decision was unanimous.
Al Schmidt
@Commish_Schmidt
The 2020 General Election was already audited - twice. What Mastriano is requesting isn’t an actual audit at all, nor does it address his complaints which are about election procedures/decisions by the PA Supreme Court and PA Department of State.
12:00 PM · Jul 30, 2021
He testified at a Senate hearing about the events of the 2020 election last year -
Link to tweet
@Commish_Schmidt
“This is domestic terrorism. The whole point is to terrorize, to intimidate, and to coerce, and to prevent our democracy from functioning as it should. In my case, this happened in the city where our democracy first began.” My testimony to the US Senate:
3:22 PM · Oct 27, 2021
And he got a personal attack from 45 that became the last straw. The Philly Mag article at that link is as informative as it is sad.
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