Russian Roulette Pt 11 – Pay-To-Play PA GOP Endorsements!

Just when I thought this series may have come to an end, numerous articles have been posted, including by PoliticsPA, PennLive, and Times Tribune (just to name a few), that Dave McCormick’s Political Action Committee (PAC) – Pennsylvania Rising – paid the PA State Republican Committee $50,000 just three weeks before the state committee vote to endorse him (and no, the endorsement vote was NOT unanimous).

But nothing to see here, right?

While Allegheny County GOP Chair Sam DeMarco contends that the donation had absolutely nothing to do with McCormick’s endorsement and such was just to assist with the PA GOP “mail-in and absentee ballot program”, such is directly at odds with what some state committee members have reported. Specifically, several in attendance at the state committee meeting, on the eve of the vote, reported being strong-armed to change their no vote to a yes vote, based on the donation, and other county chairs were promised nice donations to their county GOPs for a yes vote.

So, what’s the truth? While I may have been born at night, it wasn’t last night. Clearly, the donation was intended to grease the wheels. I mean, why else did the PA GOP, knowing that there would be “no” votes, rehearse for that eventuality and have a plan to run a second vote, immediately after the first, during which the “no” votes would have absolutely no time to vote “no”, so that the PA GOP and Dave McCormick – himself – could unethically and immorally contend that he was unanimously endorsed?

And people wonder why the PA GOP is so fractured and cannot win elections… It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that, as I’ve espoused a number of times, we need a real leader to step forward, end the shenanigans (including pay-to-play schemes), work towards eliminating the divisiveness by listening to the grievances and mediating them, and thereafter develop a plan to unite the Party. The first step would be planning a 67 day, 67 county listening tour, as there is no time to lose, with the 2024 election cycle on our doorstep…unless, we’ve been infiltrated by the Democratic Party and the intent is for us to either lose the upcoming elections or if inadvertently successful, to have candidates who can be controlled by the Democratic puppet masters

6 thoughts on “Russian Roulette Pt 11 – Pay-To-Play PA GOP Endorsements!

  1. Exactly!!! Democrat PA Governor + Corrupted   PA GOP = PA is controlled by leftist elites, therefore no need to rig PA elections.   btw, I’ve suspected this about GOP for several years.

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  2. The #Uniparty #EstablishmentSwamp. Always easier to be the loser Party so that way, you don’t have to deliver on the needed common-sense conservative legislation and can claim that those “horrible Democrats” and their Democrat governor won’t pass and sign your noble initiatives.

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  3. The PA state party sucks. From where I’m sitting, they’ve done absolutely nothing to correct the bogus mail in election fiasco That occurred in 2020. That doesn’t portend good things For this year or 2024.

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