PA GOP Starts Utilizing The Party Machine To Support Endorse Candidates.

Here we go folks. This is a firsthand look at party politics Soviet Politburo style. Oops! I mean Republican Party Of Pennsylvania style. I have already covered extensively in previous posts the deletion of comments either critical of the endorsement of candidates by state committee member or critical of the endorsed candidates themselves by PA GOP Facebook page administrator Mr. Glick.

Now my good friend David Baldinger, a taxpayer advocate and a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Coalition of Taxpayer Associations, has informed me that the PA GOP website under their candidates link is only highlighting candidates that were endorsed by state committee members this weekend. Information on the other GOP candidates running in the statewide races in this years Primary Election have been removed. Click Here to see the information provided by the PA GOP Website.

So now the PA GOP website is implying that we only have the "endorsed" candidates running for statewide offices. Where is information about State Representative Sam Rohrer campaign for Governor or pro life activist Peg Luksik's campaign for U.S. Senate? Nowhere to be found.

Now the next step the PA GOP party machine is focusing on is helping their "endorsed" candidates with getting petitions signed so they can get on the ballot. Below is part of an email that I got today from my local GOP county committee Chairman. The subject title of the email is petitions.

If you’re willing to circulate a petition for Pat Toomey for Senate please send an e-mail to Blair4Toomey@verizon.net By tomorrow, I should also have petitions for Tom Corbett for Governor, Jim Cawley for Lt. Governor and Bill Shuster for Congress. Other candidates for these offices should also be available soon as well as petitions for Rick Geist, Jerry Stern and Mike Fleck. We are planning a full committee meeting which will be open to the public that will focus on getting petition signatures. More info will follow.

Now I'm not criticizing the local committee Chairman here, but I am demonstrating just how the party machine works. Being the "endorsed" candidate by the party's state committee places candidates like Sam Rohere at a tremendous disadvantage. Most candidates struggle to fulfill the signature requirements to even get on the ballot and then end up dropping out as all the party resources go to support the "endorsed" candidates.

Now you see how political parties limit debate even within their own ranks and influence the outcome of elections. This is the type of politics that have gotten us to where we are at today. It is time to find a new way of ensuring that our liberty and freedoms given to us by our forefathers remain protected. Something that both political parties have no interest in doing.