Tag: Pennsylvania Republicans

Pennsylvania GOP Reveals Bomb and Death Threats Against Party Offices, Officials, and Their Families

Tom Pappert
Lawrence Tabas

The Pennsylvania Republican Party (PAGOP) on Saturday issued a statement confirming the Montgomery County GOP offices were evacuated over the weekend due to a bomb threat, adding that it is the latest in a series of threats levied at Republican officials and their families ahead of Election Day.

A PAGOP statement posted to the social media platform X confirmed the Montgomery County Republican Committee Headquarters evacuated on Saturday after a staff member received a phone call, during which the party stated, “the caller communicated an angry, profanity-laced bomb threat.”

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Pennsylvania Senate Democrats Dismiss ‘Distasteful Tweets’ Allegedly by State Sen. Jimmy Dillon, Who Blamed Basketball Players He Coached

Tom Pappert
Jimmy Dillon

The Pennsylvania Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (PA DSCC) on Wednesday defended Senator Jimmy Dillon after Republicans accused him of authoring racist and homophobic posts to the social media platform now known as X, but then known as Twitter, between 2011 and 2015.

Dillon is accused by the Pennsylvania Republican Senate Campaign Committtee (PA RSCC) of authoring posts published by a now-deleted account associated with the Hoops 24-7 Basketball Academy the senator continues to direct, including posts that used slurs targeting black people and made derisive comments about gay and Asian people.

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Pennsylvania Republicans Demand Fetterman Either Appear on Camera or Else Resign

Just the News

A group of Pennsylvania Republicans are demanding that Democratic Sen. John Fetterman either appear on camera and demonstrate he is still capable of doing his job or, failing that, that he resign from his federal office. 

Fetterman has been hospitalized for nearly two weeks due to reported clinical depression; little is known about his status as an inpatient at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, though his staff said on Monday that he is “on a path to recovery.”

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Pennsylvania Republicans Want to Create a New Bureau of Election Audits

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Pennsylvania Capitol Building

Pennsylvania Republicans want to create a new Bureau of Election Audits to conduct result-confirming audits of every election, as well as performance audits of elections operations, systems and processes at least every five years.

House Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster, laid out the legislation during a hearing in the General Assembly’s State Government Committee this week, arguing the current system of allowing county election offices to audit themselves is not sufficient.

Local election officials “must be held to a standard of accountability,” Cutler said.

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Pennsylvania Republicans Blast Wolf Administration’s Role in Private Election Grant Process

The Center Square
Tom Wolf

Legislative Republicans excoriated Gov. Tom Wolf for “playing favorites” after a report concluded his administration helped only Democratic counties secure $21 million in private grants ahead of the 2020 election.

Broad + Liberty reported the Pennsylvania Department of State and various left-wing groups worked together to funnel private grant funding to Democratic-leaning counties without offering the same assistance to Republican-leaning counties. 

“This latest report indicates the administration and the Department of State played favorites when they connected certain counties to large sums of grant funding while ignoring other counties,” Rep. Seth Grove, R-York, said. “Not only did this create unequal access to voters, but it also essentially disenfranchised voters in counties that did not receive equal funding.” 

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Biden Attempts to Kick Trump Appointees Off Service-Academy Boards; Pennsylvania GOP Silent So Far

Bradley Vasoli

President Joe Biden’s decision to fire 18 of his predecessor Donald Trump’s appointees to the advisory boards of U.S. service academies has so far elicited no comment from Pennsylvania’s Republican Party.

On Thursday, The Star News Network contacted the Pennsylvania GOP, the office of Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and the offices of each Republican member of Congress from Pennsylvania asking for their response to the action the White House took the day before. At this writing, none have provided comment.

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