Originally Posted by
Lee Chowaniec
Lancaster Conservative Party Committee
June 20, 2019
Dear Fellow Conservative:
Once again, the Lancaster Conservative Party is under attack. The threat comes from a familiar source, the Erie County Democratic Party. The Lancaster Conservative Party doesn’t endorse candidates based on their political party. Instead we support candidates who share our values of lower taxes, smaller government and professionalism. We only endorse candidates who meet our high standards.
The candidates who earned our endorsement are; Frank J. Todaro for Erie County Legislator, Dawn C. Gaczewski for Town Supervisor, Bruce E. Stutz and Robert E. Leary for Town Council and Diane Terranova for Town Clerk. The Erie County Democratic Party has sponsored and supported two slates of Phantom Conservative Candidates in a desperate attempt to trick Lancaster Conservative Voters. The evidence is clear that Democratic Headquarters is behind this underhanded effort to steal the Conservative Party Line.
FACT: The same Democratic political operative filed both sets of petitions at the Erie County Board of Elections. Campaign finance records show that this person has received money from the Erie County Democratic Committee.
FACT: Most of the petition signatures for these phantom candidates were collected by Notaries or Commissioners of Deeds who work for the Erie County Democratic Chairman. They work for him at Democratic HQ or the Board of Elections, where he is also the Democratic Commissioner.
FACT: The Phantom Conservative Candidates are not actively campaigning.
FACT: Democratic candidates we did not endorse are conducting a sneaky campaign to get Conservatives to write their name in on ballot.
It is sad that instead of running candidates that could earn our endorsement, the Democratic Party Chairman stoops to this level of political mischief. He hopes to fool Conservative voters, win a Write-In Primary for his candidates and then steal the Conservative Party line for the November general election. These underhanded political tricks have no place in Lancaster or the Conservative Party. We can’t let that happen.
The Lancaster Conservative Party has proudly endorsed Frank J. Todaro for Erie County Legislator, Dawn C. Gaczewski for Town Supervisor, Bruce E. Stutz and Robert E. Leary for Town Council and Diane Terranova for Town Clerk. They earned our support by being as Conservative as we are!
Please join us in voting for Lancaster’s Endorsed Conservative Team in the June 25thConservative Primary. Your vote for the endorsed team will send a strong message that the Conservative Party line can’t be stolen by outsiders who don’t share our values.
Thank you.
Joseph Gallo - Second Vice Chairman Erie County Conservative Party
Deborah Lemaster - Chairwoman Lancaster Conservative Party
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