Originally Posted by
Lee Chowaniec
An intriguing post and I will tell you why.
Coincidently, I received two phone calls today from old geezers like me, vested in Lancaster politics for decades asking whether I knew who Blunt was, and discussing in length that this was the most convoluted, dishonest, and colluded primary elections they ever experienced. With the deal-making and misguided campaign mailer submittals they are at ends trying to determine who the guys in white hats are and deserving of their vote. Who is most committed to their self-serving agendas / interests or that of the community’s?
As to Sojka being Blunt, not from what I am being told and from the language in the postings. Sojka and I were on opposite sides on the Legend name change and on the school board election candidates and resulting elections, and other. Over a two-year period we exchanged numerous acerbic posts where he used his real name and his writing style was different from Blunt’s – IMHO.
As to your reference to Dickman’s weak conservative stance and voting record in his early days on the board, I thought the same. It wasn’t until Leary was elected to the board that he became more vocal in questioning board proposals and voting in opposition to a board now under the control of a Democrat Supervisor who openly declared, “I have the votes.” The board under Supervisor Coleman was more diverse and more in harmony.
Your post indicates your being a Republican Party committeeman. I must question the following:
As the Republican Party committee candidate interviewing meeting was held on zoom, I witnessed the interviewing of all candidates for endorsement. I thought it was enlightening to really hear what the candidates stood for and some of the outrageous statements made by them in the process to get the endorsement.. So, I ask whether you were pleased with the outcome – where two incumbents were not endorsed, but where two candidates were endorsed who are not Republicans and are endorsed by the Democratic and Working Family Party - the polar-opposite of Republican Party ideology?
Speaking on what is said at committee meetings, did Chair Smith say at a later meeting that he was not completely satisfied with the party’s endorsement outcome, but with the Dems and Reps colluding to cross endorse they could take the summer off and then concentrate on the Supervisor race in two years?
This has pissed-off many independents and ‘blanks’ that can’t vote in the primary. The REPDEMS have colluded to take our voice away in the November election. Unless the endorsed conservative candidate primarying the endorsed Republican candidate wins, the hope for choice is nil. And the Dems and Reps have done everything possible to kill off the conservatives, including carrying petitions for candidates opposing the endorsed conservative candidates, challenging the authentication of the conservative candidate petitions, and even pursuing legal action. Are you okay with the machinations executed by even your own party?
If the colluded REPDEM candidates secure all political lines for the November election, it will be the first time in 60+ years that I will have failed to vote in any federal, state, local election. Enough is enough!
A lifelong ‘blank’ for obvious reasons. With rare exception, all politicos suck – more so today than ever before!!