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Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,144 posts)
Mon Jan 11, 2021, 08:04 PM Jan 2021

Anyone willing to write me a brief script for when I call my PA Sen. Comitta [View all]

to demand they seat Democrat Senator-elect Brewster?

Rs are such lying, cheating, thieving hypocrites that I find it hard to keep my cool on the phone. Even if it's leaving a voicemail, which I suspect it will be if I call tonight. This is why I don't make as many of of these sorts of calls as I should.

I'm not proud to admit this (though, if I were an R, I could probably get elected partly because of this lack of calm.) If I have a script I can read, I have a better chance of making the call and not sounding like a lunatic. (You know, some crazy person who is infuriated that Rs are supporting armed insurrection and other fascist moves.)

For those unfamiliar with the story (so many fasist moves by Rs, so little time):

While the eyes of the nation narrowed on Georgia, Republican senators in Pennsylvania snatched the session from the state’s lieutenant governor and blocked the swearing-in Tuesday of a duly-elected Democratic senator in what amounts to an insurrection that threatens American democracy and rule of law.

Despite state certification of the re-election of Sen. Jim Brewster of McKeesport, the Pennsylvania Senate refused Tuesday to swear him in with the other contestants who had won election.

All because of a federal court challenge by his electoral opponent in the razor-thin race.

Well, the race was razor thin, indeed. A mere 69 votes secured the election for Mr. Brewster. But, he won.

He won.

And he should have been sworn in with the two dozen other victors.

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2021/01/07/Senator-Brewster-should-have-been-seated-Pennsylvania/stories/202101070030

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