Barry Goldwater threatened nuclear war, but he had no chance. Polling is in favor of Josh Shapiro but Hillary Clinton was favored in polls. Doug Mastriano as governor of Pennsylvania is the most frightening thing I have come across in 58 years of voting.

There were no bridges across the Susquehanna during the Civil War. Lancaster PA developed as a Northern city. York, PA developed as a Southern city. 

In my 79 years I’ve lived both on the Union side & the Confederate side of the Susquehanna. One summer in 1965 I lived in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania in York County. On the Mason Dixon Line, Stewartstown was a Southern Town. I lived in York, PA & worked in Hanover PA. 

Back then former German soldiers I knew would say Hitler was a bad guy but put people back to work. 

TWENTY YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR II A LOT OF MY TEACHERS WERE WORLD WAR II VETERANS. NOBODY SAID HITLER & NAZIS WERE GREAT! 

NOW IN 2022 MANY REPUBLICANS WANT THE FASCISTS OF WORLD WAR II BACK & WORSHIP NAZIS!

My Uncle Fred was a Army Combat Engineer. He landed
on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Fred is 2nd from right. 

There are lots of people on the Confederate side of Pennsylvania and many in small areas of Pennsylvania who will vote for Mastriano because of his Nazi level antisemitism. 

At an SPLC meeting at Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia Richard Cohen showed a slide. On one side was a man with a swastika tattoo on his forehead. The other side a man with a white shirt & tie. Mr. Cohen said the man with the white shirt & tie is the dangerous one. 

Nazis that hide their beliefs to gain political office are the dangerous kind. They can win elections & gain power. A Nazi Pennsylvania is imaginable under a governor Mastriano.

“You have a candidate who is Jewish, an observant Jewish candidate, who puts his observance and his faith in his campaign ads,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League. “And then you have someone who associates with unapologetic, unabashed antisemites running against him...”

"This summer, Mr. Mastriano’s campaign came under scrutiny for paying $5,000 to the far-right social media platform Gab. The man accused of perpetrating the Pittsburgh shooting had posted antisemitic screeds on Gab, and Mr. Mastriano’s payment drew bipartisan condemnation. The platform’s founder, Andrew Torba, defended Mr. Mastriano and declared that “we’re not bending the knee to the 2 percent anymore,” an apparent reference to American Jewry."

"Mr. Mastriano has also spread the lie that George Soros, a Holocaust survivor and liberal billionaire often vilified on the right, was a Nazi collaborator."

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The New York Times

Mastriano’s Attacks on Jewish School Set Off Outcry Over Antisemitic Signaling

The G.O.P. candidate for governor, who promotes Christian power and disdains separation of church and state, is alarming Jewish voters in his contest with the Democratic candidate, Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish.

By Katie Glueck

Oct. 10, 2022