I'm not a member of the Democratic Party so I usually don't take sides in primary disputes.
But sometimes you just gotta, y'know?
Got a bit of campaign literature from Joanna Doven and it's targeting Bethany Hallam with the dreadline:
First off, let me ask you a framing question: What do you think when you read that?
That somehow Hallam was in league with and/or supported the Trump/Stone/Flynn coup attempt, right?
Says so right there. In big scary letters.
At least that's what you're supposed to think.
But you'd be wrong.
A little digging will show you how Doven's campaign chose to mislead you.
Across the page there's this:
And that leads us to the truth. If you were to google (an I suppose the Doven campaign is not counting on you to do this) "A Pennsylvania county delayed certifying the midterms..." you'll get to this article from Vox:
And it starts thusly:
More than a month after the midterm elections, Pennsylvania still hasn’t certified its results of the 2022 election. Recount requests are holding up a process that has been playing out in sometimes dramatic fashion at the county level — producing at least one scene that should set off alarm bells for anyone concerned about election deniers refining their strategy ahead of 2024. [Emphasis added]
Recount requests from whom? Seems that our friends in the "Stop the Steal" crowd flooded the courts with
recount requests. The Vox piece is a warning about how the election-deniers are looking to gum up the works in 2024.
This was November 20, 2022. The Court of Common Pleas
dismissed them on December 9.
Back to Vox a few weeks before that dismissal:
“How can we certify when we don’t know what the court is going to do?” Democratic County Councilperson At Large Bethany Hallam said at the meeting, prompting applause from the audience and cutting against the attorney’s advice. “I just don’t feel super comfortable jumping the gun ruling for the judge because that’s kind of what it feels like we’re doing.”
And Hallam?A bit too-careful-by-half, perhaps, but "sided with the insurrectionists?" Where? When? How?
The Doven campaign is misleading you (or at least hoping to mislead enough of you) into thinking that what happened in 2022 actually happened in 2020 and are looking for you to vote accordingly.
They don't trust you to dig for the truth and they're looking to benefit politically for it. In fact they're hoping that you don't - so that you don't unearth their dishonesty.
Joanna Doven should be better than that.
For the record, this is what happened about 2 years earlier in 2020:
The Allegheny County Board of Elections voted Monday to certify results of the Nov. 3 general election.
The vote was 2-1. Democrats Rich Fitzgerald and Bethany Hallam voted to certify, while Republican Sam DeMarco voted no.
Joanna Doven: Will lie to you to get your vote.
