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May 4, 2022

PA State Senator Doug Mastriano Sings The Golden Oldies!

From his Facebook Page:

A year and a half later, over 200 sworn affadvits from the 2020 election remain uninvestigated by the Attorney General and the State Department. They were brought to light during our hearing in Gettysburg.

And I take it the video is his 7 minute long statement is something of an introduction to the "hearing in Gettysburg."

In a comment to that video, I had a rather cheeky suggestion, that if Senator Mastriano has all this evidence of election shenanigans, he should reply to the subpoena the January 6 Committee sent him and bring all that evidence with him.

The event is even obliquely referenced in a footnote in that subpoena:

Based on publicly available information and information produced to the Select Committee, we believe that you have documents and information that are relevant to the Select Committee’s investigation. For example, we understand that you have knowledge of and participated in a plan to arrange for an alternate slate of electors to be presented to the President of the Senate on January 6, 2021,1 and we understand that you spoke with former President Trump about your post-election activities.2 We understand you participated in these activities based on assertions of voter fraud and other asserted irregularities and based on a stated belief that under the U.S. Constitution the “state legislature has the sole authority to direct the manner of selecting delegates to the Electoral College.” 3 We have an interest in understanding these activities and the theories that motivated them.

That second footnote leads here - a story about when Doug tested positive for Covid that day:

A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano had gone to the White House last Wednesday with like-minded Republican state lawmakers shortly after a four-hour-plus public meeting that Mastriano helped host in Gettysburg — maskless — to discuss efforts to overturn president-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state.

And the AP went on to describe Mastriano's "hearing" this way:

Mastriano sought the meeting of the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Policy Committee earlier Wednesday that drew Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, a second Trump lawyer, several witnesses and a crowd of onlookers. Only a few of them were masked.

The committee let Giuliani and others, for several hours, air their beliefs that there had been problems with how the Pennsylvania vote was conducted and counted. All claims were baseless; no evidence was presented to support any of the allegations they made.

Trump even participated, calling from the White House while one of his lawyers held a phone up to a microphone. He reiterated the same unfounded claims of fraud he’s been tweeting about for weeks.

So if Doug has actual evidence of fraud, he definitely should bring it to the attention of The Committee, shouldn't he?

The Committee is even planning on having televised hearings in June. So if Doug indeed has all this uninvestigated 200 affidavits worth of evidence, he definitely should to those televised hearings and tell the entire nation about them, shouldn't he?

It's the perfect solution, isn't it?

And BTW, if you watch the video, Doug publicly acknowledges Rep Scott Perry's presence at the "hearing" - the same Scott Perry who's now been shown to be deeply embedded in Trump's attempted coup:

Newly obtained text messages and recent court filings fill in significant gaps about the key role a little-known Pennsylvania Republican congressman played at almost every turn in scheming to reverse or delay certification of the 2020 election.

The texts, which were among those selectively provided by Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to the House select committee, show Rep. Scott Perry pushing to have the nation's top intelligence official investigate baseless conspiracy theories and working to replace the US acting attorney general with an acolyte willing to do Trump's bidding.
 
"From an Intel friend: DNI needs to task NSA to immediately seize and begin looking for international comms related to Dominion," Perry wrote to Meadows on November 12, just five days after the election was called for Joe Biden.
 
In the text, which has not been previously reported, Perry appears to be urging Meadows to get John Ratcliffe, then-Director of National Intelligence, to order the National Security Agency to investigate debunked claims that Dominion voting machines were hacked by China.
Yea, that Scott Perry. 

Doug, if you have all that evidence of voter fraud and The January 6 Committee subpoenaed you looking for what you know about the events leading up to the insurrection, why aren't you bringing it to their attention rather than whining on Facebook about being ignored?

You took an oath, Doug, to protect The Constitution. Man up and honor your oath.