One of the great things about this cycle is the energy in a lot of places of the volunteers. We have seen people turn out that have never turned out before. However, another big thing is the energy of a candidate. This is especially true in PA Senate District 44.
John Rafferty is a hack’s hack. He is the state senator of SD-44 in Pennsylvania. He is great at playing the “independent” and “moderate” every four years, but essentially just goes along with the Republicans he caucuses with. Rafferty has the annoying habit of supporting bills and then in the last minute voting, no. He enjoys a gerrymandered district, so he went out of his way to pretend he was on board with a fair districts bill, then of course he saluted and took orders from the state party to go against it. Yet, he got the credit for his “moderation” and “independence” by stringing people along. The state Republican Party in PA is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the far right who like to use blue Southeast PA like their personal ATMs for pork barrel projects in their part of the state. It makes literally no sense for anyone to vote Republican in Southeast PA, no matter how “independent” the local Republicans claim to be.
The state of Pennsylvania dodged a bullet when Rafferty lost to Josh Shapiro in 2016 in the race to be state Attorney General. Anyone who watched that harrowing press conference where Shapiro laid out very compassionately the crimes against children yesterday by priests of the Catholic Church in PA has to be very thankful we didn’t send a total hack like Rafferty to that position.
We have a chance to retire this hack for good! The most energetic candidate in PA this year has to be Katie Muth running as a Democrat for the 44th. She and her “army” have knocked over 40,000 doors by early August. This is even before the REAL campaign starts at Labor Day.
Muth has a great story to tell about her life and the chances she got from government while living in a working class neighborhood with a single parent and has worked as an adjunct professor. She was featured on NBC national news for women that have suffered sexual violence and harassment who are now running for office as part of the #MeToo movement:
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I would urge all Kossacks to take a look at her page:
Katie Much for PA Senate
She has broken every goal set for her for voter contacts, and she and her “army” are just getting started. She is working with a coordinated campaign in Montgomery County and a number of PA State House districts that can flip as well to put the final nail in the coffin of the PA Republican Party in Southeast PA.
So if you are worried, you will indeed get your money’s worth out of her campaign:
ACT BLUE - KATIE MUTH