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I just want to outline why I& #39;m voting for @SummerForPA and against @Chris_RolandPA for PA 34th District. tl;dr - I believe Summer will help those who need it most in the district and the state, and Chris will only help those who have the deepest pockets.
When I look at who is running for a race, I try to take into account both who they are and what they have done. I& #39;ve already looked into Summer Lee, and I& #39;m happy with the work she& #39;s already put in and what she wants to do in the future. She& #39;s also a really good speaker.
I believe she is a deliberative person, she looks at the law and the pending bills, and tries to fix what is broken. She listens when folks say "this is a problem" or "this is a half-measure, do more". She& #39;s also worked to bring light to injustices for the downtrodden.
I& #39;d be thrilled to have her as my rep again. When I heard she had a challenger, I wondered who was this person, and why is he running against her? The first I heard of Chris Roland was that Fitzgerald was backing him. That... put some of my hackles up.
I& #39;ve disliked how he often puts jobs above anything else, even when getting those jobs is a net loss to the community, the environment, and to frankly the balance sheet at the end of the day. (I& #39;m looking at you, Amazon - that deal would have been horrible for us.)
I& #39;d also heard that Roland was going to be for the fracking down at the steel mill in Braddock, although that seems to have evaporated since. I can& #39;t find anything to back that up, so it& #39;s possible he was advised against that stance, or the internet lied to me.
So I said what does he actually have listed as issues, and the first iteration I found was I swear copy-pasta from Summer& #39;s page. Like, it was embarassing how close it was. It& #39;s a bit different now, but the issues really aren& #39;t that far apart, so again I thought, why this guy?
And then the push poll showed up. They called and called and called and okay fine, five calls in a half hour. Answered and it started off with some softball questions on presidential race, issues, then got into Summer/Chris competition.
It was horrible! It just started by lying and went on and on till we hung up and said what the fork was that? I thought, maybe someone on the campaign thought this was a good idea, and really running a negative campaign like that isn& #39;t good. Then it got worse.
The mailers. Oh, the mailers. We& #39;ve gotten non-stop ones from him, and they are uniformly "I am good, and she& #39;s BAD no really, look it up, but take my word for it - BAD." And it was all lies, a la Obi-Wan Kenobi "from a certain point of view" lies.
All I can think is, if the person who approved this, who has slung such mud against another person, is going to be my representative in the government? HOW can I trust him? HOW? If he& #39;s lying NOW, before he has power to affect me? How will he perform when he& #39;s making the laws?
So, as I started this thread - I am voting FOR Summer Lee, and VERY MUCH against Chris Roland. I want him to lose, and I want him to take a hard look at himself and what he is doing here, and back the HELL away from ever doing this again.
