Okay, I checked this out and it appears legit. BOOM: Write-in Tea Party Candidate Smashes Establishment GOP and Democrat Candidates Guest post by Erich Pratt, Gun Owners of America [And yes, it's a right-win blog!] It goes on to relate how the GOP establishment is out to wipe out the Tea Party. Read the full piece @ http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2014/03/boom-write-in-tea-party-candidate.html I have a gut feeling this is not going to be an isolated incident. Americans are getting fed up with establishment politicians and are seeking alternatives.
Isn't this the primaries and not the actual election, and if so he is not running against the Dem. Tea Party candidates are not doing well across the Nation, the voters see what voting them into high office gets them, Government Shutdowns and a stalled government.
York County Senate race: GOP write-in Scott Wagner not interested in blowing up the system, he says Democratic candidate Scott Wagner talks with the South Central York County Senior Center executive director Sandra Wehr during a visit to the center during a campaign stop on Wednesday. (Jan Murphy/Pennlive) By Jan Murphy | jmurphy@pennlive.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on March 13, 2014 at 2:40 PM, updated March 15, 2014 at 9:17 AM View/Post Comments This is the second installment of a three-part series on the candidates involved in Tuesday's special election to fill the 28th state senatorial district seat representing the central portion of York County. Here is the profile of GOP endorsed candidate Ron Miller and click here for one on Democratic candidate Linda Small. NEW FREEDOM – Scott Wagner walked into the lion’s den looking for votes to support his quest in Tuesday’s special election in York County to become an independent voice in Harrisburg. He seemed unconcerned that the South Central York County Senior Center, where he was campaigning for the 28th state senatorial district seat that is up for grabs, happens to be in the town where his Democratic opponent Linda Small lives. It also didn’t matter that Small’s mother is a member at the center and his GOP-endorsed rival Ron Miller, who stops by there three to four times a year, is regarded as a friend. Rather he came convinced that some of the seniors there share his frustration with what he described as Miller’s “go-along-to-get-along” and special interest-influenced style of legislating that he has demonstrated in the state House. The 58-year-old president and owner of York-based trash hauler Penn Waste and KBS Trucking in Thomasville also thinks the seniors want more than the skill set that his Democratic opponent would bring to the table. Wagner unabashedly believes his business experience and conservative views makes him superior to either of his opponents. But Sandra Wehr, the center’s executive director, said before his arrival she had no intention of letting his enthusiasm for himself denigrate into a bash session on his opponents when talking to her members. “I like political discussions to be about them, not what they don’t like in the other person,” she said, picking up one of Wagner’s campaign mailer attacking Miller. “In here, if you want to turn somebody off, start talking about the other person.” She gently made her point to Wagner before leading him to a large room where 15 seniors were getting ready for a line-dancing class. “I want you to tell them about you,” Wehr said, at least twice. Candidate Scott Wagner Scott Wagner is a GOP write-in candidate in the March 18 special election for the 28th senatorial district seat. Wagner, of Spring Garden Twp., began his pitch with a basic introduction. “I’m Scott Wagner,” he said to the seniors he was holding up from line dancing. “I’m a businessman. I’m not a politician.” He stuck with telling his personal story of growing up in York County and his parents in their 80s and their herd of horses. He went on to say that his business allows him to see the everyday struggles that people are facing as a result of a bloated, oversized state government. It has opened his eyes, he said, to their inability to find good-paying jobs while being asked to sacrifice for the benefit of some in government. Holding up one of his mailers listing the names of former lawmakers collecting six-figure yearly pensions, he singled out 37-year former state House member Frank Oliver from Philadelphia, who collects a $23,000-plus a month pension. “To think that somebody worked in government system and they are getting a pension of $286,000 a year is outrageous to me,” Wagner said. He went on to comment about lawmakers being too cozy with special interests and how they let the state pension systems swing from being $15 billion in the black in 2001 to $47 billion hole in the red in 2014. Wagner complained about having way too many legislative staffers, property taxes being out of hand and government trying to take care of too many people. And he repeatedly recited his mantra: “Harrisburg doesn’t have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem.” His talk offered up few solutions to those problems. He said he favored eliminating school property taxes and making up for that lost revenue by taxing food and clothing. He would limit his contacts with special interest groups and refuse their dinner and cocktail party invitations. And he vowed he would not accept a pension and, unlike the career politicians in Harrisburg, would only stay for no more than two four-year terms. “I’m not someone who is standing here telling you I know every answer,” Wagner said. “But I’ve been in business over 35 years. I look at the numbers and I know what’s right and wrong. We have a very bad system in Harrisburg.” One of the women asked, if elected, what he could do “when there’s so many people here against you or against what you are trying to do" Wagner responded, “What makes me different is I have backbone. I have a reputation and I have character. I know the difference between right and wrong.” He also shared his intention is not to “blow up the system.” However, he said Senate Republican leaders “are scared of me.” He isn’t afraid of them. He said if elected and Senate GOP leaders put his senatorial office in the Capitol basement, “I’m going to rent an office across the street from the Capitol. I’m going to pay for it myself. And if they cut off funding to my office and I don’t have the money to pay for people, I’m going to pay for them out of my own pocket.” He said Harrisburg rarely sees the likes of someone like him, someone with financial means to be a maverick, although he added, “I’m not a rich guy by a long shot.” It’s not Wagner’s money that is causing Richard Allison of Shrewsbury to lean toward voting for him. “We need a change,” he said. “A change from Ron Miller and the old-boy thing.” Beverly Rice of Windsor Twp., a registered independent, said she didn’t know who she was voting for. Nothing that any of the candidates have said has resonated with her mostly because “no matter what they say, they never follow through.” Another senior, who declined to give her name, said the Senate race has polarized residents in the senatorial district, which is why she is afraid to say publicly who she would support. “Someone said as good as some of these people are, what have they really accomplished,” she said. “Then others say better the devil you know than the one you don’t.” View/Post Comments Related Stories http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/03/york_county_senate_race_gop_wr.html Yeah This is what happens when you get news from a personal blog.
Good for him, but if you think the state senate race in a heavily conservative county is a bellwether for the 2014 elections you are reading too much into it. Especially considering the 22,000 voter turnout. 183,000 turned out for the 2012 election, which went for Mitt Romney. This guy probably doesn't win if this election is held in November, and certainly doesn't if it is held in 2016. In the small chance that this is the start of a Tea Party tidal wave, then it is almost certainly good news for the Democrats. A Tea Party win in the senate elections of Iowa, North Carolina, and Alaska would be a huge boost for the Democrats chances of holding the Senate.
