Heading to the garage to do Karate right now!
The fix is in in PA for 2024:
Ex-Philadelphia official picked for key elections post
A former Philadelphia election official who has told of enduring death threats for defending the city's 2020 vote-counting against former President Donald Trump's lies will be nominated for the top election administration post in Pennsylvania by the incoming Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro.
Al Schmidt's coming nomination to be secretary of state, announced Thursday by Shapiro, sets him up to oversee what is expected to be a hard-fought 2024 election in the critical presidential battleground. Schmidt is Shapiro's first Cabinet selection to be revealed ahead of his Jan. 17 inauguration.
Protecting elections and voting rights was central to Shapiro's campaign, as he emphasized his intention to nominate a “pro-Democracy” secretary of state and his role, as attorney general, in fighting efforts in court by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
“Al Schmidt has a proven track record of defending our democracy, protecting voting rights and standing up to extremism — even in the face of grave threats," Shapiro said in a statement.
Schmidt, 51, is a Republican, fitting in with Shapiro's theme of fashioning a bipartisan administration in politically divided Pennsylvania.
Schmidt is president and CEO of the Committee of Seventy, a good-government group in Philadelphia. Before he joined the group a year ago, Schmidt spent a decade as a Republican elected to the three-member board that oversees elections in Philadelphia.
On Friday, the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Schmidt will be among 12 people to receive the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Joe Biden in a ceremony at the White House. This is the first time Biden has given the medal, the nation’s second-highest civilian award.
“During the 2020 election, he kept the vote tally going in the face of pressure and efforts to overturn the election,” the White House said.
Holding the post of secretary of state is subject to confirmation in the Republican-controlled Senate.
The $165,000-salary job involves overseeing how the state's 67 counties run their elections, giving them guidance and assistance on how to manage it — a task that has grown in complexity with the advent of the state's no-excuse mail-in voting law and conspiracy theorists inspired by Trump's lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
The department also administers a long list of professional licensing commissions that report to the department.
In 2020, Schmidt became the face of Philadelphia's protracted vote count when Trump and his campaign repeatedly claimed that “bad things happen in Philadelphia” and spread lies to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the election in the heavily Democratic city.
With help from Philadelphia, Trump lost Pennsylvania to Biden.
Few, if any, Republicans came to Schmidt's defense during a time when he has said he received Trump-inspired death threats against him and his family that he has called “domestic terrorism.” Rather, the state Republican Party and most state GOP lawmakers sought to stop Pennsylvania's electoral votes from being awarded to Biden.
No lawsuit, prosecutor or election worker has produced evidence of widespread fraud in Philadelphia's 2020 election.
In the wake of the election, Schmidt testified in front of a U.S. Senate committee and the congressional commit
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-philadelphia-official-picked-key-002843511.html
Twelve swans a-milking
That driver in the left lane, doing 5mph less than the speed limit, leading a mile long line of traffic behind him/her because he/she is riding right beside a transfer truck and will not pass it.
AQpost would be timely right now.
I couldn't have said it any better muhself.
She outed herself 2 years ago voting against protecting kids. She's on the list with McConnell, Ryan, Crenshaw, et al. Add MTG to the list too if you didn't have her there already.
I recall that and she had some lame excuse about how she vetoed it for some supposed "good" reason that would actually benefit girls sports.
And I'm pretty sure the Speaker brings forth any impeachment hearings/votes/etc.