Senator Doug Mastriano is attempting today to get enough support to pass a resolution that would enable Pennsylvania to exercise their constitutional authority to seat the electors themselves and decide which electors to send to DC to vote for president. But enough of his colleagues need to support it in order for it to pass.
CALL THEM AND EMAIL!!! (PREFERABLY CALL). LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL. DEMAND THEY DO THIS. IF THEY DON'T, DEMAND TO KNOW WHY.
IF THEIR VOICEMAIL IS FULL, EMAIL THEM, AND THEN CALL BACK LATER.
PA senate:
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/contact.cfm?body=S
PA House of Representatives:
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/contact.cfm?body=H
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Doug Mastriano was on War Room this morning in case you missed it. The PA senate leadership was dragging their feet and Doug said we needed to contact the legislature:
https://youtu.be/hXQ4kDgjDiU?t=5786 (timestamp 1:36:20)
And remember: Even if the resolution is introduced and passes, enough republicans in both houses are going to have to flip to supporting Trump electors, not Biden. Remember how weak-kneed they are!
If you live outside Pennsylvania, you can still contact the Senate and House leadership:
Senate Pro Tem (republican): Jake Corman / (717) 787-1377 / (814) 355-0477 /
Senate Majority Leader (republican): Kim L. Ward / (717) 787-6063 / (724) 600-7002 /
Speaker of the House of Reps (republican): Bryan Cutler / (717) 284-1965 / (717) 783-6424 /
Majority leader of House of Reps (republican): Kerry A. Benninghoff / +1 (814) 355-1300 / (717) 783-1918 /
Ignoring the rest of your comment, where are you reading from? Here's the resolution I see:
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/CSM/showMemoPublic.cfm?chamber=S&SPick=20190&cosponId=32629&mobile_choice=suppress
I'll compare versions to the one I have.
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/CSM/showMemoPublic.cfm?chamber=H&SPick=20190&cosponId=32628&mobile_choice=suppress
Ahh The One I was referencing was from 12:50 pm about 7 hrs earlier than the version you linked!
What do you know, some signals might be getting through the noise!! :) *HUGS *HUGS *HUGS
Yes, they did update it I heard. 🙂
To be clear, you are correct that the current state legislature is not beholden to the previous state legislature, in terms of their authority under Article two clause 1 section 2. I actually agree with you that no previous law enacted by previous legislatures can ever supersede that. But the previous rules, having been decided upon by the state legislature, are nevertheless valid at present. But they can absolutely be overridden if the present legislature so chooses. That's my interpretation of the situation. They would obviously need a majority of both senators and reps to go along.
By the way, now that you know they have an improved resolution, you might consider editing some of your previous comments.
As a sidenote, one thing that confuses me about the new resolution is this, in the last section:
Why is that even in there? Congress has no authority (I would think) to not recognize electors that are lawfully selected by the PA legislature under article 2 clause 1 section 2.
I just editied my top comment in this thread&post(and in the other thread&post that has the House version) with updated edition and both links. I noticed the other Post OP had the PA House working version which I linked you from 12:50pm lunchtime, and your link is the newer PA Senate working version from 7:33pm. So technically, the House version is still as that original comment thread from 8 hours ago reflects. But I updated with links. https://thedonald.win/p/11QSCNVwLw/x/c/4DpL5u65cNJ
As to the last section of the Senate version atm, as you noted it's rather peculuar, and that's well... this is where things start to get tricky and politically (very) dirty and the Dems will play very very dirty on this. Without double checking, what happens most of the time, is State's will have selected their "SLATES" of DEM & REPUBLICAN Electors before the Election Day; and which SLATE is a matter of going through "the process" like Elections, Sec of State, "certifications" etc. So what the Dems do to cheat (as they do say in CA to steal 2018 House congressional seats); they get their "certifications" stamped and say they're legit, and only congress can say they aren't legit (as per the Constitution saying "judging the qualifications of it's members" and accepting the results.
So here the DEMS will have their Sec of State's say the DEM SLATE is the "chosen/appointed" ones, and the DEM's Electors will vote as if they are legit; and there will be two sets of Electors and vote totals, which of course either a court(State or SCOTUS) or congress will have to sort out which SLATE is legit to count their votes or not.
(spez So putting this last section in there,) While this seems like a good idea, or lawyers/politicians "playing it safe" or "covering their bases" it really again like in that previous comment, gives spineless courts/judges/legislatures a way out. In the short-term, it can be used to muster up enough Legislatures to have quarum and get agreement; AND it REALLY helps that it's saying they WILL have a separate "CLEAN RESOLUTION" of just the Electors as I mentioned (excellent for all kinds of reasons).
So hopefully with a bit more elbow grease in the next 12-48-72 hours, the Resolutions will continue to be cleaned up, and the House & Senate versions will match in a clean, simple form. Right now they both read like a legal lawsuit outline, but to think of it this way. most each "action" on the outline, should in a way be it's own separate bullet. Like "we the PA Legislature, hereby remove any power delagated to the Sec of State in the Elector Process" just fire that shot off. and keep firing each bullet point off as separate Resolutions once they're all assembled, so there's no entanglements or cross-contamination of legal defenses. (Like making a swarm of baby Krakens!)
Love your energy!
Yes, ok. The good news is, in my post, I simply called for people to support sentator Mastriano's resolution. I never said which, nor provided a link, until much later when I saw the new one, so it shouldn't have any effect on anyone who called or emailed. When I called I just said, "support Senator Mastriano's resolution to seat the electors yourselves".
By the way, that edit at the bottom of your top comment is going to be missed by a lot of people. You may already know this, but if you add two of these:
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on each side of the text, you'll get a crossout, like this:
TEXT HERE... etc. etc.I would add that too.
Yeah but if they are swamped by the majority of the legislature approving Trump electors, what is their recourse? It doesn't matter what the political hack secretary of state says. Article 2 clause 1 section 2.
Will there? The majority of the legislature decides who to send I thought. It doesn't matter what a minority of them vote for.