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Pa. electors get police protection: 'This is stupid'
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | December 17, 2016 | Angela Couloumbis and Karen Langley, the Harrisburg Bureau

Posted on 12/18/2016 9:43:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Facing a wave of calls, Pennsylvania electors sounding unshakable

Thousands of emails land in their inboxes every day. Copies of the Federalist Papers and other books urging political courage are being mailed to their homes. They are even getting phone calls in the middle of the night.

Such has been the life of Pennsylvania's 20 electors for President-elect Donald Trump since the Nov. 8 election.

On Monday, they will travel to the state Capitol to cast their votes to assign Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes to Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence during what has, in the past, been a ceremonial and largely unnoticed event.

Not this year.

This time around, the electors will be greeted by organized protests, urging them to assign Pennsylvania's electoral votes to anyone but Trump.

One elector, Ash Khare, said he and each of the 19 others have been assigned a plainclothes state police trooper for protection....

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Pennsylvania; Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: election; electoralcollege; hillary; pennsylvania; trump
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1 posted on 12/18/2016 9:43:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

threatening electors is sedition. there are laws against it.

UPHOLD THE LAW AND FILE CHARGES


2 posted on 12/18/2016 9:46:28 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Dems are such a disgrace. Hope their harassment is recorded so that it will be used against them in future elections


3 posted on 12/18/2016 9:46:47 PM PST by ari-freedom (You can't be America First by putting G-d last)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Life in the liberal land of mob rule.


4 posted on 12/18/2016 9:47:24 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If electing Trump gives these communist priks this much pain and suffering then we know we’ve all done the right thing voting for him.

Oh, and you Illegals and ‘dreamers’... Time to start packing your $hit!


5 posted on 12/18/2016 9:47:54 PM PST by Bullish
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To: ari-freedom

“The Dems are such a disgrace.”

Yes. They exemplify so many of the things for which they point accusatory fingers at others.


6 posted on 12/18/2016 9:56:31 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: sten
Copies of the Federalist Papers and other books urging political courage are being mailed to their homes.

Guess the "Resistance" hasn't heard of Rule 308...

Current popular vote totals:

The Deplorables: 62.98 million

The HillBullies: 60.84 million

Illegals for Hillary: about 5 million.

Figure a Great Big Ol Chunk of The Deplorables are well-armed.

Figure that The HillBullies are mostly unarmed. Figure that most of the Illegals for Hillary are unarmed.

Game, Set, Match, beech-ez. 😀

7 posted on 12/18/2016 9:57:10 PM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: headstamp 2
Life in the liberal land of mob rule.

Life in the liberal land of UNARMED mob rule.

WHOOPSIE, ProgFlakes... 😀

8 posted on 12/18/2016 9:58:48 PM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: sten

Show no mercy. Shoot them!


9 posted on 12/18/2016 10:09:03 PM PST by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: sten
threatening electors is sedition. there are laws against it.

And Emperor Zero says nothing, because he supports that treason.

January 20th can't get here fast enough.

10 posted on 12/18/2016 10:09:23 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: kiryandil

They’d be “Red Dawn”ed so hard. They wouldn’t know what they’d do without their iphones


11 posted on 12/18/2016 10:15:02 PM PST by ari-freedom (You can't be America First by putting G-d last)
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To: kiryandil
And there are those who are so Deplorable that they are armed even when unarmed.

{;^)~

12 posted on 12/18/2016 10:41:20 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Windflier

Amen. Father, in the Name of Jesus, keep every elector safe tomorrow and onward, as they perform their sacred duty.


13 posted on 12/18/2016 11:30:33 PM PST by Flaming Conservative
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To: ari-freedom
...Hope their harassment is recorded so that it will be used against them in future elections.

For Dem voters it is a resume enhancer.

Our real task is to make Donald Trump a very successful President. If he is not, the Dems will point to their opposition as "proof of their superior ideas."

I don't know what I will be required to do, but I consider it a patriotic duty to make our President a roaring success.

14 posted on 12/18/2016 11:58:20 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: DarthVader
Show no mercy. Shoot them!

Shot Placement, Shot Placement, Shot Placement. The three most important things to remember when shooting to stop someone.

-Evan Marshall

15 posted on 12/19/2016 12:32:30 AM PST by Boomer
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To: headstamp 2
...”Life in the liberal land of mob rule.”...

The harassments and death threats are a crime and that kind of unanswered crime is being noticed by more people than we can imagine in this nation. We do not realized how far we have fallen from being a free nation, governed by the laws which keep our freedom, in the past 8 years. Those reprobates promoting the elector issue are trying to steal our nation right under our noses. It will not happen.

16 posted on 12/19/2016 12:38:20 AM PST by jazzlite (esat)
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The Democrat Thug Party


17 posted on 12/19/2016 1:10:41 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: kiryandil

What is the source for your popular vote totals in post 7?


18 posted on 12/19/2016 2:37:52 AM PST by Washi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stay Strong


19 posted on 12/19/2016 3:42:29 AM PST by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: RU88

The headline makes it sound like they called the police protection “stupid”. The article, however, reads that the elector is referring to those who are inundating him with e-mails as “stupid”.


20 posted on 12/19/2016 4:00:56 AM PST by Russ
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