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Steve Bannon Endorses Pennsylvania’s Trump-Loving Gubernatorial Candidate Scott Wagner

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Steve Bannon Endorses Pennsylvania’s Trump-Loving Gubernatorial Candidate – Philadelphia Magazine

A two-hour plane ride with Steve Bannon left state Sen. Scott Wagner feeling “emboldened” last weekend — and apparently earned the gubernatorial hopeful an endorsement.

Wagner, the York Republican who said that “warm bodies” cause climate change, chatted with Bannon on the way to St. Louis for a gathering of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a “pro-family” interest group that opposes “feminist goals,” “political correctness” and gay marriage, among other things.

According the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wagner said at the meeting that he was “pretty emboldened” before his plane ride with Bannon, but that “right now I’m like 500 percent more emboldened.”

Bannon endorsed Wagner shortly thereafter.

Read more at Steve Bannon Endorses Pennsylvania’s Trump-Loving Gubernatorial Candidate – Philadelphia Magazine
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This guy Scott Wagner is a multi-millionaire head of his own trash company. He's also a PA state senator. It's only January & the primaries are in May but he's already funding frequent TV commercials on Philadelphia TV channels & likely in Harrisburg & Pittsburgh as well.

With his radical right wing views it's a comfort to have Steve Bannon endorse him. We know how well that kind of support did for Judge Roy Moore, the alleged child molester in AL. Lets hope it works the same way for Scott Wagner.
 
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JacksinPA said:
Steve Bannon Endorses Pennsylvania’s Trump-Loving Gubernatorial Candidate – Philadelphia Magazine

A two-hour plane ride with Steve Bannon left state Sen. Scott Wagner feeling “emboldened” last weekend — and apparently earned the gubernatorial hopeful an endorsement.

Wagner, the York Republican who said that “warm bodies” cause climate change, chatted with Bannon on the way to St. Louis for a gathering of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a “pro-family” interest group that opposes “feminist goals,” “political correctness” and gay marriage, among other things.

According the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wagner said at the meeting that he was “pretty emboldened” before his plane ride with Bannon, but that “right now I’m like 500 percent more emboldened.”

Bannon endorsed Wagner shortly thereafter.

Read more at Steve Bannon Endorses Pennsylvania’s Trump-Loving Gubernatorial Candidate – Philadelphia Magazine
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This guy Scott Wagner is a multi-millionaire head of his own trash company. He's also a PA state senator. It's only January & the primaries are in May but he's already funding frequent TV commercials on Philadelphia TV channels & likely in Harrisburg & Pittsburgh as well.

With his radical right wing views it's a comfort to have Steve Bannon endorse him. We know how well that kind of support did for Judge Roy Moore, the alleged child molester in AL. Lets hope it works the same way for Scott Wagner.
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Kiss of death, that's how it will work out for him.
 
Grand Mal said:
Kiss of death, that's how it will work out for him.
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We can only hope. I can't vote in the May primary as I'm not a registered Republican but you can be sure I will be voting for the Democrat opposition this year.
 
Could Steve Bannon play a role in Scott Wagner's bid for Pa. governor?

Steve Bannon is on a losing streak: That could swing the Pa. governor's race (column)

Intellectual property lawyer Bert P. Krages II says Wagner exceeded his rights and possibly committed a crime at a private event on May 2. Sean Heisey, York Daily Record

Steve Bannon
(Photo: Evan Vucci, AP)

As easy money. Wolf should call the caterer and the band and get things lined up for his victory celebration. (Just a suggestion: Instead of booking a fancy hotel ballroom somewhere, Wolf should hold his election night celebration at the Mount Wolf fire hall and have the Manchester Café cater the affair. Maybe hire Del McCoury and his boys to provide the entertainment. Go full York County.)

And there is one reason for that bold prediction.

Anyway, Bannon has a new bestest buddy – our own Scott Wagner.

Sen. Scott Wagner kicks off his campaign for governor Wednesday at his York County waste and recycling business, Penn Waste Inc., in East Manchester Township.

In September, Wagner flew to St. Louis for a meeting of something called the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, which seems like a fun group named for the now-deceased conservative activist who was a big deal in such circles a few decades ago for reasons that remain mystifying. That he was invited to speak to the group is also mystifying, or maybe not. That group seems like an easy mark for campaign contributions from a candidate who fashions himself as a kind of Dollar General Donald Trump.

Wagner told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he found out that Bannon was invited to the gathering too and extended an invitation to share a chartered flight to St. Louis. "It's called plane-pooling, like car-pooling," Wagner told the newspaper.

Setting aside the notion that taking charter flights is the hallmark of the friend of the working man, Wagner and Bannon hit it off. Wagner told the newspaper that they talked about issues and found "we had a lot of issues in common."

Which doesn't seem like a good thing to say, at least in public.

Bannon, in case you didn’t know, is a leader of what's called the alt-right, which is, essentially a gussied-up version of people with whom you really wouldn’t want to associate. The neo-nutjobs who marched on Charlottesville? They identified with the alt-right. (I still haven't gotten an explanation for the tiki torches and their significance in that strange world.)

Wagner, the Post-Gazette reported, told the crowd that he'd spent "two hours on the plane with Steve Bannon. I was pretty emboldened before, but I can tell you right now I'm like 500 percent more emboldened."

Just what we needed.

He also told the group, "In Pennsylvania the gloves are coming off, and the message is to hard-working Pennsylvanians: You’re being shafted by the corruption in Harrisburg. … I watched Republican leaders giving our governor a free pass, and you know what? Enough is enough."

"A free pass?" That would be news to Wolf.

The lovefest continued when Bannon took the stage and said, "What Scott Wagner was talking a second ago — it’s not about ... the Democrats. We’ll get to them, and we’ll beat them like we beat Hillary Clinton. But the first thing we’ve got to get through is a corrupt and incompetent Republican establishment.”

“They’re not going to give you your country back,” he said later. “You’re going to have to go and take it back and we’re going to start taking it back … in November when Scott Wagner runs in Pennsylvania.”

Wagner told the Post-Gazette that he didn’t know whether Bannon would be playing a role in his campaign. He said Bannon told him, "If you want to talk, give me a call."

So he may, or may not, have Bannon in his corner.

While it is true that Bannon played a role in foisting Trump upon an unsuspecting nation – which probably had more to do with Trump's abundant grifting skills than anything – he has also been involved in a couple of other campaigns.

He championed the candidacy of Corey Stewart in his bid to run for governor in Virginia, the online magazine Slate.com reported.

So how'd that work out?

Stewart lost the primary to Ed Gillespie. And after the loss, Bannon was sure that Gillespie was going to win the general election. He didn't.

And then Bannon hitched his wagon to the creaky old nag that was Roy Moore. The strategy seemed to be that electing a nut who was twice thrown out of office for defying court orders and who stands accused of sexually abusing teenage girls and who was perhaps the only person in Alabama even creepier than the man he was trying to replace in the Senate, Jeff Sessions, was a lot better than sending a Democrat to Washington. It almost worked. Until it didn't.

The moral of the story is that people seem to be catching on to this particular con.

So now Bannon may be latching onto Wagner.
 
JacksinPA said:
Steve Bannon Endorses Pennsylvania’s Trump-Loving Gubernatorial Candidate – Philadelphia Magazine

A two-hour plane ride with Steve Bannon left state Sen. Scott Wagner feeling “emboldened” last weekend — and apparently earned the gubernatorial hopeful an endorsement.

Wagner, the York Republican who said that “warm bodies” cause climate change, chatted with Bannon on the way to St. Louis for a gathering of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a “pro-family” interest group that opposes “feminist goals,” “political correctness” and gay marriage, among other things.

According the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wagner said at the meeting that he was “pretty emboldened” before his plane ride with Bannon, but that “right now I’m like 500 percent more emboldened.”

Bannon endorsed Wagner shortly thereafter.

Read more at Steve Bannon Endorses Pennsylvania’s Trump-Loving Gubernatorial Candidate – Philadelphia Magazine
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This guy Scott Wagner is a multi-millionaire head of his own trash company. He's also a PA state senator. It's only January & the primaries are in May but he's already funding frequent TV commercials on Philadelphia TV channels & likely in Harrisburg & Pittsburgh as well.

With his radical right wing views it's a comfort to have Steve Bannon endorse him. We know how well that kind of support did for Judge Roy Moore, the alleged child molester in AL. Lets hope it works the same way for Scott Wagner.
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Oddly enough, the Roy Moore loss and this book where Bannon attacked Trump will actually help both Trump and the GOP in the long run. Moore is gone and with it the sexual harassment label dems planned to use against incumbent senators. Bannon has officially marginalized himself to the point where there will be no insurgent primary challenges against republican incumbents. Bannon has gone from being hated by the left to being hated by everybody after endorsing the only Alabaman that could lose to a democrat. Democrats still have a good shot at control of one or both houses this fall, but to whatever degree republican infighting would help that cause has evaporated dramatically.
 
JacksinPA said:
Steve Bannon Endorses Pennsylvania’s Trump-Loving Gubernatorial Candidate – Philadelphia Magazine

A two-hour plane ride with Steve Bannon left state Sen. Scott Wagner feeling “emboldened” last weekend — and apparently earned the gubernatorial hopeful an endorsement.

Wagner, the York Republican who said that “warm bodies” cause climate change, chatted with Bannon on the way to St. Louis for a gathering of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a “pro-family” interest group that opposes “feminist goals,” “political correctness” and gay marriage, among other things.

According the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wagner said at the meeting that he was “pretty emboldened” before his plane ride with Bannon, but that “right now I’m like 500 percent more emboldened.”

Bannon endorsed Wagner shortly thereafter.

Read more at Steve Bannon Endorses Pennsylvania’s Trump-Loving Gubernatorial Candidate – Philadelphia Magazine
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This guy Scott Wagner is a multi-millionaire head of his own trash company. He's also a PA state senator. It's only January & the primaries are in May but he's already funding frequent TV commercials on Philadelphia TV channels & likely in Harrisburg & Pittsburgh as well.

With his radical right wing views it's a comfort to have Steve Bannon endorse him. We know how well that kind of support did for Judge Roy Moore, the alleged child molester in AL. Lets hope it works the same way for Scott Wagner.
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The touch of death.
 
Fletch said:
Oddly enough, the Roy Moore loss and this book where Bannon attacked Trump will actually help both Trump and the GOP in the long run. Moore is gone and with it the sexual harassment label dems planned to use against incumbent senators. Bannon has officially marginalized himself to the point where there will be no insurgent primary challenges against republican incumbents. Bannon has gone from being hated by the left to being hated by everybody after endorsing the only Alabaman that could lose to a democrat. Democrats still have a good shot at control of one or both houses this fall, but to whatever degree republican infighting would help that cause has evaporated dramatically.
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Wagner is only a state senator, not an incumbent. Be certain that his wacky right-wing views will be used against him if he makes it through the primary. As far as Bannon goes, he now has a record of backing & endorsing losers. I seriously doubt that he can help Wagner.
 
My god, when will Bannon become irrelevant? This guy is starting get on my nerves.
 
JacksinPA said:
We can only hope. I can't vote in the May primary as I'm not a registered Republican but you can be sure I will be voting for the Democrat opposition this year.
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Do you have reason to believe that Governor Wolf will not be running for re-election?


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AliHajiSheik said:
I’ll take that as a no, which would have been sufficient.


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Your response has lost me.

When I post anything here I like to provide a link for documentation. If I offended you for some reason, get over it, Cliff.
 
JacksinPA said:
Your response has lost me.

When I post anything here I like to provide a link for documentation. If I offended you for some reason, get over it, Cliff.
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I asked you what you believed, which does not mean documentation. Hopefully you won't need documentation for all your beliefs.
 
AliHajiSheik said:
I asked you what you believed, which does not mean documentation. Hopefully you won't need documentation for all your beliefs.
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I don't follow PA state politics much so I had to check online, hence the response. I wanted to give a correct reply.
 
Bannon is an ass wipe. A has been. A wannabe. Nobody cares what he thinks or who he endorses.

He looks like he needs to be in rehab.
 
Removable Mind said:
Bannon is an ass wipe. A has been. A wannabe. Nobody cares what he thinks or who he endorses.

He looks like he needs to be in rehab.
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He looks like he sleeps in his clothes & needs to be deloused for starters.
 
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