Teabagger uses write-in campaign to win PA. Senate seat, after Rep Party bashed him in ads

[JPZenger]

http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_25370676/special-election-its-all-over-but-counting

The Republican Party Civil War is in full public view in Pennsylvania.

The Republican Party selected a current establishment State Rep. to run in a special election for an open State Senate seat in York County in PA. It is a mostly Republican area of the state. The owner of a regional trash collection business, Scott Wagner, has been an outspoken conservative critic of Governor Corbett and many PA. Republicans. He was angry he was not chosen to run, and decided to mount a write-in campaign.

There also is a primary election in May for this same seat with the same candidates.

The PA. Senate Campaign Committee spent large sums of money to buy really vicious radio and TV ads attacking Wagner, the teabagger write-in candidate. They kept referring to him as the "millionaire trashman" who is trying to buy the election. They also attacked him for having sued an 84 year widow for past due trash bills.

Many voters had an adverse reaction to these unusually brutal ads. That backlash apparently helped Wagner win a write-in vote, which is almost impossible in a major election involving tens of polling locations.

Here is a previous thread on this story:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10745415

[DebJ]

1. The Dem only lost by about 110 votes. I hope we have better luck in the fall.

I am so so so humiliated to live in York County at times.

[JPZenger]

2. quote of the day

On WHYY they quoted Scott Wagner today talking about his hopes to make up with Repubs who ran brutal ads against him. The quote was something like

"I won. When you stab your opponent in the neck, and they bleed to death, there is no reason to keep stabbing."

Now that sounds like reconciliation to me.