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22 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
did not see that coming
I promise to always be that 51st vote.
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3 Jun
“more than 22,000 staff hours — just 16 prosecutions”

The nation’s *2nd largest state* spent 22,000 hours (there’s 8.8K hours in a year) in 2020 for 16 CASES.

Exhaustive, endless, performative
*and* conclusive:

VOTER FRAUD is a myth in TX or PA.
houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
Often and ironically, much of the evidence of zero voter fraud is produced by the GOP itself.

How caustic and damaging is it to our shared democracy when a phenomenon nearly as rare as Easter Bunny sightings has become an essential plank in their party’s platform?
How central has this lie become to their party’s core identity?

My Georgia counterpart lost his political career because he refused to lie about 2020.

In Texas, their LG offered a $1M reward for “voter fraud” (but never coughed it up.)
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2 Mar
$15 hr is $31,000 a year of 2,000 hours of hard, often unglamorous work.

Day in, day out.

These people making $174,000 a year won’t cede this most meager baseline.

Though I have a MBA, I don’t need an advanced degree to know how utterly shitty that is

politico.com/news/2021/03/0…
These are the *same* people who argued against the weekend
Days off??!! What?! It will crash the economy. What will our small businesses do??
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1 Mar
PAGOP told me to shut up about weed for years.

YES to a plant 🪴:

“New York state would yield over $700 million in tax revenue and create over 50,000 jobs by 2027, estimates in a new economic analysis.”

67% of PA from 67 Counties want Legal Weed ✅
norml.org/news/2021/02/1…
Legal Weed > Grafting a mini casino onto a dead mall + “small games of chance in bars” + lying about the 2020 election
FUN FACT: In PA, it’s perfectly legal to gamble away your retirement savings *on your iPhone* but you’ll go to prison for years as a convicted felon if you’re caught with 2 weed plants in your home.
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18 Feb
27 years ago today, I met my Big Brothers “little”, Nick: One of the most transformative relationships of my life.

By 8, he would become an AIDS orphan. His circumstances were so divergent from my own, and unable to reconcile that, I upended my whole path and took a new one.
Right before his mother died in 1994, I promised her I would get her son to college.

This is Nick’s graduation from @wjcollege in 2009 with G, and Karl.

By then, I just won my 2nd term as Braddock’s mayor. A path that Nick and his circumstances put me on 15 years earlier.
Today, Nick is a 36 year old man-12 years older than I was when we met- and works for an organization that helps the formerly incarcerated acclimate onto a new path.

I am your LG, and before you today, but for that core observation of our society I first fully absorbed in 1994.
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8 Feb
I *just* realized this is my 1st Sheetz run as an official candidate for US Senate. 👋😭
Could I be the first candidate to ever run statewide in Pennsylvania who has Sheetz > Wawa as part of their official campaign platform? 🤔
brb they’re making me put on pants for the interviews now. 🙄🙄
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8 Feb
Consider where the Democratic Party was in 2001 when I came to Braddock, PA; just a few years prior:

“Ended Welfare as we know it” 👈

The infamous Crime Bill. 👈

Instead, I came to work against our nation’s raging inequality in one of the most marginalized places in PA.
I’ve never had to “evolve” on core values like:

✅ Living Wage.

✅Healthcare a fundamental right.

✅ The Union Way of Life.

✅ Environmental Justice.

✅ Compassionate Immigration Reform.

✅ Criminal Justice Reform.

✅ LGBTQIA 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Equality

✅ Ending the War on Drugs.
✅ Rebuilding distressed communities.

✅ Power of a 2nd Chance.

✅ No places left behind.

✅ Legal Weed for USA. 🇺🇸

✅ Your zip code must not be your destiny.

For 20 years, as a social worker, mayor or Lieutenant Governor, I’ve always fought for what I know to be true.
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