The candidate for the chairman of GOP in Pennsylvania accuses the opponent of the opponent of intimidating tactics and calls for secret voting in the Saturday elections.
“This is the policy in the ugliest,” said Bill Bacheenberg, businessman Lehigh Valley and the long -time ally of President Donald Trump, who is running for the chairman of the senator of State Greg Rothman.
“You have threatened political and economic life of people, voices are traded where a person says:” If you vote for Greg, we will make sure your chairman has been restored. “
Rothman, who did not call back to comment on Wednesday, has the support of the party brass, including leaders such as Senator Dave McCormick, treasurer of Stacy Garrita and Rep. Dan Meuser. He seemed to be the escaping successor of the current chairman Lawrence Tabasa after another candidate, Ted Christian, abandoned in December.
Then Bachenberg, who supported Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to repeal the election in 2020, announced that he was fighting for a job and put himself as a candidate of the roots of the party. Despite the victories in November, he was a sincere critic of the party.
“You look at the last election, the state GOP did not exist. Grassy roots and the volunteers of the state, which they brought home home, said Bachenberg.
The election on Saturday in Gettysburg caused the intraparta tension, which the chairman of GOP from Adams described as “full cannibalism”.
While republican people say they expect Rothman to win when 350 members of the GOP committee vote this weekend, it is not clear how some of the bubbles of public reconstruction may affect the unity of the party in the coming months.
“Thus, the hungry power who did not make a hard lifting to win this victory, they want to kidnap him,” Charlotte Shaffer, GOP of Adams The chairwoman, written in a letter sent to Tabas, that she also publishedN social media. “They want to take control and push the bottom -up back on the side. This is unacceptable. “
Shaffer claims in a letter that selected officials from Harrisburg to DC tried to force the members of the Committee to support Rothman.
Later he describes GOP as devouring during the campaign. “At this pace, democrats will not even have to fight us – there will be nothing but the bones.”
Chairman of GOP from Clarion and Westmoreland and Val Biancaniello, Delaware Committee, They also complained that the committee members were excessively pressure And he called for secret ballots.
58 -year -old Rothman, a real estate broker, which served in the state senate for two years, and State House for seven, said in a compact telephone interview in December: “I believe in the Republican Party and I want to use the successes that we just had in these elections. “
His candidacy attracted the flood of party leaders. McCormick in a statement supporting Rothman said that he would be “an outstanding chair that led us forward.”
The South-Voivodeship Pennsylvania served in the US Corps reserve for 10 years, previously led the Cumberland Funie and the Chairman of the Senate Games and State Fisheries Committee.
Over three decades ago, in 1991, Rothman pleaded guilty on charges of a conspiracy offense aimed at committing a forgery resulting from a false political email. The conviction was later removed, and the former Governor Ed Rendell issued Rothman pardon in 2011. Some supporters of Bachenberg have raised the fee in recent months.
The winner will be replaced by Tabasa, 71, a long -time general advisor from Philadelphia of the party, who was the chairman since 2019. Tabas was the only candidate nominated in 2019 and unanimously won the leadership when the party refrained from the scandal. He replaced the former chairman of Val Diviorgio from Chester, who resigned in accordance with the allegations of sexual harassment.
Andy Reilly, a commission with the Republican National Committee, which supports Rothman, said that he did not expect him to win in secret ballotrs. He believes that this would require voting to change the party regulations that define a vote or vote, he said. Reilly said that the party had a voice voice in the whole state, some in a paper vote, before full vote in the committee, and that Rothman was clearly overtaken.
“People calling for secret voting are now those who did not cope well in clubs and who think, changing dynamics, will change their voice,” said Reilly.
“Most people think that we are in the process of choices. Are you changing the rules now? What are we, democrats? “
