Dear Friends,As many of you probably know, I have a very diverse group of people working on my campaign. We all come from different walks of life with different backgrounds, but we all share one common interest. We all share a desire for Good Government and ethical leadership in Mercer and Crawford Counties and in Harrisburg. I’d like to share with you today an email from one of my volunteers. He tells his story of why he is involved with my campaign. His story is not much unlike many others that I have heard, but he has come to realize that it is only by joining together that we have a chance of “beating Goliath” in my race against 20-year career politician Senator Bob Robbins.
As the race heats up, ugly lies will be told about me and those that I am working with in my campaign. As some of you may have already experienced, the attacks will be harsh and they will be very pointed. Please remember that you can’t believe everything that you hear, and I ask that you investigate accusations on your own before you take anything for granted. If you have questions, please ask. After you are convinced of the real truth, I urge you to join my team as we drive forward to Election Day on November 2nd. You can be a part of a small army that is going up against insurmountable odds and dishonorable tactics. While I cannot guarantee victory (who can?), I can promise you that we will remain honorable for a worthy cause. NOW is the time for us to take our government back . . . one small step at a time. It needs to once again be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people!
Thank you for your time.
Roberta Biros
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Independent Candidate for State Senate
Email: Roberta.in.Mercer@gmail.com
Web: http://www.electbiros.com/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Zentis
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 1:17 PM
I really need your help. To explain why, I will tell you a little story.
Once upon a time (April 15, 2009, to be exact), a quiet, passive, friendly 70-year-old conservative (that would be me) inadvertently became a radical right-wing. How can you do that inadvertently? By attending a TEA Party. Through the next year, barely anyone noticed the change, because I remained a quiet, passive, friendly 70-year-old conservative who did little more than attend a few more TEA Parties, watch Fox News, write a few letters to the editor, and complain to friends about the sad state of our nation. Actually, I did one other thing. I stopped into the Mercer County Republican headquarters at least three times and told whoever was there that I wanted to help out the Republican Party in whatever way I could. I gave them my name and phone number. Never heard a thing.
Before the primary elections in May of this year, a TEA Party activist alerted many of us to the fact that many precincts in Mercer County had no committeemen on the Mercer County Republican Committee – nor candidates to fill those offices, which are elected during the primaries every two years. He suggested that we write in our names on the ballot. I did, and got elected with a grand total of two votes. One would have been enough.
I started my grand political career a month later at the biennial organizational meeting of the committee. I quickly learned why no one from the Republican leadership had responded to my earlier attempts to get involved. The committee is tightly held by several longtime party leaders who view newcomers (especially TEA Partiers) as threats to their bastion of power. They nominated a slate of candidates for the five committee offices, and immediately moved that the nominations be closed.
As that motion was being voiced, another committee member moved to nominate someone else for committee chairman. The leadership begrudgingly allowed that nomination to be made. Big surprise: he lost. Bigger surprise: within a day, the committee leadership leaned on the upstart nominee to resign from the committee – not because of the nomination, but because he has been known to support a friend of his, Roberta Biros, an Independent running against our beloved State Senator (and current Republican senatorial candidate) Bob Robbins.
During the meeting, Senator Robbins had spoken vociferously against the very idea of any committeeman supporting anyone but Republican candidates. It was against the committee bylaws, he said. He didn’t explain why we couldn’t campaign against the Democratic state senatorial candidate, maybe because that’s also Bob Robbins. Through an active write-in campaign this spring, he got himself nominated as candidate for both parties to ensure that his 27 years in the state legislature will be extended by another four years.
All of this made me curioser and curioser. I had met Roberta Biros once or twice, but didn’t really know her. All I knew is that she was a troublemaker who had been a Republican, then a Democrat, and finally an Independent. Talk about wishy-washy switchy swatchy! I couldn’t figure out why the committee leadership in general and Bob Robbins in particular felt so threatened by her.
So I decided to learn more about her. Best way to do that is talk directly with her. She told me a story that paralleled my own. She had been very serious about getting involved in politics to change the direction of our governments. Being Republican, she tried to do that by getting helping out in the county Republican headquarters. She was pushed away. So she tried to work with the Democrats. Again, she was pushed away. She didn’t switch parties because she was wishy-washy. She switched because she was determined to find whatever way she could to fight the corruption and ineptitude of our state government.
Given no other choice, she decided to run as an Independent against Republican/Democrat Bob Robbins. Her chances at the moment are in the category of David/Goliath, snowball in hell, or you’ve-got-to-be-kidding me. Virtually unknown, with practically no campaign funds or staff, she is up against the treasury and army of Bob Robbins and the Mercer County Republican Party.
So why, again, are the Republicans so concerned with her candidacy? Because they know her well – her tenacity, her determination, and her abilities.
I’ve decided to go whole hog to support her. After all, David beat Goliath, and snowballs can survive thrive in hell if they are positioned right (at least according to Dante’s Inferno).
I invite you to join us – to work to make a difference. What will it take? A few people doing a lot of work, plus a lot of people having a few moments of fun. Roberta needs people to walk with her in festival and fair parades, a d stand beside her in campaign booths at local fairs. Spend an evening or two or three with friends who want to do more than gripe and moan about big government, excessive spending, ever-increasing taxation, and continual loss of freedoms.
If you are willing to do even a little bit to help us – or if you have questions or comments - please e-mail me or give me a call. Monetary contributions would also be nice, but mostly we need your involvement.
- Joe
Please check out these websites: http://www.electbiros.com/ and mercerconservatives.blogspot.com
I really need your help. To explain why, I will tell you a little story.
Once upon a time (April 15, 2009, to be exact), a quiet, passive, friendly 70-year-old conservative (that would be me) inadvertently became a radical right-wing. How can you do that inadvertently? By attending a TEA Party. Through the next year, barely anyone noticed the change, because I remained a quiet, passive, friendly 70-year-old conservative who did little more than attend a few more TEA Parties, watch Fox News, write a few letters to the editor, and complain to friends about the sad state of our nation. Actually, I did one other thing. I stopped into the Mercer County Republican headquarters at least three times and told whoever was there that I wanted to help out the Republican Party in whatever way I could. I gave them my name and phone number. Never heard a thing.
Before the primary elections in May of this year, a TEA Party activist alerted many of us to the fact that many precincts in Mercer County had no committeemen on the Mercer County Republican Committee – nor candidates to fill those offices, which are elected during the primaries every two years. He suggested that we write in our names on the ballot. I did, and got elected with a grand total of two votes. One would have been enough.
I started my grand political career a month later at the biennial organizational meeting of the committee. I quickly learned why no one from the Republican leadership had responded to my earlier attempts to get involved. The committee is tightly held by several longtime party leaders who view newcomers (especially TEA Partiers) as threats to their bastion of power. They nominated a slate of candidates for the five committee offices, and immediately moved that the nominations be closed.
As that motion was being voiced, another committee member moved to nominate someone else for committee chairman. The leadership begrudgingly allowed that nomination to be made. Big surprise: he lost. Bigger surprise: within a day, the committee leadership leaned on the upstart nominee to resign from the committee – not because of the nomination, but because he has been known to support a friend of his, Roberta Biros, an Independent running against our beloved State Senator (and current Republican senatorial candidate) Bob Robbins.
During the meeting, Senator Robbins had spoken vociferously against the very idea of any committeeman supporting anyone but Republican candidates. It was against the committee bylaws, he said. He didn’t explain why we couldn’t campaign against the Democratic state senatorial candidate, maybe because that’s also Bob Robbins. Through an active write-in campaign this spring, he got himself nominated as candidate for both parties to ensure that his 27 years in the state legislature will be extended by another four years.
All of this made me curioser and curioser. I had met Roberta Biros once or twice, but didn’t really know her. All I knew is that she was a troublemaker who had been a Republican, then a Democrat, and finally an Independent. Talk about wishy-washy switchy swatchy! I couldn’t figure out why the committee leadership in general and Bob Robbins in particular felt so threatened by her.
So I decided to learn more about her. Best way to do that is talk directly with her. She told me a story that paralleled my own. She had been very serious about getting involved in politics to change the direction of our governments. Being Republican, she tried to do that by getting helping out in the county Republican headquarters. She was pushed away. So she tried to work with the Democrats. Again, she was pushed away. She didn’t switch parties because she was wishy-washy. She switched because she was determined to find whatever way she could to fight the corruption and ineptitude of our state government.
Given no other choice, she decided to run as an Independent against Republican/Democrat Bob Robbins. Her chances at the moment are in the category of David/Goliath, snowball in hell, or you’ve-got-to-be-kidding me. Virtually unknown, with practically no campaign funds or staff, she is up against the treasury and army of Bob Robbins and the Mercer County Republican Party.
So why, again, are the Republicans so concerned with her candidacy? Because they know her well – her tenacity, her determination, and her abilities.
I’ve decided to go whole hog to support her. After all, David beat Goliath, and snowballs can survive thrive in hell if they are positioned right (at least according to Dante’s Inferno).
I invite you to join us – to work to make a difference. What will it take? A few people doing a lot of work, plus a lot of people having a few moments of fun. Roberta needs people to walk with her in festival and fair parades, a d stand beside her in campaign booths at local fairs. Spend an evening or two or three with friends who want to do more than gripe and moan about big government, excessive spending, ever-increasing taxation, and continual loss of freedoms.
If you are willing to do even a little bit to help us – or if you have questions or comments - please e-mail me or give me a call. Monetary contributions would also be nice, but mostly we need your involvement.
- Joe
Please check out these websites: http://www.electbiros.com/ and mercerconservatives.blogspot.com
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I am glad to see Roberta Biros running for State Senate and admire her courage in taking on the establishment. My feeling is the voters should have a choice when they go to the polls on Election Day and I don't consider the same candidate on the Republican ticket and the Democrat ticket much of a choice. I have followed Roberta's political campaign and had the opportunity to meet her personally. I found her to be quite impressive, a very forthright individual with strong convictions and I admire that. She certainly is intelligent and well versed on various matters relating to responsible government and not afraid to take on stand on the tough issues. Roberta has said she is for Term Limits something I have been advocating for some time. Although we may not see eye to eye possibly on every issue I find that generally we do share much of the same philosophy regarding government responsibility and limitations. She is running on a fiscal conservative platform which stresses smaller government, transparency and accountability, those are all concerns that are very important to me. I wish Roberta the best and thank her for giving the people of PA 50th District a CHOICE in November.
ReplyDeleteI feel strongly that Robbins has developed quite the "machine". I admire you for taking him on.
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