The 122nd PA House district (all of Carbon County) has been represented by Republican Doyle Heffley since 2010, about 16 years too long. The district is MAGA country, although the Dems have been making some inroads recently.
This year no Democratic candidate gathered enough signatures to run against Rep. Heffley. Heffley then sent out a mailer asking Democrats to write in his name to ensure he would be running in both parties, just like elections in Russia.
Democrats are countering this ploy by running their own write-in campaign for Christian Bartulovich, a Penn Forest Township Supervisor. Penn Forest is the largest municipality in Carbon County. The interesting thing is that Bartulovich is a registered Republican.
He is, however, intelligent, engaged, concerned about data centers and what they do the the environment, a real environmentalist, and willing to listen. Tonight he was invited to speak to the Palmerton Area Democratic Club. The questions were pointed, but I believe Bartulovich handled himself well. I’m reasonably sure he will get everyone’s write-in who heard him tonight. I know he got mine–my ballot was mailed in about two weeks ago.
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