The Sam Rohrer for Senate campaign has launched a new initiative found at http://www.dearmrgleason.com. It is a petition site that encourages supporters to sign on to a letter to Rob Gleason, the PA GOP Chairman, asking him to stop endorsing candidates in primaries. The idea is to allow the people decide who their Republican nominee should be, rather than a bunch of party bigwigs in smoky backrooms.
We have proudly affixed our names to this petition and encourage you to do so as well regardless of who you are supporting for the primary nomination. Rob Gleason and his fellow party leaders endorsed Tom Corbett during the gubernatorial primary over Sam Rohrer in 2010. Undoubtedly, Rohrer wants to ensure, by fighting back, that the party won’t destroy his campaign here in 2012. All of the other GOP senate candidates agree that the party should not pick the nominee, so it should be a no brainer for all PA Republicans – sign on to this petition and tell the party that we will choose the best candidate to take on Bob Casey.
And just for the record, the party bosses do not have a great record of “crowning” conservative Republicans. This is the same group of party bosses that endorsed Arlen Specter (who would later become a Democrat). They also supported Tom Corbett over Constitutionalist Sam Rohrer in 2010, going so far as to mail a postcard attacking Rohrer to registered Republicans a week before the primary election.
Stand up for your conservative principles and the belief that the people should make the decision, not corrupt liberal Republican party bosses – go to http://www.dearmrgleason.com, read the letter and add your name to it!