A letter from: Rod Miller, Legislative Chairman

Good Evening Patriots,

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’re in the middle of a pandemic!

And this one has two legs. One being the safety of the people with medical decisions to get us through it. The other leg is political whereby elected officials decisions can be, and often are, skewed to reflect the interest of the party that yields the hammer. That leg is one that we Patriots need to play a part.  

As it’s been often said, elections have consequences. Nothing could be more vivid than the turmoil that both the state and country are in today. The initial quarantine invoked from the federal government and halting travel from China were appropriate measures, buying time until we get the facts regarding the Wuhan virus. Subsequent to that national directive governors have been given the responsibility to decide the appropriate measures regarding both the health and economic consequences for their state. On its face it would make sense that local decisions could best be made by the local governments, but it wasn’t long before medical concerns became secondary to political priorities. 

Our governor’s Stay-at-Home directive is being challenged, perhaps he may even be impeached. While his directives not only have political considerations, but are they constitutional? Are they legal or ethical? A most egregious political example would be allowing abortion clinics, a priority of the political left, to remain open and funded while other medical procedures, beyond emergencies, were put on hold.

With all that in mind, PA’s primary is scheduled for June 2nd. Parties will chose candidates to oppose incumbents or to fill open seats. With Gov. Wolf’s restrictions, which could run past June 2nd, there’s an emphasis to use the mail in vote option without a need to state a reason. Debbie Oliveri, of Berks election services, assured us she will count every ballot, but that was before the lockdown and an abnormal amount of mail in ballots. Other than the 127th house seat, being vacated by Rep. Caltagirone, and democrat challengers for the Auditor General, most races have no primary competition within their party. For reference, the Patriot website will be posting the ballot choices. 

In addition, several delegates for the Republican Party national convention have received the endorsement of the Berks County Patriot executive committee and will also be found on the website. 

For federal offices, Berks County is divided into three congressional districts. So if you believe President Trump is performing to your expectations it’s important that not only he be retained as our president, but that the senate remain a republican majority and the house needs to be flipped to a republican majority. Of course, the democrat leadership is focused on flipping the senate and retaining the house majority. So imagine for more years of speaker Pelosi!!!

To be noted, while PA has issues that need to be addressed, there are national consequences regarding the current pandemic dealing with China and restarting the economy. All are reasons that the November national election Trump’s the state issues. (No pun intended). 
It’s a poorly kept secret that China’s long range goal is to become a world economic and military power.

China’s low labor cost along with stealing intellectual property and canalizing our military equipment, avoiding development costs, is their formula to become the economic engine of the world. In 2010 China was about 9% of the worlds GNP. Today its 17% and climbing. While China is thought of as a trading partner. To be clear, the relationship with China is adversarial at best and the day may come that they choose to replace the pen with the sword. China’s dictators do not operate under any ethical rules, but only focus on what’s best for China’s regime.  

As we know, many flights left Wuhan before the world was made aware of the virus. Be it by carelessness or malicious intent, their goal has been expedited by dragging down the rest of the world putting it at an economic stand still due to the Wuhan virus. By the time the world recovers, China’s economic relative strength will have surpassed what many thought would take forever, if at all. China will then have moved closer to their goal of a world economic power.
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While more need be said, I will conclude by saying that the Berks County Patriots, a conservative nonpartisan organization is your information source to hear prominent speakers that you don’t generally hear from the “fake news”. You may even get an insight what needs to be done to preserve the Republic. The Patriots are the citizen advocacy link between the electors and the elected. You can stay current with our activities by periodically logging into our website.

Thank you,
Rod Miller
Legislative Chairman