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Political earthquake strikes Pennsylvania Dems with indictment of their union boss

Tick, tick, tick: President Trump’s Democrat enemies in the key swing state of Pennsylvania (and in D.C., too) have got a lot to worry about, though the national media would rather focus attention elsewhere.  It is hard to overstate the importance of a 159-page indictment last Wednesday of the top Democrat political boss in the state of Pennsylvania.  Politico acknowledges that he is:

… the man who orchestrated the Democratic takeover of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

That court radically redrew the state’s congressional map last year, leading to the Democratic pickup of a handful of congressional seats in November.

Philly.com reported last week:

In a wide-ranging indictment unsealed Wednesday, federal authorities portrayed the region’s most powerful labor leader, John J. Dougherty, as an unscrupulous kingpin who enriched himself on the backs of union members and exerted his influence to steamroll opponents and corruptly bend the government of Philadelphia to his whims.

The chief weapon in his arsenal, prosecutors said, was City Councilman Bobby Henon, whom Dougherty helped propel into office in 2011 on a tide of union money, then allegedly used as a tool to leave his mark on pressing legislation facing the city.

Read the full story from American Thinker


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