A 13th District write-in candidate

Residents of the 13th District now have an option for the 13th district seat other than sitting it out or writing in the name of someone who qualified for the ballot and then decided he didn’t want to run.

Beth Farnham of Gettysburg is mounting an energetic effort to increase her name recognition by election day and remind Rep. Joyce that there is another party in his district.

This is Beth’s first run for office, but she has been active in the Adams County Democratic party, serving as one of the hardest working members of the central committee.

She brings a real passion to everything she does and will work hard to introduce herself throughout the district. To facilitate this, she started a “Pennsylvania’s Thirteenth Congressional District Facebook page.

Here is a sampling of her fire, a comment she made at a “Stop Mastriano” rally in Gettysburg.

As an elected Adams County Democratic Committee member and former registered Republican of Adams County, Pennsylvania, I have witnessed conspiracy theory and Christian exclusion subvert our American ideals of Democracy as well as actual Christianity. As a fifteen year resident of Adams County, I have lived among hypocrites who wrap themselves in the United States flag and carry a Bible, then discount Black Lives, Women’s Rights, public education, voting rights, stewardship of the Earth, and welfare programs, while they exalt personal freedoms to threaten others with firearms, pollution, and infectious disease. 

When Black Lives Matter, when Women’s Rights are Human Rights, when No Human is Illegal, when Love is Love, and when Science is Real, then we embrace “the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and we love our neighbors as ourselves. Life is defined by the Biblical concept “first breath” and so…the murders of Black people at the hands of racist police officers, students at the bullets of gleeful gun nuts, medically vulnerable at the respirations of antivaxxers, and starving children at the fists of a selfish society are contrary to that basic right, while fetal termination is not. Truths of peer-reviewed Science, Critical Race Theory, gun statistics, and the like shall not be hidden under a bushel, but revealed for All.

A vote for me is a vote for the American ideals of individual worth, equal rights, liberty, enfranchisement, and majority rule, once promised by our Founding Fathers, improved by the marching generations, and manifested in you.

She had this answer for a questioner who asked what she considered the most important issue.

Protecting our precious democracy is paramount to me. We almost lost it on January 6th, 2021 when the sanctity of the American voting process was violently disrupted at the instigation of a man who would not accept that he lost the presidential election. This has sharpened my resolve to do all I can to safeguard American democracy. Certainly my opponent, incumbent Rep. John Joyce, does nothing to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States” as he not only fails to condemn the January 6th insurrection, but also the despicable actions and words of former President Trump leading up to and during the attack, as evidenced in the recent January 6th Committee hearings. Worse, Rep. Joyce voted against certifying the lawful election of President Biden despite having no valid legal or Constitutional basis to do so. 

Hope everyone will take a close look and consider writing in BETH FARNHAM. Thank you.

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