Overall, he said, it was a bunch of hocus pocus. As the group UnKoch My Campus reports, sights have been set on local schools after the Koch network has spent hundreds of millions on college campuses. Rudy Miller may be reached at rmiller@lehighvalleylive.com. Skip to Article Set weather Lynch has mostly taken aim at national or state figures such as Wolf, President Joe Biden and Anthony Fauci, Bidens chief medical advisor, claiming the federal government has trampled individual rights. Lynch was in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, when supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to stop Congress from certifying election results. Make men great again, right? McClure had no comment on Lynchs rant. After opening with a call to "make men great again, make men men again," Lynch got down to business, using the requirement to mask children as . I'm going to speak in front of the school board, and I'm giving them an option they can leave, or they can be removed. Lots of voters likely selected Lynch simply because they vote straight Republican, Borick speculated. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). In total, 67,923 people voted in the county executive race. Lynch hasnt made any effort to understand county government, McClure said. Lynch made the accusations publicly in front of about 75 enthusiastic supporters outside the Gracedale nursing home on Monday, asserting that all the claims warrant investigation, possibly even criminal charges. After the machines experienced touchscreen problems and lost thousands of votes in the digital count, election officials were only able to salvage the results by relying on paper backups. Background details that you might want to know . Steve Lynch Fitness Elite is an exclusive program for business professionals and C-Suite executives. Thats just not how you do things, Lynch told The Morning Call. Were going to pay attention, see what happens on Election Day, he said, expecting day-of reports from polling stations, though residents are also able to vote by mail. He had no faith in the statewide audit the county participated in. Please refer to our, 'Leave Or Be Removed!' Former Contributor at WFMZ. Dent appeared on CNN Thursday night and said the group talked about the possibility of forming a center right party due to their unhappiness with the direction of the GOP under Trump and the likelihood that Trump would be acquitted in his second impeachment trial. Of course there is also a group of voters that actually like his brand of politics and rhetorical approaches, and enthusiastically backed him, Borick said. Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost. In response, McClure said the former employees who have spoken are clearly aggrieved avowed anti-vaxxers. 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Lynch, of Northampton, has not run for office before, though he worked as a field organizer for Lisa Scheller in her 2020 congressional campaign against Rep. Susan Wild. McClure did issue an executive order in March 2020 restricting some ICE actions in the county courthouse after a man was taken into federal custody without presenting a warrant. Lynch said Tuesday he is running for the committee position to make some real solid changes in the GOP and bring back the Republican Party to constitutional principles.. Heres how. Snover said Friday she was unaware if the unannounced Republican candidates for executive were Trump supporters or more traditional Republicans. HALAJUN, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES - 2021/08/29: Steve Lynch, Republican candidate for Northampton County executive, speaks during the anti-vaccine, anti-mask mandate Rally for Freedom. Then she stumped for the Republican: Change needs to happen, she said, and it starts with Steve Lynch., Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure at a news conference in January 2020.Steve Novak | For lehighvalleylive.com. Over the weekend, he called for a brute takeover of school boards, not by electoral means, but simply by brute force. CORRECTION: Gloria Lee Snover, Mary Barket, Nancy Dienel, Craig DeFranco, John Brown and Linda Stubits presently represent the county on the State Committee. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Lynch, a suspected domestic terrorist, is running for Northampton County executive. Although Lynch said he didnt engage in violence at the rally, he has spread discredited conspiracy theories that the riot was fomented by left-wing groups. A more mainstream Republican may have defeated McClure, he said. He added that since Lynch participated and tried to incite a coup to overthrow our nation, it doesnt surprise me at all that hes threatening local school boards with violence.. If we just focus on the simple solution. Theyll have badges. at least two other executive candidates are expected to run in the May Republican primary, she said ? Make men men again. (I) have no idea whats going to impossible to answer that question at this time based off of what were going to see over the next few days and on Election Day.. A supporter of Steve Lynch, the Republican candidate for Northampton County executive, has a campaign sign and an image of former President Donald Trump in their vehicle's window during a news conference outside of Gracedale, the county-owned nursing home in Upper Nazareth Township, on Oct. 25, 2021.Steve Novak | For lehighvalleylive.com. They can leave or they can be removed.". They had said that current staff are overwhelmed following resignations or dismissals. Its a week until Election Day, and Steve Lynch, the Republican candidate for Northampton County executive, slung a slew of allegations at the current administration, ranging from conditions at the county-owned nursing home to illegal immigration and election impropriety. He's opposed by Republican challenger Steve Lynch, who has modeled his controversial campaign after Donald Trump. A Republican running for office in Pennsylvania is under fire after threatening to physically remove school board members who attempt to enact mask mandates. Unofficial results say McClure got 18,467 mail-in votes to Lynchs 3,327 votes. Steve Lynch, the Republican candidate for Northampton County executive, holds a news conference outside of Gracedale, the county-owned nursing home in Upper Nazareth Township, on Oct. 25, 2021. "Forget going into these school boards with frigging data. Part of HuffPost Politics. Incumbents Democrats Ron Heckman (Bethlehem), Lori Vargo-Heffner (Lower Saucon), Bill McGee (Northampton) and Tara Zrinski (Hanover) have each filed nomination petitions. ", Having worked the crowd into a froth, he put an exclamation point on it. 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John Brown, the last Republican to hold the county executive seat, now running for county council this year, said Lynch, who lives in the Northampton Area School District, may have a "different style . Steve Lynch, the Republican candidate for Northampton County executive, holds a news conference outside of Gracedale, the county-owned nursing home in Upper Nazareth Township, on Oct. 25, 2021.Steve Novak | For lehighvalleylive.com. To those statements, McClure said Lynch should have apologized for Lynchs Gracedale mailer. PA GOP Gov candidate Steve Lynch today: Forget going into these school boards with freaking data. Lets have that, he said. The John Birch/Tea Party/right wing extremist playbook is always the same: Start with local offices like school boards, take them over and use that as the launch point for higher office. You have permission to edit this article. Steve Lynch is representative of how they do that. Others from the county who filed to run for the state committee are Beverly Hernandez, Kristin Soldridge, Debra A. Biro, Matt Connolly, Joseph G. Moyer, Gerald L. Pritchard, Craig L. DeFranco, Margie Mandell, Matthew Flower, Katharina Morea, Annette Kuyan, Linda Gerenser Stubits, Richard Morea, Andrew Azan III, Melanie Heilman, Cindy OBrien, Jimmy Zumba and John Brown. I do not believe in violence. All rights reserved (About Us). But it worked. In August, Lynch controversially called for 20 strong men to oust school boards that require students to wear masks. All rights reserved (About Us). The Bethlehem Township Democrat is finishing his first term as executive and previously served a decade on County Council. Steve Lynch, Northampton, PA. 803 likes. is a newswriter for TPM based in New York. The Worldwide Rally for Freedom 3.5 at the Pennsylvania State Capitol was one of many coordinated events across the United States calling for an end to vaccine mandates. I am not satisfied with Tom Wolf or his secretary of state, he said. Kudos to all the towns for doing a good job communicating the changes. To be clear, it was a winnable election for the Republicans. Giving them the research and the data. Our journalism needs your support. McClure won with 37,985 votes to Lynchs 29,867 votes. Unofficial results have a split of three Democrats and two Republicans winning the five seats on Northampton County Council. Lynch has emerged as a controversial figure in the Northampton County executive race. The sixth place finisher, Republican Nicole Romanishan, is only 15 votes behind Brown. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. He participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the nations capitol, wearing a bulletproof vest and shouting, Its going down! He admits he received a visit from the FBI over his role, but no charges were filed. You go into these school boards to remove them. You go into school boards to remove em! "If it causes violence it's the person who does, they are responsible," he said. And speaking of hills: The Pennsylvania Capital-Star noted that Lynch attended Trumps Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6, which preceded the storming of the U.S. Capitol. The CRT craze was just the pretext to stir everything up, but tactics have now changed over to mask mandates since they can use the pandemic as an excuse to stir parents of young children up and make sure they endanger more lives. "Why would you say 20 strongmen? This is the kind of information we hope the study will uncover. Men. "So the rhetoric you are saying right now you believe is responsible and will not cause any violence?" Lynch posts videos almost every day on his Facebook page where he rails against the establishment and makes embittered remarks about COVID-19-related restrictions such as the mandatory wearing of masks. He made a rambling statement on his Facebook page Wednesday after unofficial results posted on the Northampton County elections website had him losing the election Tuesday to incumbent Democrat Lamont McClure. Nevertheless, there will be a number of strong men (and women) at Northamptons next few school board meetings. Steve Lynch, candidate for Northampton County executive, addresses an anti-masking crowd in Northampton Aug. 31. Lynch, who has not held office before, has built his campaign about being a megaphone for conservative talking points and issues. Breezy at times too.. Mostly cloudy with a shower possible late. Steve Lynch, candidate for Northampton County executive, addresses an anti-masking crowd in Northampton Aug. 31. **Does not apply to Comments, YouTube or any other embedded service ads. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. 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