The feud between Havey and Gale dates back to the 2015 Primary, when an unendorsed, 26-year-old Gale, stunned MCRC, and beat one of their endorsed candidates for County Commissioner, Lower Merion Commissioner Scott Zelov.
Gale added insult to injury when he ran a “Bullet Vote campaign” and won the general election that year, and became the Minority Commissioner, a position he continues to hold.
Four years later, Joe Gale ran for re-election with his younger brother Sean, as a “slate” in the Republican Primary. Joe was one of the two winners in the 2019 primary race for County Commissioner, but Sean came in an “out-of-the-money” fourth place.
Joe blamed Sean’s loss on Havey, who he claimed was responsible for distributing thousands of “fake green ballots” that supposedly showed that Fred Conner and Dean Eisenberger were endorsed by the MCRC, when in fact it was supposed to be an “Open Primary
Gales Fires Back
On Saturday, Gale shot back at Havey (who he often calls a “swamp party boss”), claiming that she “contributed to both this year’s and last year’s mail-in voting messes by instructing Republican voters to cast their ballots by mail.”
The Gale Brothers Have Set Their Sights on Bigger Things
Joe Gale is now running for Governor of Pennsylvania, and brother Sean is a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
They have “branded” their campaign as Cup of Joe. Several times-a-week, Joe posts a picture of himself on Facebook, (and sometimes Sean appears too) talking to group voters in somebody’s living room. Joe Gale first deployed The Cup of Joe strategy during first run for Commissioner.