It’s become almost impossible to watch Broadcast TV without seeing an ad for either Dr. Oz or Dave McCormick – telling you that the other guy is a RINO (Republican in Name Only).
But the Pennsylvania Republican Senate race is like an Oxfordian Debate Society compared to what’s going back and forth between two candidates running in the Republican Primary for Lt. Governor.
Russ Diamond, a state representative from Lebanon County, fired the first volley in a 6-minute, self-narrated video posted on Youtube, on April 14. It’s called “Meet the Real Teddy Daniels.”
Diamond starts off by calling into question Daniels’s claims that he is a “retired police officer and a successful business entrepreneur.” The video reveals Daniels’s Statement of Financial Interests. According to the document, the only income that Daniels reported, came from Social Security Disability and from Veterans Benefits.
Diamond questions why Daniels shows no pension benefits, if in fact he served 15 years as a policeman, as Daniels has claimed. Diamond also notes that Daniels has received Social Security Disability Benefits since 2017. In which case, as Diamond points out, Daniels would be ineligible to earn income from any other job.
However, Diamond’s video documents any number of businesses that Daniels has been involved with recently – which tends to give some credence to Daniels’s claims of being an entrepreneur. On the other hand, all those “enterprises” calls into question the accuracy of his Statement of Financial Interests, and the legitimacy of his disability benefits claim.
One of Daniels’s “gigs” that Diamond mentions in his video, seems to have triggered Daniels. It involved Jamie Robbins, Daniels’s current wife.
The day after Diamond’s video appeared on Youtube, Daniels came back with one of his own that he posted on Facebook. Several times in his video, Daniels refers to Diamond as Joe Dirt, although one time he slipped and called him Russ Diamond.
Joe Dirt talks about businesses that I have. And he went as far as to bring my wife into this hit. And that’s one he’s gonna have to pay for. We know he likes to beat up women, but Joe Dirt – you and I are going to be in the same room … We know you like to put your hands on women. I am curious to see what you’re going to do with a man standing in front of you…
You are the lowest, scummiest, dirtiest, form of a thing on the face of the earth. And boy, you poked the wrong bear [Daniels is 6’4″, 360 pounds]… You bring my wife into things – you’re going to have to answer for that, and it’s not going to be over a video. Okay? Just so you know. Just so you’re aware. That’s something that needs to be handled … We’re gonna see how you react when a man stands in front of you.
What appears to be a visibly shaken Russ Diamond, posted a “selfie-video” on Friends of Russ Diamond (the Facebook Page for his re-election to the State House. Diamond is on the ballot for Lt. Governor as well as for his House position), on Thursday, April 28. Diamond shares that he has stopped along Route 6, having come from a meet-and-greet in Wayne County, which is where Daniels lives.
Diamond expresses his surprise that after posting his video about Daniels, “a lot of people just doubled down. And they resorted to attacking me, the messenger – rather than refuting the actual factual information that we put out… they doubled down, just doubled down, and just believed that I was making something up.”
Sources who have asked to remain anonymous, tell us that Diamond is safe, in an underground bunker, somewhere in an undisclosed location, where he seems content to keep quiet and watch Teddy Daniels gather lots of “bad attention,” without any help from Diamond.
There’s a popular belief that “there’s no such thing as bad publicity.”
That notion will be confirmed if Teddy Daniels is elected Lt. Governor, because he got some really bad national publicity in the form of a Rolling Stone story about him on Wednesday (April 27).
Within hours of Rolling Stone reporting that Daniels “was removed from his home this week after his wife asked a court for emergency protections against abuse. This is at least the third relationship in which Daniels has been accused in court documents of mistreating a female partner.” –
Daniels was back on Facebook with another angry video in which he claims that he is “the victim of three unjust and unwarranted swatting incidents.” He goes on to say that “this is political terrorism.” Daniels said. “the liberal media tries to jump in and try to create something. There is also potential involvement in this from one of my primary opponents.”
As Daniels explains, “swatting is when people call in a crime from a different area, when there is no crime that has actually happened.” He assured his audience that “this is all a bunch of fabricated BS.”
In the video, Daniels does have a moment of reflection, and says “knowing that The Left was going to come after me the way they did, and knowing that others were going to come after me the way they did, it put a lot of strain, and it put a lot of hardship on my family. You know, my wife, she asked me to drop several times – because of the weight of the world coming down on us. And I told her, I said, ‘I love you, but I ain’t dropping.’ This is what they want. And I’m not going to let them win … in a weird way it’s kind of flattering because I never thought that I was that big of a target. I never thought that I was that big of a threat – that Rolling Stone Magazine would involve themselves – possibly – possibly involve themselves – in a situation to orchestrate things behind the scenes. And you wonder why people don’t run for office. Guys, I didn’t pay the blood money. I didn’t pay the buyout money. I didn’t pay the protection money. You know, when you put yourself out there, and I guess the Left starts getting scared, you know, they think they can come and get you.
On Monday (May 2), Daniels posted another video. In this one, he introduced his Facebook audience to his lawyer, Jen GV Gilliland Vanasdale.
She described the Rolling Stone Article as a “political hit job.” Gilliland Vanasdale added that “within 60 minutes of an out-of-state call, Sunday, April 24 – to the Pennsylvania State Police, to swat the home of Teddy Daniels, a reporter was contacting the authorities, looking for comments. There is no way for Rolling Stone to have known about the call.”
Showing an April 24 court order, denying a request for a temporary PFA (Protection from Abuse), Jen GV Gilliland Vanasdale, Teddy Daniel’s lawyer, thrusts a bayonet through the heart of Rolling Stones’ allegation.
But
What appears to be another court order (or is it just a well-made forgery?) dated April 26 (that would be two days after the one Daniels’s lawyer showcased in their video) that grants a Temporary Protection From Abuse Order to Jaime Daniels, Teddy Daniels’s wife.
And
Attached to what some people are saying is a PFA against Teddy Daniels, is this hand-written statement by Jaime Daniels. Click here to read the whole alleged court order.
Teddy Will Have His Day In Court On May 6
On Friday (May 6), Teddy Daniels and his lawyer will appear before a Wayne County Common Pleas Court judge, and will ask to have the PFA (that they say wasn’t issued in the first place) rescinded.
Other Than Its Appeal To Some Of Our Prurient Interests, Is There Any Other Reason Why We Should Be Paying Attention This This Mud-Wrestling Exhibition?
Actually, there is. Teddy Daniels was endorsed by Doug Mastriano, who according to most polls, is leading in the GOP Gubernatorial Race. City and State reported that a poll “conducted by a Democratic pollster and reviewed by City & State, surveyed 800 likely Republican primary voters between April 18 and April 21. Of the voters surveyed, Mastriano leads the Republican field with support from 28% of voters, a 14-point lead over the next-closest candidate, former U.S. attorney Bill McSwain.”
In a crowded field (there are nine candidates on the Republican ballot for Lt. Governor), it stands to reason that the one who is endorsed by the front-runner would have a good chance of winning a plurality.
.
Since the Rolling Stone article was published, Mastriano has posted more than 100 times on his Facebook Page, but there hasn’t been a single mention of his “running mate,” Teddy Daniels. In fact, it appears that Mastriano has removed an April 5 Facebook Video in which he “enthusiastically endorsed” Daniels, calling him “an American Hero and Patriot.”
May 7 - Doug Mastriano Rally in Fayette County, PA.
— Fuller Rath (@FullerRath) May 2, 2022
Teddy Daniels LISTED on the original ad.
Teddy Daniels REMOVED from the UPDATED ad.
Crickets from Doug Mastriano,
on his FaceBook live videos and posts.
Nada. Nothing.
It's as if his running mate Teddy Daniels just vaporized. pic.twitter.com/DCDZJNVzIc
.
If you like this story, please share it.
[…] has endorsed Teddy Daniels for Lt. Governor. MCRC wasn’t doing Mastriano or Daniels any favors by promoting the article […]