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Tony DeLuca is not exactly a household name, and he would probably have preferred it that way. Instead of garnering big headlines and moving on to higher office, Tony was just a solid, standup guy, a reliable Democrat, serving in the Pennsylvania State House for a staggering twenty terms. First elected in 1982, Tony gave his all for the people he loved right up until the day he died at the age of 85 on October 9, 2022.
On Tuesday, a day short of a month after Tony’s death, the voters of Pennsylvania’s 32nd district showed their gratitude to this selfless public servant for his forty years of service to their community in a unique and memorable way: They elected him to a twenty-first term. You think Senator-elect John Fetterman, who can’t utter a coherent sentence, is bad? Meet Dead State Representative Tony DeLuca.
Tony is unlikely to be in any condition to serve out his next term, but you can’t fault him for trying. At 85, he was barely five years older than our sharp and sprightly alleged president of the United States, and just three years older than outgoing (hooray) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Grey Goose). Tony was younger than Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Cali. SSR), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.). Politicians at all levels are clinging to power long into their declining years these days; why should Tony DeLuca have been any different? So Pennsylvania voters couldn’t be faulted for supporting an octogenarian — if you don’t, you’re a white supremacist or an election denier or whatever the term du jour is for our moral superiors.
But there is that little other detail, the one that makes John Fetterman look like a picture of eloquence and energy by comparison. Yes, I’m referring to the inconvenient fact that good old Tony DeLuca is dead. Remember, he died a month before the election. That gave the voters of the 32nd district thirty days to discover that Tony had shuffled off this mortal coil and decide to vote for someone a bit more animated. That also gave the Democrats of Pennsylvania’s 32nd district thirty days to find a candidate who was actually breathing and announce that he or she or xe was taking Tony’s place.
Instead, Tony DeLuca was comfortably reelected. So what happened? Are Pennsylvania voters, or at very least those in the 32nd district, so woefully uninformed that they didn’t even notice that they were pulling the lever for a dead guy? Were they sitting on a folding chair in some hall Tuesday night, waiting uncomfortably for Tony to come out and give his victory speech and wondering where the heck he was? Are the voters who elected the vacant and incoherent John Fetterman really just finding their own level? And since they’re as vacant and incoherent as Fetterman himself, they didn’t realize that Tony DeLuca had somehow changed and just wasn’t saying or doing as much as he used to?
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wpm says
How are the general public with IQ numbers above room temperature (non-democrats non-Pennsylvanians) take democratic Pennsylvanian voters in Pennsylvania seriously ?Will the democratic party in Pennsylvania run oak trees or stone walls in state and federal elections races in near future election there?
Mark Spahn says
Tony DeLuca, a champion of Thanato-Americans.
commonsense says
Yes, the leading representative of the Deceased Community.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
He can lead the Dead Caucus in Congress
Rarely says
I suppose they were simply trying to honor him. A pretty silly way of doing it.
OTOH I guess it’s possible that the inevitable run-off election will give the replacement candidate an opportunity to run a full campaign. I prefer to believe that was not the motive.
somehistory says
Old habits die hard.
recall the test that schools once gave where they would pass out the papers and say, “Be sure to read all of the directions before you begin,” and the paper would have the first line to put your name and the second line was a question….and all the way to the bottom where the last one was something about not answering any questions except to put your name at the top of the page in the corner. The usual result was that most students answer all of the questions instead of just reading first and then writing their name.
Perhaps many voters in PA just didn’t know he was dead, or they were so accustomed to checking his name, it had become a habit and they didn’t give it thought.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
To be fair, I think Tony DeLuca will do less damage than Fetterman. But hey, maybe MSNBC can propose his name for president?
keith j says
Votes for a dead guy? I’ve heard it all!