Two-and-a-half months after he was dispatched in the gubernatorial primary, Republican Sam Rohrer’s most ardent supporters are still working toward a write-in campaign for the state lawmaker.
The Inquirer reports that the still modestly-sized group is getting more organized, with one supporter hoping that as many as 50,000 people will write Rohrer onto their ballots. Two Web sites are up and running, PatriotsForSamRohrer and SamRohrerWriteIn. Any significant number of votes for Rohrer would almost certainly help Democrat Dan Onorato in a close race against GOP nominee Tom Corbett.
Rohrer, for his part, has yet to embrace the effort, but is hardly striking it down.
“I think what you’re seeing right now is that people don’t want to just roll over and go back to the same thing they did before,” he told the newspaper. “They don’t want to lower their standard and vote for someone they cannot agree with. … I am not going to quell someone who is stepping forward on a point of principle.”
