Russ Diamond
Russ Diamond
Russell H. "Russ" Diamondis an entrepreneur, political activist, and politician from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. He attempted to secure ballot access as an Independent candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2006. He ran for Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor as a Republican in 2010. In 2014, he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, for the 102nd District...
historic people
The will of the people will make 2006 a historic year.
others support
All these have been through our support period. Others are going through the process.
bearing beware book pull themselves trick
They are going to pull out every trick in the book to get themselves re-elected. Beware of legislators bearing gifts.
formulate people transfer willing
I wanted to know how they wanted to formulate the transfer of power. I wanted to get some people in here who are willing to do work.
beauty freedom
Part of the beauty of freedom is that freedom is chaotic.
time
They can do it again. It?s time to take back our government.
bring heroes proud tired
Pennsylvania is tired of villains. We need heroes. I'm proud to bring you some of those heroes today.
changed fast realize run
Lawmakers should run, they should run fast and not look back. They should realize that things have changed in Pennsylvania.
candidates caused people publicly questioned together whether
This has caused consternation over our candidates publicly and in the press. People have questioned whether we can keep it together through the primary.
constitution drunk elect fight limit million office ownership people power versus written
I'm going to retake ownership of my constitution. The constitution was written to limit the power of those we elect to office. This fight is a very important one. There are 12.5 million Pennsylvanians and 253 people in office in Harrisburg, drunk on the power. They don't get it. Out here, it's us versus them.
candidates challenge fear group people star
I know when we started soliciting candidates to challenge incumbents that people had this fear that we would end up with a group of people right out of the Cantina from Star Wars.
watch
We have to watch out for anointed successors. That's what got us here in the first place.
middle potential
We're in the middle of vetting potential candidates.
against believe candidate chance deserves eventually introduce present races reduced strong themselves voters
There are some races where we will introduce more than one candidate. In these races, we believe each candidate deserves a chance to present themselves to the voters in their district. Each race against an incumbent, however, will eventually need to be reduced to one strong candidate before the primary.