Lynch Mob Targets Independent Female Running For State Committee

Last week, there was a meeting of the Northampton County GOP. Steve Lynch was there along with numerous of the candidates running for the state GOP Committee. This includes Margie Mandell. a mother of five who has written two books aimed at younger people. She's not among those running as a slate with Lee Snover. Nor is she teamed up with Lynch. She's her own person. According to several sources who were at that meeting, she was accosted by Lynch and his supporters. What's worse, the Lynch mob has openly discussed harming her. Lynch has stated toxic masculinity is back, and his cult is expressing this in a disgusting way. 

From what I've been able to discern, Mandell was originally a Steve Lynch supporter. She's handed out palm cards for him and other GOP candidates at the polls.  

After he lost the election, several people have noticed a change in Lynch's behavior. He's been angry and bitter at county meetings, blaming party volunteers for his loss. Their meetings have become stressful.

Perhaps he should look in a mirror. You don't campaign for NorCo Exec by giving speeches in Harrisburg.  Or sending a mailer that arrives the day after the election. Threatening to bring 20 strong men to remove Northampton School Directors did little to help him. 

Many Lynch supporters have began to distance themselves. Republican activist (and state committee candidate) Beverly Hernandez was at Lynch's campaign opening on a freezing January afternoon at the county courthouse. But his conduct has turned her off. She has referred to him on Facebook as a man "aggressively targeting anyone who stands in his march toward power." She has had to ask people not to "like" her comments about him on Facebook or Lynch will block them. 

As people distance themselves, Lynch has become even more apoplectic. 

His bizarre rant at me on Saturday afternoon, replete with invective and an actual invitation to fight him, demonstrates that he lacks the temperament for any position in which he must represent those whose core beliefs differ from his. More disturbing is that he called upon the Lynch mob to "blast" and "obliterate" me. 

Has he asked his minions to blast and obliterate Margie Mandell as well? It sure looks that way. Let me give you the down low on the Lynch Mob. 

The Lynch Mob (L to R): Mark Wagner, Wally Oswald, Benjamin Jacques
and Matthew Walter 

Lynch supports Lisa Scheller in the Republican Congressional primary for Pa.-07. She's running against Kevin Dellicker. Scheller should win this race, rather easily, but Dellicker is liked by many as well.  Lynch has repeatedly derided Dellicker as a liar, without explaining why. He has childishly poked fun at Dellicker's size. He is also ostracizing anyone who supports Dellicker, even if they are conservatives. 

This is what happened to Mandell. She is impressed by Dellicker.  When Lynch found out, he banned her from his Facebook page. When she asked him about it after last week's Republican meeting, my sources say he went into a tirade. "You're out of control," Mandell is reported to have said to him after he started blowin' oil. "You're turning your friends into enemies."

Lynch appeals to our dark side. The Lynch mob follows him everywhere and even imitates him. Here's an example. Lynch likes to do Facebook Lives while driving, and so they've all started doing it, too. Sooner or later, one of them is going to have a serious accident. 

This mob likes to carry, too, especially at outdoor rallies along the sides of roads   

One of these lemmings is Nazareth resident Benjamin "Bengy" Jacques. He was at last week's meeting with Lynch and was present went Lynch exploded at Mandell.  After the meeting and altercation with Mandell, he posted this on Facebook: "Watch your back when you create enemies out of those you once called friends."

Then the intimidation, blasting, obliterating and bullying started. 

"Who we taking out?"asked Wally Oswald. "And who's [sic] car we taking?" Oswold is from Northampton and part of the Lynch mob. 

Melanie Heilman, a rabid Lynch supporter from Bethlehem Tp, refers to Mandell, not by her name, but as a "b...." "That's the one problem."

Then Jamie M Lichner joins in. He may not even have been at the meeting, but was offering a final solution. "[A]re they little problems or big problems, meaning are the 5.56 problems or .308 problems or,…. Do we have .50BMG to problems, You got problems, I’ll solve it, check out the beat while my DJ revolves it."

"What do you recommend for unicorns?" asks Matthew Walter. Mandell has purple hair, and Walker was joking about it.  

Walter was also at that meeting. Before it started, he was broadcasting a Facebook Live from his car, just like his hero. He spotted a Republican he identified as "JB". He called JB, probably John Brown, one of the biggest RINOs there is.  

Todd Wallach (from Nazareth) writes, "Be kind to everyone, but be ready to kill anyone."  I'm sure James Mattis would be disgusted to see his quote perverted to terrorize someone.

So basically, what we have here is a collection of toxic males who like to prance around with guns, terrorizing a woman with hints of violence because of her political beliefs. She is not a "demon Democrat," but a conservative. 

So much for the First Amendment.

Unlike Lynch's cult followers, Margie Mandell refuses to drink the kool-aid. So they will intimidate and bully her and show off their toxic masculinity and affinity for guns.That's what their master wants. 

That's Lynch and his mob in a nutshell.

And I mean nutshell. 

When I spoke to Mandell, she directed me to this message on her Facebook page:

Let's talk about unison within our Republican Party, that as of late, has become rather shredded and torn. Where should the band-aids be placed within our Grand Old Party, to fix what has become so wholeheartedly broken?

The heinous corruption of our American government does not start at the president's desk. It starts within the state, within the counties, and lastly, within the hearts of the members who choose to support and vote for the Republican Party.

It starts with you.

It starts the minute someone decides to run for a position.

It starts when someone else runs against them.

It starts when a friend turns his back because you don't agree with his political opinion.

It starts when the "us vs. them" mentality takes over.

Within our very own party... hatred seeps through steadily like a slow, low rolling fog. Evil corruption thriving in the breeding grounds of hate and pride.

My point is, if you are running for office to conquer the corruption, then take a good look within yourself first. Make sure your intent is not fueled by evil and the seeds you sow now are sewn out of patriotic love, honesty and a pure desire to be a servant to the people. Make sure you, as an individual, is not one of the pieces of the problem.

Remember who the real enemy is.

-Margie Mandell for State Committee

These grown men should know that terroristic threats and harassment are crimes. Although Jacques uttered no specific threat, he was telling Mandell to watch her back. He allowed the mob to be more specific on his Facebook page. This is pure bullying.  If Jacques were a real man, he'd apologize. So would the thugs who hinted at violence,