Earlier I told you that former Easton City Councilwoman Taiba Sultana was blaming State Senator Lisa Boscola for ICE. I said then she was going to run against Boscola in this year’s primary. Bernie O’Hare reports that she is now officially in. I’m setting her final percentage over/under at 22.5% if anyone wants to place a friendly wager. I’ll even give you +100.

The 18th District is simply not a leftist district. Yes, it’s a solidly Democratic seat, but I doubt many of us would vote for Karl Marx here. Lisa Boscola generally votes how this district’s people actually are- more conservative than Philadelphia and more liberal than Pennsyltucky. I am sure that some voters would like Senator Boscola to move left, but it isn’t really wise for the seat. If Taiba were going to run as a potential Senator in the mold of some of the Philadelphia delegation, she might even receive enough support *in the primary* to be scary, but come up short. She’s going to try and run to the left of that though. She’s also going to promise things that simply aren’t going to pass the Pennsylvania Senate, which also does have Senators like Doug Mastriano from Pennsyltucky too. This is a campaign to do nothing in Harrisburg, and it’s a campaign to represent close to no one.

Taiba is a nice person in person, though I found her campaign against Rep. Freeman in 2024 to really bother me. Insinuating that Bob Freeman is responsible for genocide anywhere is literally insane. There was also the whole petition forgery controversy in 2024 where someone signed Sultana’s petition as Senator Boscola from a totally fake address and obviously it wasn’t Senator Boscola, which was just weird. Obviously there was the arrest too, which I give her more slack for than most (People make mistakes, and while her’s was bad, there’s plenty of reasons to not support her that don’t involve judging her as a parent), but she seemed to be completely oblivious to the optics of the situation and launched an impossible State House campaign while it was ongoing. Of course there was also her continual attempts to pass a resolution from Easton City Council on Gaza, which really is not something Easton City Council is supposed to be doing. I can’t think of one argument to elect this woman in 2026. We’re going to get a steady diet of far-left rhetoric, identity politics of the cheapest grade, and personal attacks here. It’s pointless.

Lisa Boscola isn’t going to lose this race. Most voters aren’t going to take it overly seriously. Had Jon Irons run, he may have put forward a credible opposition to her, even though he would have lost too. Sultana has too many problems to answer for, and she will be forced to answer for them if she tries to make this nasty. In the end, this kind of politics just has to be stopped.