Some people just don’t learn. In 2019, Taiba Sultana ran for Mayor. She lost by over 50% of the vote, with 23% and change. In 2024, she ran against Bob Freeman for the State House in District 136. Look, I’d tell you Jesus would lose to Bob in his district by 10%. The race was weird, with a lot of attention to Sultana’s campaign allegedly forging signatures and of course, her arrest for allegedly assaulting her son. Bob beat her with third-world dictator level margins, winning 77.4% to 22.5%, a mind numbing margin. So of course this election cycle she started blaming Lisa Boscola for ICE, before of course announcing she was challenging her for the 18th State Senate District. I called her candidacy “quixotic” and predicted a ridiculous loss. It went worse than that. Sultana was removed from the ballot by not just the Commonwealth Court, but then had that removal upheld by the Supreme Court. In other words, she can’t even run because she didn’t do her petitions right.

Apparently that wasn’t enough for Sultana. Losing to Sal Panto and Bob Freeman by over 50% just didn’t cut it. Now she’s apparently going to run as a write-in. Of course, this is going to go even worse yet. Her former supporters in the local Democratic Socialists are investigating misconduct towards staff, and are calling on members to pause all help for her campaign. Never mind the pattern here, I’ll stick to the mechanics- write-ins almost always fail, and to have any chance at all, require an army of volunteers. Where is she finding them? If DSA is out, that’s not an option. Lehigh Valley 4 All won’t even let her in meetings to speak, so it won’t be them. The Easton Democrats? Not happening.

Kim Jong Un recently got 99.93% of the vote in North Korea’s parliamentary leadership election. The only real question is how close to that Senator Boscola will finish. With Sultana not appearing on the ballot, not having volunteers, and having all kinds of negative coverage of her, there’s no way she won’t lose even worse than she did against Panto and Freeman. I only have two questions really- first, will she get more votes than she needed petition signatures (500) and second, will she crack 10%? Her losing streak is approaching that of the Philadelphia Phillies, but at least sometimes those games are close. This won’t be anything like that.