Upper Darby GOP

11/04/2025

11/03/2025

11/03/2025

A statement from Upper Darby First District Candidate Dave Schaffer:

Election Day is this Tuesday, November 4th. The polls are open from 7AM - 8PM. I humbly ask the voters of Upper Darby’s 1st District for their support for Township Council. I don’t think it is overstating the case to say that the future of our community is at stake. I believe long term residents and those who moved here only recently came here to raise their families in a neighborhood that for decades has been home of the American Dream.

However, in recent years that aspiration has been undermined. Whether unreasonable and overly burdensome taxation, declining services, underperforming schools, deteriorating infrastructure, or rising crime, too many residents feel the sense of community and safety that once defined our neighborhoods is slipping away.

This is not a coincidence. It is not because of a natural disaster or some external force. The quality of life in our neighborhoods is declining because of this township administration’s poor leadership, bad policies, and mismanagement of our finances. Poor decision making has resulted in the inability to adequately invest in our community.

The number one thing I have heard over these last 8 months knocking on doors and talking to our neighbors is that our quality of life in Upper Darby is on the decline. Our taxes go up every year. When this administration cannot raise property taxes high enough to cover their astronomical spending increases, they invent new taxes that only punish the most vulnerable among us.

There is more trash in our streets. There is more crime in our neighborhoods. We used to see police cars patrolling our streets proactively, now we only see them responding to the most recent crisis.

Residents in the 1st District are uneasy about several new development proposals near Drexeline and along Township Line. They deserve a representative on council that is visible, engaged, and accessible - able
to be an advocate on their behalf.

In addition to the township’s challenges, the county government will raise taxes 50 percent over three years, the school district takes more money from taxpayers every year only to produce worse results.

There is an old saying that goes, “all politics is local”. This Tuesday, I ask you to consider whether you feel like the local is headed in the right direction. If you believe we can do better, we deserve better, it used to be better, you want better, it starts with coming out to vote. I need your support this Tuesday

11/02/2025

****Alert**** and please see my daughter's video refuting Kyle McIntyre and Noah Fields, where some of these Democrats, in my opinion, support criminals. If you know me Please share everywhere.
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After all my years dealing with people I always thought I was a good judge of character as I was led to believe that it was Noah Fields who was the instigator of this attack into my character. I was mistaken. Turns out that the person in the shadows doing this smear campaign, in my learned opinion, after being told by those involved in doing this story, it was none other that KYLE McINTYRE- the same man who pointed his finger at his dear friend and running mate, Noah Fields, as the culprit, which effectively threw Fields under the bus to protect himself. This is same person that had swore to me up and down last weekend that he had nothing to do with this article.

Turns out he was the one that has been researching my past trying desperately to find anything to hurt me and my family all along. Ultimately he couldn't. So, question to Mr. McIntyre - did you not think that I wouldn't find out that it you all along. It was you, Kyle, who stayed hidden in the shadows and promulgated this campaign to destroy my reputation and chances of winning my election for the 3rd District. Are you so obsessed with damaging me that you didn't realize that these people you went to were some of the same media I've worked over the years, during which they earned my trust as I have theirs. To be fair, I tried to reach out to you over the past 36 hours and see if we could talk, but received no response. Probably best because all you would have done was lie to my face again.

I can honestly say, in my opinion, that you are, without a doubt, one of the most disingenuous people I have ever met in my life. And it's been a long life. I do want to advise my many supporters in my run for the 3rd District that I've always supported Laura Wentz because she doesn't go party lines, she goes for what's best for the people, like myself.

Thank you. And please note: that as dastardly as some of these democratic party members have gone in their attempt to discredit my public service, I do believe the rest will actually blush with embarrassment (if there is any humility left) knowing that they are endorsing such a person as Kyle McIntyre and Noah Fields. One can only hope. So, in closing, you both really wanted name recognition. Well, now you got it. Now everyone, everywhere, will know who you are and what is really in your heart. That this is how you'd represent Upper Darby constituents and also handle any anything you both would find as a threat to yourselves or the democratic party. So, Noah, and especially you Kyle, all I can say is I hope it was worth it.

11/01/2025

10/31/2025

10/30/2025

Statement from Upper Darby Third District Candidate Bob Yantorno:

I recently learned that some candidates for the Upper Darby Democratic party collaborated with their allies in the press in an effort to undermine my campaign for Upper Darby Third District Council. I suspect they fear I might win. They fear having a member of council that served as a Police Commander, who will not tolerate their efforts to defund our police. They fear having to be held accountable for the policies that have bankrupted our township. They dismiss my nearly 50 years in uniform defending our country and our communities because they fundamentally misunderstand what it means to be a public servant rather than a self serving, transactional politician.

Their antics have only served to strengthen my resolve, rally support, and remind us all what is at stake in this election. They cannot win a war of ideas, so they lie, smear, and peddle the same tired accusations of racism and bigotry. Meanwhile their policies, which result in regressive taxation, fiscal mismanagement, cuts in services, underperforming schools, and social disorder - consistently hurt the most vulnerable among us the most. Such hypocrisy.

While I advocate for law and order, they make excuses for rapists and murders. While I advocate to get our fiscal house in order, they raise taxes every chance they get. While I advocate for what makes Upper Darby great, they make excuses and manage decline.

As a father of mixed race children, I have experienced real racism first hand with them. It is a scourge on our society and should not be tolerated. So too are disingenuous, politically motivated accusations of racism made by the cynical and selfish intended only to tear us apart.

So, when their phony accusations surfaced in a recent story, I was surprised when one of their own candidates approached me to apologize profusely. So, I decided that I want to thank that young man for stepping up and doing the right thing. Kyle McIntyre, a Democrat candidate for Upper Darby Council At-Large, told me that he had nothing to do with their plot. He told me that he pleaded with his fellow running mate, NOAH FIELDS, to do the right thing and not spread lies about a decent, public-service oriented man he has known for some time as we live just a block away from each other on the same street. When he told me it was his running mate Noah Fields, who was determined to ruin my 48-year reputation of serving country and community, I was mystified because I have never spoken to Mr. Fields and know nothing about him. But I would like him to know that me and my family will never forget what you tried to do to me.

As for Kyle. We may disagree on a lot. I disagree with his support for the Earned Income Tax. And I disagree with his past advocacy for dismantling the Upper Darby Police Department’s SWAT team and concerned about his record of leading anti-police protests that I feared misrepresented our local police department’s record in a way that could present a danger to our community. Buy after this meeting we had on Saturday, our policy disagreements notwithstanding, Kyle did the right thing by apologizing to me directly, defending my integrity, and exposing the truth about who was behind their lies. So, Kyle, if the stars align, you and I will both be on council to represent our residents, as we spoke of. You are bigger man than most to buck your party and stand for what is right. We both agreed a few times over the course of this campaign to take no cheap shots and to keep this campaign spirited and honest. Well, after speaking with Kyle I can say he more than kept his word, BECAUSE, in the world where I and the vast majority of adults in this country and around the World live once you swear on something all would be lost if it wasn't truthful. So, People of Upper Darby, you ought to know about the sincere apologies Kyle made on behalf of his running mate Noah Fields and that is why I want to thank him publicly because of the salacious accusations were made public about me. Kyle...you are a stand up guy. I know this may be contrary to running my campaign to speak of a candidate from the Democratic side of the aisle but what is right, is right.

I look forward to seeing everyone out in the neighborhood this week and at the polls next Tuesday. Onward!

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

📌 Get your pins ready!
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We’re just ONE WEEK away from Election Day!

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10/27/2025

Vote for Bobby Yantorno for Upper Darby Township Council 3rd District.

10/27/2025

Picas didn’t go out of business, they left Upper Darby.