
Douglas Vincent Mastriano (2 January 1964-) was a member of the Pennsylvania Senate (R-34) from 10 June 2019, succeeding Richard Alloway.
Biography
Douglas Vincent Mastriano was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1964, the son of Italian-American parents. He was raised in Hightstown, Mercer County, and he became a Christian under the influence of an evangelical youth pastor. He went on to serve in the US Army from 1986 to 2017, serving in the Gulf War and Iraq War and attaining the rank of colonel. In 2018, he made an unsuccessful bid for the US House of Representatives, but he was elected to the State Senate a year later. He controversially stated, "Islam wants to kill gay rights, Judaism, Christianity, and pacifism," claimed that Muslims burned down the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris, claimed that Muslims running for office was a dangerous trend, and controversially posed in a Confederate uniform while serving on the faculty of the Army War College in 2014. In 2022, he ran for Governor of Pennsylvania, bragged that his potential administration would be even more conservative than Ron DeSantis' regime in Florida, argued athat abortion was a "barbaric holocaust", embraced Christian nationalism, opposed efforts to ban conversion therapy, supported reversing environmental protections, received Donald Trump's endorsement, accused the Jewish businessman George Soros of being a Nazi, and hired Oath Keepers as guards for his campaign.