Next Tuesday, every registered voter in Pennsylvania will get a say in who is their governor for the next four years.
Here are all three candidates and their day one priorities:
Ken Krawchuk, the Libertarian, wants to decrease funding to public schools to instead send out $11,000 scholarships for each student that parents can use to cover private school tuition– in hopes to eliminate property tax and free marketize education.
“I’m mad as hell! Do you know that more than half the kids in our public schools cannot read at grade level more than half. Almost two thirds can’t do math at grade level,” Krawchuk said.
Other day one priorities include cutting $3 billion in state programs– like horse racing subsidies, state liquor store advertisements, and paying for party primaries. And-
“The first thing I would do is get the ball rolling to pardon all nonviolent drug offenders. Day one,” Krawchuk said.
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Stacy Garrity, the Republican, wants less bureaucracy for small businesses.
“We have 166,000 regulations. And so to do anything as a small business, you know, you’re dealing with so many multiple agencies, duplicative forms, a lot of red tape,” Garrity said.
She also said she’d sign an executive order banning biological males from female sports, opt into a federal education tax credit, and prioritize energy costs.
“The first thing that we’re going to do is get rid of the moratorium that we have on drilling on public lands,” Garrity said.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro, the Democrat, describes himself as a strategic buffer between republican president Donald trump and potential harm to Pennsylvanians.
“The other thing I’m thinking about is how to fight back against this chaos, how to stand up against the cruelty, and how not to tolerate his corruption in America,” Shapiro said at a recent rally.
Day one wishlists include protecting abortion in the constitution, a housing plan to reduce housing costs, loosening statue of limitations on bringing criminal charges for sexual abuse, and-
“The first bill that will be on my desk in January 2027 will be to raise the minimum wage to $15,” Shapiro said.