With the general election less than two weeks away, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro kicked off his campaign bus tour in Erie on Saturday morning, where he was greeted by dozens of supporters.<\/p>\n
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Those who attended the kickoff rally said they are backing Shapiro for another term because they believe he has represented their interests and supported Pennsylvanians throughout his time in office.<\/p>\n
“He’s trying to save our democracy and trying to make sure that we have the right to vote,” said Jason Brendel.<\/p>\n
Other attendees said the reasons they voted for Shapiro in 2022 are the same reasons they plan to support him again in November.<\/p>\n
“He fought for us during the last four and got us through a lot of things and supported Pennsylvanians and helped us out,” said Robert Kindle.<\/p>\n
Some supporters also pointed to the economy and job creation, saying they believe Shapiro has helped bring new opportunities to communities across the commonwealth, including Erie.<\/p>\n
“He’s doing everything he can now to help. He’s bringing jobs into the area, bringing new businesses to the area,” said Mary Jackson.<\/p>\n
Education and labor rights were also among the issues supporters highlighted.<\/p>\n
“Strong schools and labor rights. My husband and I were both in unions, and we are hoping he still supports them,” said Sheri Campbell.<\/p>\n
Attendees said they hope Shapiro will continue working on issues affecting Pennsylvania residents and believe another four years in office would allow him to continue that work.<\/p>\n
Erie News Now requested an interview with Gov. Josh Shapiro following the rally, but the request was denied.<\/p>\n
Shapiro’s opponent, Republican candidate Stacy Garrity, is scheduled to visit Erie next Saturday for a pre-election rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the general election less than two weeks away, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro kicked off his campaign bus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[122117,4158,227,136,138,137,50256,33,128036,28,8060,94715],"class_list":["post-313516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-bus-tour","tag-democracy","tag-education","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-job-creation","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-labour-rights","tag-pennsylvania","tag-stacy-garrity","tag-supporters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}