Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro rallied on Pittsburgh’s South Side Saturday as part of a stop on his get-out-the-vote statewide bus tour.<\/p>\n
The event was held at the IBEW Local 5 Hall 10 days before Election Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shapiro, Lt. Governor Austin Davis, Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O’Connor and other local Democrats spoke at the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In his speech, Shapiro didn’t mention his opponent, Stacy Garrity, and instead talked about President Trump and Shapiro’s own accomplishments over his four years in office.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Over the next 10 days, vote like the future of our country depends on it,” Shapiro told the crowd. “Let’s get to work. Let’s fight. Let’s win.”<\/p>\n
Shapiro used the setting of the union hall to highlight his labor support. He shared that under his leadership, the commonwealth would never become a right-to-work state.<\/p>\n
If Democrats take control of the Pennsylvania State Senate, he said the first thing they will do is raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shapiro said in office he has protected voting rights, invested in downtown Pittsburgh, and bent the ear of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to bring the NFL Draft to the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On President Trump, he blamed the 47th president for the state’s nearly 1,500 measles cases.<\/p>\n
He said the Iran war has cost Americans, calling it a chaos tax.<\/p>\n
Shapiro said he stood up to ICE and stood for reproductive freedoms.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“When I sit behind that desk, I fight for you every single day. When I sit behind that desk, I stand up to the bullies who try and undermine our interest in Pennsylvania, and I stand up to this president with his lawlessness, with his corruption, with his efforts to undermine our freedoms here in Pennsylvania,” Shapiro said.<\/p>\n
This was just day one of his statewide bus tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shapiro’s challenger, Stacy Garrity, spoke in the Pittsburgh area\u00a0last week<\/a>, rallying with skill game operators in Greentree.<\/p>\n She told that crowd Shapiro did not care about them and sold them out. She also said Shapiro cares more about Pennsylvania Avenue than Pennsylvania families.<\/p>\n Garrity said people in Pennsylvania deserve better than what they’ve gotten over the past four years.\u00a0<\/p>\n