{"id":317973,"date":"2026-10-31T00:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317973\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T00:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:38:32","slug":"day-1-priorities-pennsylvanias-gubernatorial-candidates-harrisburg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317973\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 Priorities; Pennsylvania\u2019s Gubernatorial Candidates | Harrisburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next Tuesday, every registered voter in Pennsylvania will get a say in who is their governor for the next four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are all three candidates and their day one priorities:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u2013 in hopes to eliminate property tax and free marketize education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m 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\u2019t do math at grade level,\u201d Krawchuk said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other day one priorities include cutting $3 billion in state programs\u2013 like horse racing subsidies, state liquor store advertisements, and paying for party primaries. And-<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe first thing I would do is get the ball rolling to pardon all nonviolent drug offenders. Day one,\u201d Krawchuk said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenk4pa.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here for campaign website<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stacy Garrity, the Republican, wants less bureaucracy for small businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have 166,000 regulations. And so to do anything as a small business, you know, you\u2019re dealing with so many multiple agencies, duplicative forms, a lot of red tape,\u201d Garrity said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also said she\u2019d sign an executive order banning biological males from female sports, opt into a federal education tax credit, and prioritize energy costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe first thing that we\u2019re going to do is get rid of the moratorium that we have on drilling on public lands,\u201d Garrity said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/garrityforpa.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here for campaign website<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gov. Josh Shapiro, the Democrat, describes himself as a strategic buffer between republican president Donald trump and potential harm to Pennsylvanians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe other thing I\u2019m 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,\u201d Shapiro said at a recent rally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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-<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe first bill that will be on my desk in January 2027 will be to raise the minimum wage to $15,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/joshshapiro.org\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23904686091&amp;gbraid=0AAAABCth6jgZmff0LBhm2ZbnO-1nVTg43&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwgJHXBhBGEiwAHohJq9anHb7Ap_Quo6n87zVnqJc9b8OrEAtWSEFtapR62CkXd_dGtF0NHBoCMI8QAvD_BwE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here for campaign website<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next Tuesday, every registered voter in Pennsylvania will get a say in who is their governor for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2288,37,28,5929,30,29],"class_list":["post-317973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bureau","tag-harrisburg","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-capitol","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317973","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=317973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}