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Pennsylvania’s treasurer faces an uphill battle as she tries to unseat incumbent Democrat Josh Shapiro. With just days left until the election, Garrity visited Erie to meet with voters and discuss the issues driving her campaign.<\/p>\n
Her campaign is focused on expanding Pennsylvania’s energy production, lowering utility costs and property taxes, and changing state spending and government transparency.<\/p>\n
“All inflation starts with energy, OK, so what that’s gonna do is when we lift that moratorium, that’s gonna generate five to six billion dollars in revenue every year and create 200,000 good-paying, family-sustaining jobs, and it’s gonna benefit everybody,” Garrity said.<\/p>\n
Garrity says affordability is the concern she’s hearing most from voters in Erie and across the state.<\/p>\n
Voters we talked with shared other issues on their minds.<\/p>\n
“Men and women’s sports: I don’t wanna see it happen. I’d like to see that she is working legislatively,” voter Bob Cawthon said.<\/p>\n
“If we can get more business in Butler County or more industry, I think it’d be a great idea,” voter Frank Zelinka said.<\/p>\n
On data centers, Garrity says communities should have a say in where they’re built, and she doesn’t want to see them in residential areas or on farmland.<\/p>\n
“They need closed-loop systems for water usage, and periodically you have to recycle that, and when you do, you might make sure we treat it, so we don’t dump PFAS in the water,” Garrity said.<\/p>\n
Despite recent polls showing Governor Shapiro ahead, Garrity is using these final days to make one last push to voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania’s treasurer faces an uphill battle as she tries to unseat incumbent Democrat Josh Shapiro. With just days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,115306,33,28,8060],"class_list":["post-318619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-governor-campaign","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-stacy-garrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318619","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=318619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}