A lot of time and energy has been wasted over the last two months by very intelligent people wringing their hands and hoping that somebody, anybody will show up and give them direction. And it’s beyond time that my fellow Democrats remember that our national government is just one part of a very, very big party. If you look to the state and local level, we have talent, leadership, and accomplishments that we can be proud of. Issues we can run on, and win on.
Stop looking to the Potomac and Senator Schumer and look, instead, to the Susquehanna and Governor Shapiro. While the Republican Party has decided that up and down the ballot, from sea to shining sea, they want to be the party of chaos, Governor Shapiro has been consistent that PA Democrats are the party of good government. While the GOP is trying to spin manic chainsaw politics and mass layoffs of veterans as medicine for our country, State Representative Perry Warren is leading the charge to enshrine the Affordable Care Act’s protections in state law.
While Republicans are waging war on American jobs and industry with Schrödinger’s tariffs, our Bucks County state delegation of Sen. Santarsiero and Reps. Davis, Brennan, and Prokopiak are securing jobs for our county and investing in our freight rail infrastructure, ensuring that Bucks strengthens our history as a transportation hub and a region where we invest in industries vital to the strength of the United States. While Trump’s trade tantrums are undermining the financial security of blue collar families, our local leaders are doing the quiet work of good, stable governance.
In Washington, the Secretary of Agriculture is slashing staff (or some 20-something Silicon Valley interns are doing it for her, we’re not quite sure and the government isn’t really saying) while an outbreak of bird flu is spreading through the country. This agricultural and public health crisis is impacting nearly every state. It has sickened 165 million birds across the US and 970 herds of cattle across 17 states. While our federal government is on retreat on the issue, State Rep. Tim Brennan, Sen. Santarsiero, and Governor Shapiro are investing in a state-of-the-art poultry science center at Delaware Valley University.
On every issue where the Republican Party is in retreat, you can find Democrats at the state level taking leadership positions. While the national GOP is causing chaos, the state Democratic Party is, as Governor Shapiro says, getting shit done.
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Let the GOP be the party who isn’t sure if we’re in a trade war or not. We’ll be the party creating economic opportunity zones at the former US Steel site. Let the GOP be the party whose healthcare policy is “the beginnings of a plan”. We’ll be the party securing your right to coverage on pre-existing conditions. Again. Let them be the party who fires poultry scientists in an epidemic. We’re the party who build laboratories and invests in science.
Leave the uncertainty and chaos to the national Republicans. Here, at the local and state level, the Democrats have a clear vision that we are executing on every day.
Do the work. Deliver for the people. Serve the Commonwealth.
It may not get us as many headlines as bullying allies in the Oval Office does, but it puts people to work and keeps them safe. And in the end, isn’t that REALLY what government is supposed to be doing?
