Pennsylvania Ping!
Please ping me with articles of interest.
FReepmail me to be added to the list.
Posted on 08/31/2022 1:26:52 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
As attorney general, Josh Shapiro went to court repeatedly to defend Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration against legal challenges to his pandemic-era mandates and shutdowns.
Now, as he’s running to succeed Wolf as governor, Shapiro says he is against some of the same COVID-19 containment measures that his fellow Democrat used to help manage the nation’s worst pandemic in over a century.
On the campaign trail in the presidential battleground state, Shapiro’s Republican opponent, Doug Mastriano, makes Wolf’s COVID-19 policies — and Shapiro’s defense of them in court — a source of derision.
But disavowing Wolf’s COVID-19 policies while facing headwinds for his party may be a politically painless way for Shapiro to tack to the middle against Mastriano, who even some top Republicans say is too far to the right to win the November general election.
“This is an area where I think folks got it wrong,” Shapiro said of school and business shutdowns. On mask and vaccine mandates, Shapiro said he opposed them and instead talked about a need to “educate and empower” the public, business owners, school leaders and others to protect themselves and others.
“And to me, that’s the approach we need to take more broadly as a public, which is to educate, empower and respect people’s personal decisions and respect their personal freedom to make those choices,” Shapiro told The Associated Press in an interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
I'm old enough to remember when Shapiro encouraged snitching and sent the PSP to intimidate, threaten, and close down dissenting businesses.
And the reporter here, Marc Levy, is a Harrisburg democrat hack who's done a lot of hit pieces on Mastriano and is trying to help Shapiro with a soft-landing.
“Help manage?”
How about “mismanage”?
Pennsylvania Ping!
Please ping me with articles of interest.
FReepmail me to be added to the list.
Bureau of Liquor Enforcement of PSP was sent around to bars and restaurants to ensure that they were forcing staff and customers to wear masks unless actually seated at a table...NO seating at the bar allowed.
It’s getting hot in the kitchen for Shapiro.
Say anything to be elected, even if you don’t believe it.
Josh is a liar. Always has been.
This is a mistake by Shapiro. Tantamount to what the Mitch McConnell brand of GOP candidates always do, accept the other sides premise and apologize.
Happy to know a dem is capable of the same mistake.
Wishy was little Poindexter. Honestly, he’ll flip to whatever cN move his needle. He reminds me of Percy from the Green Mile..
Just another lying Democrat.
”On a conservative online broadcast”
I hope Mastriano’s campaign is exposing him in non-conservative venues. There is a sea of unaffiliated voters in PA that he needs to appeal to, and speechifying in strict conservative ideology won’t do it. (Not saying that his criticisms here aren’t valid, but in this article Shapiro seems to be taking some of the sting away from Mastriano’s position.)
The same goes for moderate/crossover Democrats. Both of these voting blocks supported Donald Trump in 2016 (and in 2020), and won him the election. Pennsylvania has a little over 500,000 more registered Dems than Repubs.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.