Speaker 1: Hello America, and welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. As
Speaker 1: you probably know, like most sensible people, Sean is taking
Speaker 1: his annual year end vacation. Twenty twenty five is almost
Speaker 1: over with, and Sean will be back and ready to
Speaker 1: go when twenty twenty six arrives. So this is Jeffrey Lord,
Speaker 1: the contributing editor of The American Spectator, filling in for Sean,
Speaker 1: and I thought with twenty twenty six arriving, we can
Speaker 1: start to take a look at what will be a
Speaker 1: big ongoing topic next year, that being the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six election for state governors and members of the US
Speaker 1: Senate and the House. We have five interesting Senate races
Speaker 1: in Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and North Carolina that are
Speaker 1: going to be up for grabs, and Republicans certainly are
Speaker 1: going to be pouring everything they can into an effort
Speaker 1: to win those seats to keep their Senate majority going.
Speaker 1: In my own Pennsylvania, and I'll come back to this
Speaker 1: a little bit more in a bit, but in my
Speaker 1: own Pennsylvania, we're going to have a very important governor's
Speaker 1: race with Republican Stacy Garerty, who is our current state
Speaker 1: Treasurer who won in unbelievable margins when she was elected
Speaker 1: state treasurer, and she is going to be the Republican
Speaker 1: nominee for governor running against the Democrat Governor, Josh Shapiro.
Speaker 1: So we will have State Treasurer Guarity on to talk
Speaker 1: about that. And she's she's a very interesting person. I
Speaker 1: confess she's a friend. But let me let me fill
Speaker 1: you in a bit on her background. She served in
Speaker 1: the United States Army Reserve for thirty years, notably with
Speaker 1: three deployments in the Gulf in Iraq Wars. When she
Speaker 1: left after those thirty years, she had earned the rank
Speaker 1: of colonel and earned two Bronze Stars in the Legion
Speaker 1: of Merit. Moving into the private sector, Stacey served as
Speaker 1: the vice president of Global Tungsten and Powders Corporation, a
Speaker 1: company based in Tiwanda, Pennsylvania. And she was elected the
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania State Treasurer in twenty twenty and re elected overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, winning over three point five million votes,
Speaker 1: the most votes cast for any statewide candidate in Pennsylvania history.
Speaker 1: Her victory over the incumbent Democrat State Treasurer was the
Speaker 1: first time a Republican had defeated an incumbent Democrat since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four. So already Stacy has won the support
Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania Republicans, a victory that will be formalized in
Speaker 1: the May nineteenth, twenty twenty sixth Pennsylvania Primary. Then we're
Speaker 1: also going to have on as a guest. Selina Zeito
Speaker 1: and Selena is a terrific journalist covering Pennsylvania and politics.
Speaker 1: She joined The Washington Examiner in twenty sixteen as a
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh based columnist and reporter covering national politics and culture
Speaker 1: from a perspective outside the Beltway. She is the author
Speaker 1: of the book Butler, The Untold Story of the near
Speaker 1: assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland
Speaker 1: and the Great Revolt. She began her career at the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Tribune Review as a reporter and columnist covering national politics,
Speaker 1: and she has been a contributor as well to The
Speaker 1: New York Post and the Wall Street Journal as well
Speaker 1: as currently the Washington Post. And then we also were
Speaker 1: going to have Jeff Bartows. Jeff is also a Pennsylvanian
Speaker 1: an American real estate developer, A lawyer and a diplomat
Speaker 1: currently serving by the appointm of President Trump as the
Speaker 1: US Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform
Speaker 1: and been serving there since this year of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: So we're going to have an interesting time talking with
Speaker 1: all these folks. Things kind of slow down, as we
Speaker 1: all know in America when we get to that week
Speaker 1: between Christmas and New Year's as people try and get
Speaker 1: a fix on what it is their New Year's resolutions
Speaker 1: are going to be. In this case for twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six and twenty twenty six, as I've said, is going
Speaker 1: to be an election year, and from the President Trump perspective,
Speaker 1: I suspect this is very important in terms of keeping
Speaker 1: control of the House and Senate, and he is I
Speaker 1: believe I am correct in saying this. He's already said
Speaker 1: he is going to be out there campaigning all across
Speaker 1: the country for Republican candidates to get them, to get
Speaker 1: them elected, and to carry the day for a Republican
Speaker 1: House and a Republican Senate. Not to mention in cases
Speaker 1: like Stacey Garrity's a Republican governor. What we're going to
Speaker 1: be dealing with, I think President Trump has said that
Speaker 1: the midterm elections are going to be this is his
Speaker 1: phrase about pricing, quote unquote, and he said, what I
Speaker 1: think most people out there doing their daily shopping is
Speaker 1: they not to mention as they got ready for Christmas,
Speaker 1: and with Christmas shopping, they could tell that the nation's
Speaker 1: economy was much better this year than it was after
Speaker 1: President Biden left it. And the President said that he
Speaker 1: thought it is going to be about the success of
Speaker 1: our country, meaning the twenty twenty sixth election, said they
Speaker 1: gave us high, high, high pricing, and we're bringing it down.
Speaker 1: Energy is way down, gasoline is way down. And I
Speaker 1: can tell you from my Christmas experience driving from Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: to the far end of eastern Long Island where my parents'
Speaker 1: family was from. Uh, you can see the difference in
Speaker 1: prices as you're as you're getting getting your gas here.
Speaker 1: There is no question about that. So that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: These elections, I have to say, uh, and I've been
Speaker 1: through my share of them. They always come down at
Speaker 1: the end. And unless there's a you know, a massive
Speaker 1: World War two style running running crazy, Uh, the economy
Speaker 1: is always the answer, always, And so I think you
Speaker 1: were going to find that these candidates, both on both
Speaker 1: sides are going to be talking about this, although if
Speaker 1: you are a Republican and a Trump supporter, you're going
Speaker 1: to want to be talking about this a lot. If
Speaker 1: you're a Democrat, you're going to probably try and pretend
Speaker 1: that this doesn't happen. But we will see how this goes.
Speaker 1: There have been a lot of positive economic reports that
Speaker 1: have shown that inflation is decreasing, with the White House
Speaker 1: highlighting the latest data while addressing the cost of living
Speaker 1: concerns nationwide, and according to a political poll conducted last month,
Speaker 1: Americans say they are finding that the cost of groceries, utilities, healthcare, housing,
Speaker 1: and transportation are too expensive. And so President Trump has
Speaker 1: been going after this and they are as I say,
Speaker 1: I certainly have noticed in terms of energy and gasoline
Speaker 1: that prices have been coming down, and he, the President
Speaker 1: has added that electricity is down, it's way down. And
Speaker 1: then he also added, when the gasoline goes down, and
Speaker 1: when the oil and gas go down, the electricity gap
Speaker 1: comes down naturally. And so this is always job number
Speaker 1: one for a president. And the long ago I worked
Speaker 1: just to give you an example of how this works.
Speaker 1: And the long ago I worked for President Reagan in
Speaker 1: the White House as a political director when I was
Speaker 1: younger than I am now, and he had an enormous
Speaker 1: package of tax and budget cuts to reform the country's
Speaker 1: the economy and get it out of the recession that
Speaker 1: it had been thrust into in the Carter years. And
Speaker 1: he got the legislation passed, he signed it in August
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, I believe it was, But the
Speaker 1: kicker or twenty twenty one. I'm sorry, but the kicker
Speaker 1: was it didn't kick in. It takes a while for
Speaker 1: these things to make themselves felt, and people didn't know
Speaker 1: what to make of this in the nineteen eighty two elections,
Speaker 1: and so he had a real problem getting Republicans elected
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty two. And then in January or so
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty three, then suddenly the economy took off
Speaker 1: like a rocket and it was just it was just
Speaker 1: incredible to behold. And by the time nineteen eighty four
Speaker 1: rolled around and he himself was up for reelection, he
Speaker 1: wound up winning a forty nine state landslide because people
Speaker 1: were in fact, very, very happy with the state of
Speaker 1: the economy. So that I think is going to be
Speaker 1: is always going to be a big deal here as
Speaker 1: we go on, and then I'm seeing a headline on
Speaker 1: Fox News that the Justice Department is releasing Epstein documents
Speaker 1: with warning about Trump allegations. And I think we will
Speaker 1: we will see. You know, who knows what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: You know, frankly, I don't think most Americans care about this.
Speaker 1: Most Americans are concerned, as I was saying, about the economy.
Speaker 1: That's where their bread and butter is, That's where how
Speaker 1: they take care of their families. A story like this
Speaker 1: is titulating to you know, various people out there in
Speaker 1: the media and Democrats, well maybe Democrats, because some Democrats
Speaker 1: are not so happy about it. And you know, there's
Speaker 1: all kinds of things. There are pictures floating around with
Speaker 1: former President Clinton that I suspect Democrats don't want to
Speaker 1: see out there. So I really think that that Epstein
Speaker 1: episode is not going to be a big deal when
Speaker 1: it comes to elections because people just don't really care
Speaker 1: that much. It doesn't affect them. So on we go
Speaker 1: with all of that, and then we still have to
Speaker 1: deal and President Trump has to deal with Russia, which
Speaker 1: claims now that Ukraine attacked the residents of President Putin
Speaker 1: with are you ready for this? Ninety one drones and
Speaker 1: the Kremlin is apparently now changing ceasefire terms and all
Speaker 1: of this kind of thing. But you know, one of
Speaker 1: the things that is sort of amazing here, it's always
Speaker 1: well to remember that this world of ours has been
Speaker 1: around a very long time, and there are all kinds
Speaker 1: of rivalries and problems and all of this kind of
Speaker 1: thing going on with one kind of tree after another
Speaker 1: that have been going on for years. I mean, none
Speaker 1: of us were around, or most of us weren't around
Speaker 1: when World War One broke out and came to a conclusion,
Speaker 1: and I imagine people in the day thought, well, that's it,
Speaker 1: it's over. We've resolved it. And then of course the
Speaker 1: rise of Adolf Hitler and Germany, and suddenly there was
Speaker 1: World War Two, and there was the problems over in
Speaker 1: the in the Far East with with the Japanese and
Speaker 1: all this, and so World War two came and we
Speaker 1: had to fight the America had to fight the war
Speaker 1: all over again. So, in other words, I think the
Speaker 1: lesson and this has been true in all kinds of
Speaker 1: situations where you think that you ended a situation, a
Speaker 1: violence situation, and then you find out that lo and behold,
Speaker 1: there are people out there that still want to continue fight.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's one of the problems, that
Speaker 1: it's basically a humanity problem. And I don't know, you'd
Speaker 1: like to think that any president of the United States
Speaker 1: could put their thumb down and say that's it, But
Speaker 1: I have to say I think that as much as
Speaker 1: President Trump or any other president tries, it's not always doable,
Speaker 1: and things come back around to bite us all over again.
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll be set with that. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: I hope everybody is getting ready to celebrate New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: And I think I saw a story somewhere that the
Speaker 1: ball drop that you see in New York on New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve is going to be red, white and blue
Speaker 1: this year. And I think the reason for that is
Speaker 1: we are kicking off the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 1: of the United States of America, and that is going
Speaker 1: to be quite something. As someone who was around as
Speaker 1: I'm sure many of you were for the nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: six bi centennial, I can only imagine what the two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty celebration is going to be. It will
Speaker 1: be a very very big deal. Indeed, So all right,
Speaker 1: we'll be back in a bit. We have some great guests.
Speaker 1: As I say, so, thank you, stay tuned, hope you
Speaker 1: had a merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, and on we go.
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back, and I want to a very
Speaker 1: first thing, this being what we call in the trade
Speaker 1: talk radio, I want to give you an opportunity to
Speaker 1: call in and talk and uh, just dial in eight
Speaker 1: hundred nine four one seven three two six or eight
Speaker 1: hundred nine four one Sean Sea and we can have
Speaker 1: a conversation. There is so much going on here in
Speaker 1: the world as we speak. Also today President Trump has
Speaker 1: been meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin b b Bibi
Speaker 1: Netan Yahoo, and we'll see what comes out of that.
Speaker 1: I know Sean has been to Israel a number of times,
Speaker 1: and I've watched these reports and they are on television
Speaker 1: and they are just amazing to see. I had never
Speaker 1: been until this year, and it was quite an amazing trip.
Speaker 1: So maybe we'll talk a little bit about that when
Speaker 1: we when we come back. So just hang in there,
Speaker 1: stay tuned, and we will be right back.
Speaker 2: The one thing you can always count on.
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity is back on the radio. All right, we
Speaker 1: are here. This is Jeffrey Lord from an American Spectator
Speaker 1: and he's Max sitting in for Sean Hannity. You can
Speaker 1: reach us here at eight hundred nine four one seven,
Speaker 1: three two six or eight hundred and nine for one
Speaker 1: Sean if you'd prefer. And I am delighted to have
Speaker 1: as our first guest one Stacy Garrity, who is the
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania State Treasurer who has done just enormous work. And Stacy,
Speaker 1: before we start, I just want to do a little
Speaker 1: bio in for our guests, particularly for Pennsylvanians who are
Speaker 1: looking in and may not be familiar. Before she joined us,
Speaker 1: as I say, let me fill you in here. She
Speaker 1: served in the United States Army Reserved for thirty years,
Speaker 1: notably with three deployments in the Gulf in Iraq Wars.
Speaker 1: When she left after those thirty years, she had earned
Speaker 1: the rank of colonel and earned two Bronze Stars and
Speaker 1: the Legion of Merit. She moved into the private sector,
Speaker 1: where she served as the vice president of Global Tungsten
Speaker 1: and Powders Corporation, a company based and headquartered in Tiwanda, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: She was elected the Pennsylvania State Treasurer in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: and re elected overwhelmingly in twenty twenty four, winning over
Speaker 1: three point five million votes, the most votes cast for
Speaker 1: any statewide candidate in Pennsylvania history. Her victory over the
Speaker 1: incumbent Democrat state treasurer was the first time a Republican
Speaker 1: had defeated an incumbent Democrat since nineteen ninety four. Already,
Speaker 1: Stacey has won the support of Pennsylvania Republicans and that
Speaker 1: victory will be formalized on May nineteenth of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six and the Pennsylvania Primary. So if I may, Madam Treasurer.
Speaker 2: Are you there, Jeffrey, I am, and it is so
Speaker 2: great to be on with you today.
Speaker 1: It's great fun. And I assume you've been like every
Speaker 1: other Pennsylvania busy with the holiday and all of that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But you have, I think this small
Speaker 1: thing known as an election for governor Pennsylvania upcoming that
Speaker 1: may be keeping you busy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a little bit. In addition to my you know,
Speaker 2: position as treasure where I'm a watchdog for one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty billion dollars right, expay money right.
Speaker 1: I mean, all of this work is is just incredible
Speaker 1: and that you have been able to just plunge right
Speaker 1: in and do this and be such a success as
Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania State Treasurer. You know, my experience in Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: politics is that people generally know who the governor is
Speaker 1: or who's running for governor, and who the US Senator
Speaker 1: is and who's running for senator. They have a harder
Speaker 1: time knowing about the state treasurer and the auditor General
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing because they're lower down on
Speaker 1: the ballot and ordinarily it's not something you know. Some
Speaker 1: of these people, you know, pick up the paper in
Speaker 1: the morning to see what's up. So tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit, I think, to explain what the treasurer does,
Speaker 1: because I think it's it's fabulous. I've known a couple
Speaker 1: of your predecessors, or at least one or two of them,
Speaker 1: and I just wow, you really you really got something
Speaker 1: here when you're doing this. So give us a little
Speaker 1: talk about that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Tue, as I think you mentioned, it is my
Speaker 2: very first elected office. Had I not hit my mandatory
Speaker 2: retirement date in the Army Reserve, I would have never
Speaker 2: even thought about running because serving was and is the
Speaker 2: honor of a lifetime. But I think because I come
Speaker 2: from the private sector in the military that you know
Speaker 2: I did, I was able to jump in and get
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff done, and for example, giving back
Speaker 2: a billion dollars of taxpayer money, saving parents and grandparents
Speaker 2: over twenty two million dollars for the College and Career
Speaker 2: Savings Plan, money that goes right back into their pockets.
Speaker 2: I also give back military decorations, and we've been able
Speaker 2: to give back gosh, over five hundred and thirty including
Speaker 2: thirteen purple hearts, three bronze stars, and a gold Star medal.
Speaker 2: And you know, we also implemented Pennsylvanian money Match, so
Speaker 2: gave back fifty million dollars this calendar year to people
Speaker 2: that didn't even know they had unclaimed property, and so
Speaker 2: much more. We also opened up the books that Pennsylvanian
Speaker 2: Treasury and made us the most transparent agency in the
Speaker 2: entire commonwealth, because you know what, it's our money, it's
Speaker 2: not Harrisburg.
Speaker 1: Well, that's right, that's right. My experience with government having
Speaker 1: worked both in Harrisburg when I started out in the
Speaker 1: state Senate and then moving on to Washington and working
Speaker 1: there is the people who run these things think it's
Speaker 1: their money and it doesn't belong to the taxpayers, the
Speaker 1: people who are out there every day, you know, getting
Speaker 1: their kids up and going to work and earning the
Speaker 1: money that has got a fund, whether it's Pennsylvania or
Speaker 1: the federal government of the United States, and you get
Speaker 1: too many people who just want to sort of be
Speaker 1: spend thrifts with it.
Speaker 2: And exactly there isn't one taxpayer dollar that you know,
Speaker 2: I have to say, both sides of the aisle they
Speaker 2: want to spend. And in fact, the last budget that
Speaker 2: was passed, which was by the way, one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty four days late, we are spending just about five
Speaker 2: billion dollars Jeffrey, more than what we're bringing in effectively
Speaker 2: blowing through the entire surplus next year. The only thing
Speaker 2: that's left is the rainy day fund.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow. You know. My first lesson in this really
Speaker 1: was in Washington. I was working for Congressman Bud Schuster,
Speaker 1: was a member of the House Budget Committee, and so
Speaker 1: I had to do this staff work and all of
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And one of the things I
Speaker 1: learned this was in the first part of President Reagan's
Speaker 1: term first term is that you had Republicans who were
Speaker 1: great with the rhetoric, but when it came to budget
Speaker 1: cuts and all of that kind of thing, they didn't
Speaker 1: want to go there. And that's when I began to realize,
Speaker 1: this is an institutional problem with legislators, whether they're state
Speaker 1: legislators or whether they're members of Congress, is that it's
Speaker 1: you know, count the guy behind the tree, but don't
Speaker 1: touch me is more or less the problem with it.
Speaker 1: So in other words, we've got to have somebody exactly
Speaker 1: like you in that treasurer's job to be the watchdog.
Speaker 2: Well, I agree, and right now, you know, Pennsylvania is
Speaker 2: going in the wrong direction. We rank thirty eighth economically,
Speaker 2: we rank thirty ninth in education, and we rank forty
Speaker 2: first overall. And it just doesn't have to be that way,
Speaker 2: and it should be that way.
Speaker 1: No, And I imagine this will be a grade A
Speaker 1: number one issue for you as you run for governor
Speaker 1: this this next year. I mean, now, there's always this
Speaker 1: sort of lull. So it seems with political campaigns that
Speaker 1: you know, it takes a while for them to kick off,
Speaker 1: and then you get to you know, the actual election year,
Speaker 1: and wow, things things heat up in a sudden here
Speaker 1: and the work you've got to do is just just incredible.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm I'm glad that you're in this
Speaker 1: and making this an issue because I think most people
Speaker 1: don't understand they understand the office of governor better I
Speaker 1: think than they understand the office of treasure. But now
Speaker 1: is the time for them to be aware and to
Speaker 1: understand that your experience, whether it was in the military,
Speaker 1: whether it's in the private sector, whether it's in government,
Speaker 1: can play a real role in how you would serve
Speaker 1: as governor of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, because you know, just like we expect families to
Speaker 2: live within their means, our states should be doing the
Speaker 2: same thing. And unfortunately, because we both know there will
Speaker 2: be no programs that get caught, what's going to happen
Speaker 2: is that taxes will be raised. And you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: we have a governor right now that's more interested in
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania Avenue than Pennsylvania yea. And the fact of the
Speaker 2: matter is he's never been challenged. In fact, there's never
Speaker 2: even been an ad run against him. But there are
Speaker 2: two sides to every story. And with everybody's help and
Speaker 2: it is going to be an all hands on deck mission.
Speaker 2: We're going to be able to tell this to and
Speaker 2: if that people want to help, they can go to
Speaker 2: garrityfourpa dot com and check it out. But when people
Speaker 2: understand what he stands for, and he is a far
Speaker 2: left liberal, he believes that biological mail should compete against
Speaker 2: our girls in sports. He believes in gender affirming care
Speaker 2: for trans little kids using your tax pay dollars. We
Speaker 2: talked about the budget and the spending and both in
Speaker 2: his offices of Attorney General as well as governor. There
Speaker 2: are many many scandals that will need to come out.
Speaker 2: So and he has sued Donald Trump over two dozen
Speaker 2: times and rags about it. And so I think we
Speaker 2: need a governor that's going to work with the administration,
Speaker 2: not work against the administration, because, like you and I know,
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania should be leading the nation. We shouldn't be falling,
Speaker 2: you know, so far behind, you know, states like Florida, Texas,
Speaker 2: the Carolinas, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, sometimes when I had to discuss this topic,
Speaker 1: I say that his role model is as a Pennsylvanian
Speaker 1: is James Buchanan. And for people in our audience who
Speaker 1: may not know who that is. James Buchanan is the
Speaker 1: only Pennsylvanian elected president of the United States. It didn't
Speaker 1: go so well. He is generally rated by historians as
Speaker 1: the one before Lincoln, and it just wasn't a good
Speaker 1: time for the country. And I think that Josh's ambition
Speaker 1: is very much directed towards twenty twenty eight and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six is the hurdle that he has to get
Speaker 1: through or over before he gets there, as does anybody
Speaker 1: in this situation. But I do think that that affects
Speaker 1: how you do your job as governor if you're more
Speaker 1: interested in running for president.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, he's really a career politician, and he's really only
Speaker 2: chose to serve himself. He's always been in one position
Speaker 2: looking to jump to the next position, and he has
Speaker 2: always had his eyes on the White House. That's like
Speaker 2: the worst kept secret in Pennsylvania. And we all know
Speaker 2: that Pennsylvania is the ultimate swing state and the key
Speaker 2: to the Democrats blue wall. Excuse me, just look at
Speaker 2: you know twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four. Democrats don't
Speaker 2: win nationally if they don't win Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania it's
Speaker 2: incredibly important and so again we need everybody to be
Speaker 2: united and make sure that you know, we kick this
Speaker 2: guy out of Harrisburg and away from the White House.
Speaker 1: They don't call Pennsylvania the Keystone State for nothing, and
Speaker 1: there is a reason for that. For those who may
Speaker 1: not know. If you look at a map of Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: from the early colonies, it was right dead center between
Speaker 1: north and south. And yeah, because of its size and
Speaker 1: it's history, the steel industry and coal and mining and
Speaker 1: all of these things that energy that have played such
Speaker 1: an enormous role in Pennsylvania history. And what role do
Speaker 1: you do you see as a governor in terms of
Speaker 1: working with these these kind of folks who run these industries.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, there's a tremendous opportunity. We could be
Speaker 2: the hub of AI. As you know, twenty five percent
Speaker 2: of all natural gas in America is in Pennsylvania. And
Speaker 2: the governor is constantly you know, attacking fracking and you know,
Speaker 2: dancing around the edges. I mean, if you look at
Speaker 2: our neighbors, look at Ohio, look at Virginia, if you
Speaker 2: look at data centers, they're really you know, they're doing
Speaker 2: so much better than us because we are the twelfth
Speaker 2: highest regulated state in the nation, and it is very,
Speaker 2: very difficult to do business in Pennsylvania. And again it
Speaker 2: does have to be this way. We could be leading
Speaker 2: the nation. We have the best, hardest working people, We
Speaker 2: have world class industries and abundant natural resources that are
Speaker 2: the envy of the entire world.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that is exactly right. And you know, the
Speaker 1: state has such wonderful opportunity. And I must say, having
Speaker 1: been around America a little bit, you go to places,
Speaker 1: you know, if you live in Pennsylvania, and you go
Speaker 1: to places like Texas and Florida, and you see that
Speaker 1: the leaps and bounds they've made in terms of their
Speaker 1: economy and free markets and all of that kind of
Speaker 1: thing using their natural resource. It truly is astounding in
Speaker 1: terms of comparing it with what is not done here
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. And that's a big task. And when you
Speaker 1: were elected, and note I didn't say if when you
Speaker 1: were elected, you're going to have a lot on your hands.
Speaker 1: And I think you're going to have a lot of
Speaker 1: pennsylv Vanians we're going to want to pitch in and
Speaker 1: help you.
Speaker 2: I think so as well. I visit all sixty seven
Speaker 2: of our counties every single year, so I've done it
Speaker 2: five times now. And what Pennsylvanians tell me, and it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter which county they're from, that the government just
Speaker 2: isn't working for them. They feel left behind, and Pennsylvania
Speaker 2: right now is mediocre at best. We have a once
Speaker 2: in a lifetime opportunity to change our state around. And
Speaker 2: if we don't, you know, I'm concerned, you know, with
Speaker 2: the situation with the budget and just the lack of
Speaker 2: support of unleashing you know, the natural resources that we
Speaker 2: have right under our feet that you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: going to take a generation to.
Speaker 1: Get all right. Well, Stacey, I'm getting the break sign here,
Speaker 1: So it was wonderful to have you on. Have a
Speaker 1: happy new Year. Doubtless our past will cross somewhere when
Speaker 1: I'm back home in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: And great, good luck and thank you, Jeffrey, Happy news,
Speaker 2: New Year, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Bye bye. Okay, this is Jeffrey Lord sitting in for
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