Harrisburg – Treasurer Stacy Garrita did not even announce his offer as Governor of Pennsylvania, and the blows have already begun.
Two powerful associations of trade unions, Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council and the Pennsylvania District Council – Both supported Garrites in her re -election for the treasurer in November – they published her warnings at the beginning of this month.
“We are unwavering support for our friend Governor Josh Shapiro – and an attempt to apply for a republican ticket to the governor against him broke off all relations we have ever kept with the treasurer,” said the treasurer, “said Pennsylvania District Robotniki District. in an unigned statement.
Statements of influential Union leaders were released when the Republicans began to merge around Garrita as their privileged candidate to take Shapiro, which remains popular among most of PennsylvaniaAccording to the morning survey published last week.
“If the treasurer of Garrita makes a stupid decision to question our governor, he will never have trade support Building Building Trades. Even for a dog catcher,” said Ryan Boyer, head of Filadelphia Building Trades, in a statement.
Boyer’s statement exceeded the line for 10 women of GOP senators, including President Pro Tempore Kim Ward (R., Westmoreland), who threw himself to defend Garrita and called Shapiro to condemn this statement.
Shapiro spokesman refused to comment and did not yet weigh controversy within a week of issuing the statement.
“It is obvious that the statement published on Facebook had a bullying over the treasurer of Stacy Garrita before entering the governor, but we know Stacy as a war veteran of the American army, which does not scare easily and does not withdraw,” said the women of the GOP senate in a statement.
Ward, in an interview, went on: Boyer’s raw comments were sexist and would not be used against the American representative Dan Meuser (R., Pa.) If he continued to consider the candidate for the governor. (Meuser announced at the beginning of this month that he would not run for the governor, after months of consideration of the race and the promise of support from President Donald Trump).
“You know, you hate this to apply it,” Gender, “Ward said. “But of course.
Boyer rejected Ward’s claim, adding that his record supporting the candidates “speak for himself”, such as his support for the mayor of Philadelphia Cherlle L. Parker and house speaker Joanna McClinton (D., Philadelphia). He invited Ward to call him a conversation, “in a very college, as always our relationship,” he said.
Both Parker and McClinton issued individual statements on Boyer’s support. In Parker’s statement, she said that she would not be the first mayor of the city, if not for Boyer’s support, and admires his endless support for members of trade unions in Philadelphia.
Early Brouhaha in front of Garrity will even officially enter the race, prepares the scene for sloppy governor’s elections, in which Shapiro allies know him their loyalty, while Pennsylvania GOP hopes that it is better to swing in the extremely popular governor of the first term. Meanwhile, Shapiro will be hoping to deliver to Democrats from Ballot, in the hope that he will throw several Congress circles of Pennsylvania, including two places that the Republicans overturned in 2024.
Shapiro has not yet announced his own re -election campaign, but he appeared at the fundraiser in Nantucket, Massachusetts, this weekend, where tickets cost from 1000 to USD 10,000, According to a leaflet for the event.
The statement of the Women Senate with GOP met after Boyer’s statement was made available between them on group chat. Ward said that reading a statement meant that her blood pressure launched, adding that Shapiro should not take one of his allies, speaking of Garrity in this way before she enters the race.
“They are terrified of winning a candidate that they will have to actually run,” Ward added in relation to the election in 2022, in which Shapiro won almost 15 percentage points in relation to the far -right state senator Doug Mastriano (R., Franklin). For her part, Mastriano is still considering applying for the governor in 2026 and hopes to somehow join forces from Garrita.
But Boyer said that his statement does not apply to Garrrita or fear. In this way he plays the political game and defends leaders who support Building Building Trade in relationships.
“There is no fear,” Boyer said. “I fully play politics. When I believe in someone, I believe in him. And I believe in Josh Shapiro.”
Boyer said he had issued his statement because he wanted to say Garrity from above that he would not be able to get the commercial support of the building again. And he claimed because she returned to her word.
Boyer claims that Garrity was “provided” by other members of the construction trade, asked during the support process in 2024 that he is not planning to run for a governor.
“When you tell me something that you said that you will not do it, and then you do it, in North Philly we call it a lie. I do not know what they call it in Harrisburg,” Boyer added, noticing that they commented on these other members of the building trade, and not directly to him.
Garrita spokesman rejected Boyer’s claim, and people who allegedly made these promises could not be contacting the commentary on Friday.
“It is grossly false and compelling, it comes from someone who sang her praise recently,” said Brittany Yanick, Garrita spokeswoman, in relation to the previous comments of Boyer In the support of Garrita in September 2024in which he called her a “real opportunity.”
Garrity would still have to formally secure the support of GOP in Pennsylvania, which the state party plans to make a decision in September, and win the basic elections of the next spring, depending on whether Mastriano or other pretenders will jump in the race. The best members of the state of GOP and the chairman of the counties publicly supported GarriTy, and she is a favorite in any convention of the state of the state party.
Garrita was re -elected for the second term as the best supervisory body in November with 3.5 million votes, the highest in the history of Pennsylvania for the candidate at the state level, collecting the record of Shapiro earlier.
Shapiro did a favor last year when he decided not to support the treasurer’s race. Erin McLelland, nominated for democratic, publicly criticized Shapiro while he was ready to be the vice president of Kamali Harris. The choice of Shapiro, in order not to support, opened the door for trade unions and other democratic groups, which would not usually support the GOP candidate to support Garrita.
Garrity herself was free for Shapiro for years for their good working relationships, a tone that has changed drastically in recent weeks, when it is approaching the announcement of the governor’s offer.
