Daily News | Hey, Josh Shapiro, thanks for saving democracy. Now, ditch your bad campaign promises.
“He didn’t have to do these things,” Eric Rosso, a veteran activist who currently heads the progressive Pa. Spotlight journalism project, told me, pointing out that Shapiro had built up a double-digit lead over Mastriano and had state teachers’ unionsfor cuts in public-school funding when he came out with his surprise support for vouchers.
Indeed, in his first week as governor-elect, Shapiro sent a new worrisome signal to voters on the left when hestate House Republicans’ impeachment of Philadelphia progressive district attorney Larry Krasner, who was overwhelmingly reelected in 2021 — based on policy disagreements, not any misconduct. So is Shapiro done with defending democracy now that his own votes have been counted?
Ironically, those comments came at virtually the same moment that Rosso was telling me that Shapiro will need continued support from pro-Krasner Democrats if he wants to govern successfully in a fractured Harrisburg. “As leader of the Democratic Party,” he said, Shapiro “has to show there is some space in his party for progressives — the people who organize, and who elected Krasner.”
Indeed, the most surprising Pennsylvania election outcome — the blue wave that has apparently allowed Democratsof the state House for the first time in a dozen years, albeit by a one-vote margin — now poses both an opportunity and a challenge for the incoming governor.
The surprisingly conservative campaign that Shapiro mounted in defeating Mastriano might have seemed like clever politics for the fall, but it could mean a winter of bad government by prescribing the wrong cures for the actual problems that Pennsylvania faces, including income inequality, inadequate public schools, and greenhouse-gas pollution.Like most issues, Shapiro will clearly mark an improvement from the GOP’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda.
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