Legislators give update as CCEP Legislative Breakfast returns
BALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP, PA – For the first time since 2019, the Clinton County Economic Partnership brought back what had been, prior to the COVID pandemic, its annual Legislative Breakfast. The location was Haywoods on the Green and some 120 partnership members gathered for a Friday morning legislative update from state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz (R-76) and state Sen. Cris Dush (R-25).
The two GOP lawmakers made brief introductory comments, then fielded questions in an hour-long dialogue. US Congressman Glenn Thompson (R-15) was unable to attend as the US House was in session. Partnership President/CEO Mike Flanagan served as moderator.
Rep. Borowicz took issue with the budget introduced earlier this year by first-year Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat. She called a 6 percent budget increase proposed for the fiscal year starting July 1 unsustainable but said one “good thing” proposed is a continued reduction in the state corporate income tax.
Democrats now hold a slim majority in the state House, what the third-term legislator called “a far-left turn.” She described the first six weeks of the new House session as “chaotic” and later called for a return to “reading, writing and arithmetic” in the schools and not “indoctrination of our children.”
In his comments, Sen. Dush renewed his previously expressed concerns about the 2020 election and raised doubt about 2021 results in some parts of Pennsylvania. He said it needs to be assured that “elections are taken care of properly.” Relative to conditions in society today, the Jefferson County lawmaker called “for churches to step up; if they don’t, we’re in a serious downward trend.”
Both Dush and Borowicz voiced their support for more regulatory reform, Dush expressing concern about entrenched executive branch employees “creating rules affecting you people.”.
