James Moore

It’s time to set the record straight, because I’m getting pretty tired of hearing the same argument repeated as though saying it enough times somehow makes it true. “James Moore needs to drop out because we HAVE to beat Josh Shapiro.” No. That is not how this works. Part of the reason I got into this race in the first place is because both major parties practically coronated their nominees. Josh Shapiro ran uncontested for the Democratic nomination. Stacy Garrity ran uncontested for the Republican nomination. Pennsylvania voters never got a serious competition of ideas at the top of either major-party ticket. The parties gave you their candidates, and now everyone is supposed to line up behind one of them and act like those are the only choices Pennsylvania is allowed to consider. And since people keep asking why my name is not printed on the ballot, let’s clear that up too. I tried to get on it. A Republican or Democrat running for Governor needs 2,000 signatures to get onto their party’s primary ballot. A gubernatorial candidate using the nomination-paper process to reach the general-election ballot needs 5,000. We were building this from the ground up with very little money, mostly my family and a handful of supporters doing the work, and we did not reach the 5,000-signature requirement by the deadline. I am not making excuses for that. I had two choices: quit or keep going as a write-in candidate. I chose to keep going. What is backwards is making ballot access harder for candidates outside the two major parties and then using the fact that they had a harder road as proof they should not be taken seriously. I am not asking for special treatment. I am asking for equal treatment. I went through this process myself, saw the barriers firsthand, and that is one reason election reform became personal for me. Instead of complaining about it and walking away, I am still here. I got into this race because I believe Pennsylvania deserves better. More importantly, I believe I have the ideas, foresight, and willingness to make the structural changes this Commonwealth needs if Pennsylvania is ever going to truly become the Keystone State of this country again. Our Republic started here. Pennsylvania was at the center of the birth of this nation. Yet somewhere along the way, the spirit of that republic has damn near died in the very state where it began. Political parties have become more important than ideas, and voters are constantly told to choose the lesser evil instead of demanding something better. It is time to bring that republic back. And while we are setting the record straight, let’s talk about Stacy Garrity’s actual position in this race right now. The current 270toWin polling average has Josh Shapiro at 52.8% and Stacy Garrity at 33%. Recent individual polls all have Shapiro ahead, although by different margins. Shapiro also has an enormous financial advantage, with Inside Elections reporting about $38.3 million cash on hand compared with roughly $1.1 million for Garrity. Does that mean Garrity cannot win? No. I would be one hell of a hypocrite if I stood here running a statewide write-in campaign and told somebody else an uphill race was impossible. Polls change. Campaigns change. Elections are not decided months ahead of time. But let’s stop pretending this is a dead-even race where Stacy Garrity is cruising toward victory and James Moore is the one thing standing between her and the Governor’s office. That is simply not where this race stands today. And here is the part of this “spoiler” argument that really gets me. People keep acting as though every person who votes for me would automatically vote for Stacy Garrity if I disappeared tomorrow. Based on what? I have conservative supporters. I have Independent supporters. I have people completely fed up with both parties. I also have Democrats who have told me directly they are writing my name in. If I disappeared tomorrow, some might vote Garrity. Some might vote Shapiro. Some might vote for somebody else. Some might not vote for Governor at all. You cannot take every vote for James Moore, paint it red and hand it to Stacy Garrity. Those votes do not belong to her. They do not belong to Shapiro. They do not belong to me until I earn them. They belong to the voters. I keep hearing that conservatives need to “fall in line.” Maybe that thinking is part of the damn problem. If the Republican Party wants voters who have walked away, give them a reason to come back. If Garrity wants my supporters, she can make her case to them. If Shapiro wants Democrats who are considering writing my name in, he can make his case too. And if I want your vote, then I damn well better earn it myself. What I am not going to do is tell Pennsylvanians they have a duty to vote for somebody they do not believe in simply because that person has the right letter beside their name. We have been doing that for decades. How is that working out for us? Property taxes keep crushing homeowners. Transportation costs keep climbing. Government keeps growing. Our education structure needs serious reform. Families watch their electric bills and household costs rise while Pennsylvania sits on enormous energy resources. We keep managing problems instead of fixing what causes them. Every election, politicians rediscover these problems, blame the other party, promise this time will be different, and then we send people back into the same structure and wonder why we keep getting the same results. My campaign is not about changing the name on the Governor’s office door. It is about changing how Pennsylvania operates. I want education restructured while maintaining real statewide academic and graduation standards. I want permanent property tax reductions tied to structural savings. I want agencies, authorities, commissions, and programs audited and, when necessary, consolidated, restructured, or eliminated. I want transportation reform that deals with the debt and broken structure instead of another fee increase. I want healthcare that attacks root causes instead of endlessly managing symptoms. And when election laws require candidates outside the two major parties to clear higher barriers just to get their names in front of voters, I do not have to read about that problem in a report. I lived it. That is why I want equal ballot access and an election system that gives voters more choices instead of protecting the parties already in power. That is what I mean when I talk about real change. And real change has to start somewhere. People look at something new and ask whether it is already big enough to win before they are willing to take it seriously. But how exactly does anything become big enough if everybody waits for somebody else to go first? Every movement starts somewhere. At some point somebody has to quit asking for permission, plant the first seed, and start building. Maybe everything changes in one election. Maybe it takes longer. I am running to win this one, and I would not be putting my family through this or spending every day building this campaign if I did not believe there was a path. But I also understand that this is bigger than one election. If everyone always votes for whichever major-party candidate they think has the better chance of beating the other major-party candidate, nothing outside that system will ever become viable. That is exactly how the system maintains itself. So when somebody tells me to drop out because Garrity needs my votes to beat Shapiro, my answer is simple. They are not Garrity’s votes. They are the voters’ votes. She can earn them. Shapiro can earn them. I can earn them. I am not going anywhere. Pennsylvania helped create this Republic. Right now, the political establishment in this state has forgotten what one looks like. It is time to bring it back. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #PAPolitics #Pennsylvania #WriteIn #PeopleBeforeParty

This is exactly why politics has become so fucking ridiculous. Take one real statistic, rip away the context, blame everything on the other party, throw in the military record again, make a few big promises without showing the math, and apparently that is supposed to qualify as a plan for governing Pennsylvania. And I absolutely despise the fact that this bullshit keeps forcing me to defend Josh Shapiro even in the slightest. Let’s start with the claim that Pennsylvania is “at the very bottom for jobs and economy.” Pennsylvania did rank 47th in one U.S. News composite economy ranking. That is real, and it deserves criticism. But that is not the same thing as saying Pennsylvania is 47th in jobs. Our unemployment rate is currently 3.6%, below the national rate, and Pennsylvania employment is up significantly from a year ago. We have real economic problems.... slow long-term growth, affordability, business competitiveness, population issues, young people leaving the state.... so attack those. There is plenty there. But stop turning one composite ranking into a slogan that makes it sound like Pennsylvania is literally at the bottom in employment. Then we get, “Shapiro is giving you some of the highest gas taxes and prices in America.” Pennsylvania does have one of the highest gas taxes in the country. That part is true. But Josh Shapiro did not fucking create it. The modern gas-tax structure largely came from Act 89 in 2013 under Republican Governor Tom Corbett and a Republican-controlled legislature, with bipartisan support. Shapiro didn’t create it, didn’t pass it, and didn’t personally cause Pennsylvania’s gas tax to become one of the highest in the country. Gas prices themselves are also above the national average right now, but Pennsylvania is not even among the five most expensive states for regular gasoline. And pretending the governor of Pennsylvania personally controls the price of gas is just fucking stupid. Then we get the “Mr. Incompetent just made himself the highest-paid governor in America” line. No, he fucking didn’t. Shapiro is the highest-paid governor in America, but Pennsylvania law automatically adjusts the governor’s salary based on inflation. He did not sit behind his desk and decide to give himself a raise. And here is the part Garrity’s ad conveniently leaves out: the same automatic statutory cost-of-living adjustment increased her salary as Treasurer too. So you do not get to benefit from the same automatic raise and then make a commercial pretending Shapiro personally wrote himself a bigger paycheck. That is dishonest political framing. Then there is the property-tax promise. “I’ll cap school property taxes.” Okay. And? Capping future increases at 0.5% without voter approval is not comprehensive property-tax reform. Expanding rebates is not comprehensive property-tax reform either. You are still leaving the same broken funding system underneath it. You are basically saying, “We’ll let the system keep operating, but we’ll slow the increases and send some people more money to offset the pain.” That is tax limitation and tax relief. It is not structural reform. Pennsylvania already limits school-property-tax increases under Act 1. Garrity wants a tighter cap. Fine. Say that honestly. But do not sell a lower allowable increase and bigger rebate checks like you have somehow fixed Pennsylvania’s property-tax system. You haven’t. And then, right on schedule, we hear it again: “I served America in the Middle East and earned the Bronze Star twice.” We... fucking... know.... I respect Garrity’s military service. I have said that repeatedly. But she is running for Governor of Pennsylvania. She has also been Pennsylvania State Treasurer for years. Before that, she spent decades at Global Tungsten & Powders and eventually became vice president of government affairs. So talk about that record too. Talk about the experience that actually relates to state finances, government, business, and policy instead of constantly falling back on the same military biography. More importantly, explain the plans. How does the economic plan work? How much revenue disappears under the tax cuts? What replaces it? What does the property-tax proposal actually cost? Where does the rebate money come from? Those are the questions that matter. “Shapiro failed you. This soldier won’t.” That is a fucking slogan. Military service deserves respect. It does not substitute for a governing plan. And this constant bullshit where Republicans pretend everything wrong in Pennsylvania started with Josh Shapiro is every bit as ridiculous as Democrats pretending everything good happened because Josh Shapiro walked into the Governor’s Office. There is more than enough legitimate material to attack Shapiro on without manipulating statistics, pretending he created taxes that predate his administration, implying he personally gave himself a raise, and selling a property-tax cap as if you rebuilt the entire system. Stop treating Pennsylvania voters like idiots. Stop selling the biography. Stop selling the fucking slogans. SHOW US THE NUMBERS AND SHOW US THE DAMN PLAN.

“Remember, remember, the fifth of November.” Most people know the line because of V for Vendetta. It comes from the old Guy Fawkes rhyme, but I am not talking about what happened in 1605. I am talking about what the line represents today: the moment ordinary people finally decide they have had enough of being ignored, manipulated, divided, and told they only have two choices. November 5, 2024 reminded this country that voters still have the power to shake the political establishment when enough people decide they are done accepting politics as usual. But I do not believe America’s real “fifth of November” has happened yet. I think the pressure is still building. And Pennsylvania may be one of the biggest political powder kegs in the country. Not because people are looking for violence. I mean politically. Look at what is happening here. More voters are registering outside the two major parties. More people are willing to cross party lines. More people are openly saying they do not feel represented by either side. More than a million independent and third-party voters are still largely shut out of the primary process, even though they pay the same taxes and fund the same elections as everyone else. That disconnect matters. People are tired of being told that their only responsibility is to choose between the candidates the two major parties hand them. They are tired of slogans instead of plans, party loyalty instead of accountability, and politicians who seem more concerned about protecting their side than fixing the problems people actually live with every day. Pennsylvania also has something else going for it: political independence is already part of our DNA. This is the state where some of the biggest arguments about representation, government, and individual political power were fought at the birth of this country. That history does not mean we live in the past. It means Pennsylvania has always been a place where political pressure can turn into national change. That is why I believe this state could become the starting point for something much bigger. Not because one independent candidate wins one election and suddenly destroys the two-party system. It will not happen that way. It starts smaller. A few independent candidates run and refuse to disappear. A few voters stop automatically voting for a party label. A few local races get won by people outside the political machine. Independent registrations keep growing. People start realizing that their vote belongs to them, not to Republicans, Democrats, donors, consultants, or party leadership. Then the ripple gets bigger. That is the revolution I am talking about. A political revolution through elections, organizing, accountability, independent candidates, open competition, and regular people finally deciding that government belongs to them again. It has to be peaceful, but it cannot be weak. It has to be hard, strong, organized, persistent, and absolutely undeniable. The political class has to reach a point where it can no longer dismiss independent voters as irrelevant, ignore third-party candidates, hide behind party labels, or assume people will keep voting the way they are told. Because the alternative worries me. This country has already lived through one period where political division and public anger turned into something far darker from 1861 to 1865. I do not want America anywhere near that road again. That is exactly why change needs to happen now, through the ballot box and through people getting involved before frustration turns into something much worse. The political establishment has spent decades convincing people that it holds all the power. It does not. WE DO!!! And Pennsylvania may just be the place where enough people finally remember that. “Remember, remember, the fifth of November.” Maybe America’s real one is still ahead of us. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #Pennsylvania #IndependentVoice #PoliticalReform #BreakTheTwoPartySystem #WeThePeople

Serious question for people supporting either major-party ticket. If you support Garrity/Richey, give me a reason that has nothing to do with Stacy Garrity’s military record and nothing to do with “she’s not Josh Shapiro.” What specific policies, reforms or plans make you believe they would actually improve Pennsylvania? What have they proposed that makes you think they would govern differently and get better results? And if you support Shapiro/Davis, same question. Give me a reason that has nothing to do with Trump, MAGA or “he’s not Stacy Garrity.” What specific policies, reforms or results make you believe they deserve another term? What have they actually done, or proposed to do, that earns your support? I’m genuinely curious. Too much of politics anymore is just voting against the person or party you dislike more. I want to know what you are actually voting FOR. Not the R. Not the D. Not Trump. Not Shapiro. Not Garrity. Not military service. Not party loyalty. What is the actual case for the ticket you support?

Josh Shapiro signed Pennsylvania's bell-to-bell school cellphone ban today, and I actually agree with the policy. Phones have become a massive distraction in schools, and getting them out of students' hands during the school day makes sense. But let's give credit where the damn credit belongs. This was Senate Bill 1014. It was sponsored by senators Devlin Robinson, Vincent Hughes and Steve Santarsiero, passed the Senate 47-3, passed the House 141-62, and then landed on Shapiro's desk. Shapiro did call for a statewide ban earlier this year, so yes, he supported it and deserves credit for signing it. But this wasn't some solo executive achievement. It was a bipartisan legislative effort that had overwhelming support before the Governor ever picked up the pen. Politicians love taking a group project and turning it into a one-man victory lap. The law is good, Legislature did its job and the Governor signed it. That's the actual story. James Moore for Governor mooreforpa.com

For those who want to know more about me and where I stand, here is the short version. I'm James Moore, an independent candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, small-business owner, longtime youth sports organizer and President of the Connellsville Basketball Association. I'm running independently because I believe policy should come before party. My platform includes major education reform, a 50% reduction in school property taxes over three years, transportation reform that phases out passenger tolls and the gas tax, stronger government accountability, expanded school choice, election reform, healthcare and prior-authorization reform, stronger protections for taxpayers and utility customers, responsible energy and data-center development, repeal of the inheritance tax, regulation of skill games and stronger public-safety policies. I support getting cellphones out of classrooms, focusing schools on academics and life preparation, cutting government waste before raising taxes, protecting farmland from unnecessary development, requiring major industrial projects to pay their own infrastructure costs and reducing the amount of power concentrated in the executive branch. I also believe Pennsylvania's problems go much deeper than one Governor or one political party. Many of these issues have been building for decades under both Republicans and Democrats. My full positions, proposals and reforms are available at: mooreforpa.com

Take a damn good look at what is happening in France right now, because anyone who thinks something like this could never happen here is fooling themselves. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets over the cost of living, deteriorating public services and frustration with their government. Most were peaceful, but violent groups used those protests as cover for something much uglier. Cars were burned, businesses were looted, police were attacked, public buildings were targeted and a historic town hall was torched. More than 2,400 people have now reportedly been arrested and roughly 1,000 police officers injured. And then look at how some of it was initially reported. CBS ran an AP story describing “scuffles” between police and “small groups of protesters.” Technically, there were scuffles and smaller violent groups inside much larger peaceful protests. But when buildings are burning, stores are being looted, police are being attacked and arrests are climbing into the thousands, “scuffles” sure as hell doesn't tell the whole story. That is another problem we need to start talking about. People lose trust in institutions when what they see happening with their own eyes looks nothing like the sanitized language being used to describe it. No, Pennsylvania is not France. But the ingredients that create this kind of instability aren't unique to France. People here are pissed off too. Costs keep climbing, families are struggling, schools have problems, infrastructure is aging, healthcare is expensive and politicians from both parties spend half their time blaming somebody else while telling us everything is going great. When people stop believing government listens to them, stop trusting the media to tell them what is actually happening and stop believing the system works for them, frustration turns into anger. Then extremists, criminals and agitators have an angry population they can exploit. France should be a warning. You don't rebuild public trust after everything starts burning. You rebuild it before it ever gets that far. James Moore for Governor

Stacy Garrity says Pennsylvania’s 3.07% personal income tax should be cut. Okay. TO WHAT? That should not be a difficult question when cutting the tax is part of your campaign platform. Is the target 3%? 2.8%? 2.5%? How much revenue does Pennsylvania lose at the proposed rate? What specific spending comes down with it? How much do you expect economic growth to replace, and over what timeline? What happens if the growth projection misses? I support tax cuts when the numbers work. What I do not support is politicians treating “lower taxes” like a magic incantation that eliminates the need to balance the budget. Pennsylvania’s schools, roads, Medicaid program, prisons, public safety, and other obligations do not disappear because somebody lowered a percentage on a campaign flyer. If you are running to manage a $50 billion plus state government, put a damn number on your tax plan. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #StacyGarrity #IncomeTax #TaxReform #PennsylvaniaBudget #ShowTheMath

Josh Shapiro keeps bragging that Pennsylvania is finally “competing” for big business. What he talks about a lot less is how much taxpayer money Pennsylvania is putting on the table to do it. Since Shapiro took office, his economic-development team has pledged nearly $457 MILLION in grants, loans and tax credits to roughly 90 companies. The state is now averaging about $121.8 million a year in business incentives, more than double the annual amount under Tom Wolf. Even more interesting, the ten biggest deals account for about 65% of all those subsidies. And here's the part that really bothers me: the state board created to review the performance of tax-credit programs and other government spending apparently hasn't met since 2023. So Harrisburg is dramatically increasing the amount of taxpayer money being handed out to corporations while the board that's supposed to help evaluate whether these kinds of programs actually work isn't even meeting? That's backwards. I'm not against Pennsylvania competing for jobs. I'm against calling every giant subsidy package an “investment” before anybody proves the taxpayer actually got a return. If you're handing out hundreds of millions of dollars, the damn scorecard should be running BEFORE the checks go out, not years afterward when nobody remembers who promised what. James Moore for Governor mooreforpa.com

I am getting pretty damn tired of Harrisburg politicians bragging about how much money they spend like the price tag itself is proof they accomplished something. Pennsylvania’s latest General Fund budget is $50.85 billion, and Shapiro’s administration cannot stop using words like “historic investment” every time another pile of taxpayer money gets pushed across the table. Fine. Some of those investments may be worthwhile. Now show me what the hell we actually got for them. Show the measurable improvement. Show the programs that worked and the ones that failed. Show the administrative waste that was eliminated, the duplication that was cut, and the programs that were shut down because they were not delivering enough for what taxpayers were paying. Stop giving Pennsylvanians press releases full of dollar signs and pretending spending is the same thing as success. Government can spend $50 billion or $100 billion and still waste money. The number that matters is not how much Harrisburg managed to spend. It is whether Pennsylvania families, schools, roads, communities, and taxpayers are actually better off because of it. SHOW THE DAMN RESULTS. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #JoshShapiro #PennsylvaniaBudget #GovernmentAccountability #Taxpayers #PAPolitics

Josh Shapiro says Pennsylvania should abolish the death penalty because he doesn't believe the Commonwealth should be in the business of executing people. Fine. That's his position. But Pennsylvania law STILL HAS THE DEATH PENALTY, and instead of convincing the Legislature to repeal it, he has continued the moratorium and promised to issue a reprieve every time an execution reaches him. And I have a hard time with the moral line he's drawing here. Shapiro strongly supports abortion rights under Pennsylvania's current law and he has fought efforts to further restrict them. He also proudly stood at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant supporting weapons production for Ukraine and even wrote a message on a finished 155mm artillery shell. Yet when it comes to someone lawfully convicted of the absolute worst murders imaginable, suddenly the Commonwealth taking a life crosses an absolute moral line? Right here in Fayette County, prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against two people accused in the horrific death of 2-year-old Maggie Nunn. They are innocent unless and until proven guilty. But if a jury finds beyond a reasonable doubt that someone intentionally tortured and murdered a 2-year-old child, I believe Pennsylvania's death penalty should mean something. If Shapiro believes otherwise, take it to the Legislature and CHANGE THE DAMN LAW. Don't leave capital punishment on the books and then use executive power to guarantee it will never be carried out. My position is simple. For the absolute worst murderers, especially those convicted of intentionally torturing or murdering children, enforce the death penalty. If Pennsylvania wants a different law, change it through the legislative process. James Moore for Governor mooreforpa.com

Well, this is interesting. Josh Shapiro is asking Pennsylvanians to elect him to another four-year term as Governor, but last week he refused to promise that he would actually serve the entire four years. Now, just days later, he creates a federal PAC and officially starts building political infrastructure at the national level. But I'm sure that's all just a coincidence. His campaign says the PAC is currently about helping Pennsylvania congressional candidates. Fine. I'm not going to claim he's officially running for President when he hasn't announced that. But come on. Pennsylvanians have every damn right to ask what they're actually voting for in November. Are you asking people to elect you Governor for another four years because you intend to serve Pennsylvania for another four years, or are you asking them to give you another term while you build the machinery for whatever comes next nationally? You already had the opportunity to clear this up during the debate. All you had to say was, "Yes, if reelected, I will serve my full term." You wouldn't do it. And now you have a federal PAC. If your focus is Pennsylvania, then say you'll serve the term you're asking Pennsylvanians to give you. That's not a difficult question. James Moore for Governor mooreforpa.com

Josh Shapiro is back out there bragging about more than $1.1 billion in Property Tax/Rent Rebates since he took office and calling the expansion one of his “tax cuts.” Can we please stop playing this game with words? The Property Tax/Rent Rebate Program can absolutely help seniors and disabled Pennsylvanians who qualify. I have no problem saying that. But you have to APPLY for it every year, eligibility is income-based, the standard rebate tops out at $1,000, and the underlying property tax bill is still sitting there waiting for you. That is relief, but it sure as hell is NOT structural property-tax reform. If my property tax goes up $1,500 and Harrisburg hands me $500 back, Harrisburg didn't “cut my property tax.” They gave me some of my money back after the tax was already charged. Politicians love rebates because they get to put their name on the check. Actual tax reform is harder because you have to fix the damn system that produced the bill in the first place. Help the people who need the rebate. Absolutely. Just stop pretending a rebate and a tax cut are the same damn thing. James Moore for Governor mooreforpa.com

I agree Pennsylvania should opt into the federal scholarship program. If there is an opportunity to give Pennsylvania families more educational options and additional resources for their children, we should take advantage of it. But we need a hell of a lot more than school choice. School choice is one piece of education reform. It does not fix the underlying problems in Pennsylvania's education system. Moving a child from one school to another doesn't magically fix an entire system that continues to struggle with reading and math, social promotion, weak accountability, staffing problems, special education, discipline, outdated funding structures and preparing kids for life after graduation. This is exactly what frustrates me about the education argument in Harrisburg. Republicans act like school choice is the entire solution, while Democrats act like spending more money is the entire solution. Neither one is enough. Give parents choices. Absolutely. Pennsylvania should participate in this program. Then get serious about fixing the damn education system those families are trying to escape in the first place. James Moore for Governor mooreforpa.com

Josh Shapiro keeps bragging that Pennsylvania is finally “competing” for big business. What he talks about a lot less is how much taxpayer money Pennsylvania is putting on the table to do it. Since Shapiro took office, his economic-development team has pledged nearly $457 MILLION in grants, loans and tax credits to roughly 90 companies. The state is now averaging about $121.8 million a year in business incentives, more than double the annual amount under Tom Wolf. Even more interesting, the ten biggest deals account for about 65% of all those subsidies. And here's the part that really bothers me: the state board created to review the performance of tax-credit programs and other government spending apparently hasn't met since 2023. So Harrisburg is dramatically increasing the amount of taxpayer money being handed out to corporations while the board that's supposed to help evaluate whether these kinds of programs actually work isn't even meeting? That's backwards. I'm not against Pennsylvania competing for jobs. I'm against calling every giant subsidy package an “investment” before anybody proves the taxpayer actually got a return. If you're handing out hundreds of millions of dollars, the damn scorecard should be running BEFORE the checks go out, not years afterward when nobody remembers who promised what. James Moore for Governor mooreforpa.com

Stacy Garrity wants to repeal the inheritance tax, cut the personal income tax, and reduce local property taxes by one-third. Great. I want lower taxes too. But here is the part nobody should be allowed to skip: what the hell are you cutting to make the numbers work? Pennsylvania still has to fund schools, Medicaid, public safety, roads, local government, prisons, courts, pensions, and everything else people expect the Commonwealth to pay for. You cannot cut billions in revenue, leave spending untouched, and call that fiscal conservatism. That is just shifting the bill around and hoping nobody notices until after the election. If Garrity has the spending cuts, put them on the table. Name the programs. Name the departments. Name the dollar amounts. “Lower taxes” is a slogan. Governing requires the rest of the damn spreadsheet. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #StacyGarrity #TaxReform #PennsylvaniaBudget #ShowTheMath #PAPolitics

Stacy Garrity was absolutely right to call Josh Shapiro out over his broken $250 gas rebate promise. But her own proposal raises some pretty damn serious questions. Josh, you campaigned on giving Pennsylvanians $250 per vehicle. Four years later, nobody got those checks. You say the federal money you planned to use was already committed when you took office. Fine, but why the hell did you make a campaign promise depending on money you couldn't guarantee would be available? And when confronted about it, you went right back to Trump, tariffs, and Iran. What the hell does any of that have to do with YOUR broken promise? But Stacy, don't start celebrating just yet. You're promising a $750 summer gas rebate for Pennsylvania drivers, along with a temporary gas-tax suspension. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? Until somebody actually starts doing the damn math. Pennsylvania has roughly 9 million licensed drivers. At $750 each, you're potentially talking about nearly $7 BILLION in taxpayer-funded checks if every driver qualified. Even covering half would cost billions. Where the hell is that money coming from, Stacy? You've talked about using the Rainy Day Fund to cover a temporary gas-tax suspension. But what pays for these rebate checks? Who qualifies? And how do you replace the highway funding lost during the tax suspension? You criticize Shapiro for promising money he never delivered, while making an even bigger promise without explaining exactly how you're going to pay for it. That's the same damn political bullshit coming from two different parties. My transportation reform takes a different approach. Phase out the gas tax, eliminate passenger-vehicle tolls, restructure spending, and establish replacement funding instead of handing out temporary checks while leaving the underlying problems untouched. Josh owes Pennsylvanians an explanation for his broken promise. Stacy owes them an actual cost estimate and funding plan. Rebates aren't permanent tax relief, and campaign promises aren't worth a damn without the math to back them up. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. mooreforpa.com #JamesMooreForGovernor #MooreForPA #JoshShapiro #StacyGarrity #Pennsylvania #GasTax #TransportationReform #WriteInMoore

Pennsylvania has a structural budget problem. Recurring spending is growing faster than recurring revenue, reserves are being drawn down, and Shapiro keeps proposing new revenue sources that repeatedly fail to make it through the Legislature. That should scare the hell out of anybody paying attention. You cannot keep using reserves to plug recurring holes forever. A rainy day fund is not recurring revenue. It is not a permanent funding source. It is not a magic checking account Harrisburg gets to keep raiding because nobody wants to make hard decisions. Eventually the math wins. Either spending changes, revenue changes, or both. What I am tired of is pretending the problem is solved because there is still money sitting in the reserve account today. A Governor’s job is not to get through one more budget. It is to leave Pennsylvania financially stronger than he found it. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #JoshShapiro #PennsylvaniaBudget #StructuralDeficit #FiscalResponsibility #PAPolitics

The bullshit going back and forth between Josh Shapiro and Stacy Garrity over data centers is getting absolutely ridiculous. Shapiro spent months aggressively courting data centers, bragging about Pennsylvania being "all in on AI," celebrating billion-dollar investments, and pushing faster development. Then, when Pennsylvanians started raising hell about electricity costs, water usage, farmland, and local control, he suddenly decided we needed tougher restrictions. And Garrity? She's no damn better. In 2025, she was complaining that Pennsylvania had only 88 data centers compared to Ohio's 192 and pushing for deregulation to attract more. Now suddenly she's demanding development pauses, restrictions, and community protections. So let me get this straight. Both of you changed your positions, and now you're attacking each other for doing the exact same damn thing? What a load of political bullshit. Here's the difference between them and me. My position has been clear from the beginning, and it hasn't changed. I laid out my restrictions before either of them rolled out their latest proposals. Data centers belong on existing brownfields, NOT farmland or in residential communities. Developers should be responsible for their own energy, water, and infrastructure costs, not sticking Pennsylvania residents and businesses with the bill. And I didn't need public outrage or election-year polling to figure that out. Look, there's nothing wrong with changing your position when new information becomes available. Hell, that's what responsible leadership should do. But at least have the damn integrity to acknowledge it and explain why. What did Shapiro get wrong initially? What changed Garrity's mind about deregulation? Where are the actual enforceable restrictions? How are you going to protect utility customers, water resources, farmland, and local communities? Those are the questions Pennsylvanians deserve answers to. Instead, we get two politicians screaming FLIP-FLOP at each other while pretending they've been protecting Pennsylvania all along. Enough of this political wrestling match. Put your old positions next to your new ones, explain what changed, and show us the actual plans and numbers. Pennsylvanians don't need another election-year performance. We need consistent leadership, accountability, and actual solutions. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. mooreforpa.com #JamesMooreForGovernor #MooreForPA #JoshShapiro #StacyGarrity #Pennsylvania #DataCenters #FarmlandProtection #EnergyCosts #WriteInMoore

The Medicaid exchange was one of the biggest bullshit dodges of the entire debate. Stacy Garrity was asked a pretty simple question. Would Pennsylvania use STATE money to offset the loss of federal Medicaid funding? Instead of answering, she went off defending federal work requirements and talking about tax cuts on tips and overtime. What the hell does any of that have to do with the question? If federal Medicaid changes leave hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians facing lost or reduced coverage, what exactly are YOU going to do about it as Governor? Are you going to replace the funding with state money? Cut benefits? Restructure the system? Let Pennsylvanians lose their coverage? And what the hell happens to our rural hospitals that are already struggling to stay open? These aren't complicated questions to understand, Stacy. They're questions any candidate for governor should be prepared to answer. I'm getting pretty damn tired of politicians dodging questions about Pennsylvania by running back to Washington and repeating national political talking points. You're running for Governor of PENNSYLVANIA, not Congress. Quit telling us what Washington is doing and explain what the hell YOU plan to do when these problems land on your desk. Pennsylvanians deserve actual answers, detailed plans, and numbers that add up. Not another political performance. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. mooreforpa.com #JamesMooreForGovernor #MooreForPA #StacyGarrity #Pennsylvania #Medicaid #HealthcareReform #WriteInMoore

Josh Shapiro is asking Pennsylvanians to give him another four years as Governor, but when he was asked during the debate whether he would actually commit to serving all four of them, he wouldn’t do it. He sidestepped the question about his presidential ambitions and said he is focused on reelection right now. That is not the same damn thing as saying, “Yes, if Pennsylvania elects me Governor, I will serve the term.” This is not some ridiculous hypothetical question. Shapiro has been talked about nationally for years. If you are asking people to elect you Governor through 2031, they have every right to know whether you actually intend to still be Governor through 2031. Pennsylvania is not a placeholder while somebody waits to see whether a better political opportunity opens up. If you want four more years, then tell Pennsylvania you are staying for four more years. That should have been one of the easiest damn questions of the night. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #JoshShapiro #PAGovernor #PennsylvaniaPolitics #Election2026