How the Pennsylvania govs mansion revamp could complicate Josh Shapiros White House bid
Cracks may be starting to appear in Pennsylvania Gov.Josh Shapiro’s 2028 White House bid, a lawsuit provided to On The Money shows.Shapiro, it should be noted, is a common-sense moderate and a much needed presence in a Democratic Party dominated these days by the loopy far left.
As such he is a favorite on Wall Street, and Big Tech.It’s been my experience that the men and women in these industries are a political grab bag – they love making dough but embrace certain liberal policies (pro choice among them).
Bill Clinton is their benchmark, and they yearn for a candidate to take the party back from the progressive (and even communist) hordes.Shapiro appears to fit that bill and the numbers don’t lie: He has raised a whopping $60 million for his fall gubernatorial re-election campaign, much of it from the moderate business types on Wall Street and in tech.His GOP challenger has pulled in just $3 million.Yet if any of the allegations in the whistleblower lawsuit I just reviewed are even partly true — and yes they are just allegations — there are questions whether Shapiro is ready for the primetime political proctology exam he will experience if he does run in 2028.The suit doesn’t name Shapiro as a defendant but he looms large in the litigation that takes aim at the state and agencies where the alleged whistleblower worked.
Filed in federal court by plaintiff Nicole Moyer, it alleges that the state recently fired the procurement specialist for doing her job, namely questioning the costs of state projects using taxpayer money.(Full disclosure: Moyer’s lawyer, Bryn Mawr attorney Mark Schwartz, represented me nearly two decades ago to dispute references to my published work while I was employed by another media outlet).Those costs involved a renovation of the governor’s mansion.
She claims in the lawsuit that she was fired in March, “devoid of an explanation,” after crying foul on alleged cost overruns to rehab the property after it was damaged i...