Shapiro has expressed support for policies more in the GOP's wheelhouse, such as cutting corporate income taxes, expanding taxpayer support for private and parochial schools and speeding up state permits for industrial and construction projects.
Governor-elect Josh Shapiro, left, and Lieutenant Governor-elect Austin Davis. HARRISBURG, Pa. — Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro will take office next month talking about how voters across the political spectrum in Pennsylvania gave him a mandate, a message he will carry into a state Capitol riven by partisanship and, recently, a breakdown in lawmaking.
Still, the state Senate remains firmly in Republican control, meaning that every new law must have a GOP stamp of approval. Now, five weeks into his transition, Shapiro is stressing bipartisanship, seeding his transition team with Republicans and avoiding radioactive political issues.Speaking to an audience of political and social elite at the Pennsylvania Society dinner in New York, Shapiro framed his powerhouse 15-point win in the November election as a bipartisan victory.
When he takes office Jan. 17, some of his top priorities will be familiar to Republicans from Wolf’s term in office. In remarks at a state Republican Party luncheon earlier this month in New York, the Senate’s top Republican, Kim Ward of Westmoreland County, said she was optimistic about what could be accomplished. Shapiro, she told the crowd, has a number of priorities that appeal to Republicans.
Lawmakers gave Shapiro more money to hire more agents and, following his office’s landmark grand jury report on, agreed to expand statutes of limitation. In the Capitol, the main event every year is passing a budget and, in their first years, both Wolf and former Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell floated ambitious tax proposals that precipitated protracted budget fights with Republican-controlled legislatures.“I think there’s this tendency to talk about bipartisanship,” Wolf said in an interview. “But that’s not a democracy. Democracy is where you openly and proudly disagree with each other. And you argue it out.
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