Problem Solvers Desperately Needed

I was disgusted when I read the January 12^th letter from Rep. Nick Pisciottano praising Sen. Bob Casey for securing $520,000 for Allegheny County to make county streets safer for pedestrians.   He says he is ‘thankful we have an effective leader like Casey’. This $520,000 was a minuscule 0.000043 percent of the $1,200,000,000,000 spending included in the Infrastructure Act.

Meanwhile, the ‘effective’ Senator Casey blindly supported President Biden when he opened America’s southern border to millions of illegal immigrants and now provides them with free cell phones, $5000 charge cards, bus and plane transportation, hotel and other housing, and schooling for kids who don’t speak English.  After sacrificing thousands of brave American soldiers in mid-east wars to keep our country safe, our southern border is now largely open to terrorists, drug dealers, criminals, and, sadly, trafficked children.

Casey recently cosponsored election-year showpiece legislation that would spend $billions to detect fentanyl at border checkpoints but would not stop ‘gotaways’ or reduce illegal immigration.  He has served three undistinguished terms with no major accomplishments, no major committee roles, and his opinions are rarely sought even by the liberal news media.  

Casey, once a moderate like his father, has become a reliable liberal vote and has definitively proved NOT to be a problem solver.   Meanwhile, his competitor Dave McCormick has an impressive record of accomplishments at West Point, in Afghanistan, in business, and in government service.  He’s the proven problem solver we desperately need in Washington. 

Larry Schultz