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

Here we go again. Josh Shapiro and Stacy Garrity get the statewide televised debate, while the rest of us are treated like we barely exist. And I don't want to hear, "Well, look at the polls." The polls are part of the same damn system. Many of these polls are framed as Shapiro versus Garrity. Candidates outside the two major parties are either dumped into "other" or not named at all. Then those same polling numbers are used to decide who deserves media coverage and who deserves debate access. How exactly is somebody supposed to build support in a poll when voters aren't even given their name as an option? That's not just a problem for me as a write-in candidate. Ken Krawchuk is literally on the November ballot as the Libertarian candidate. I'm not even a fan of most of his platform. I think a lot of his proposals have serious problems in which I've pointed out. But he did what Pennsylvania required him to do. He collected the signatures. He qualified. His name will appear on the ballot next to Shapiro and Garrity. That should earn him the basic courtesy of being treated like a candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. Then there is my campaign. I'm running as an independent write-in candidate. I've spent months developing detailed reform plans on property taxes, education, transportation, healthcare, utilities, elections, public safety and government accountability. I've been doing a much as i can on a grassroots budget, answering questions, publishing policy, reaching voters and running an actual statewide campaign. But because I don't have a D or an R beside my name, I'm supposed to accept being practically invisible in statewide political coverage? No. I'm not asking anybody to pretend a write-in campaign has the same built-in support as the two major parties. I'm asking for a fair shot to be heard. That's the part of this system people should really think about. Candidates outside the two major parties don't get much coverage because they aren't polling high enough. They don't poll high enough because they are not included in the polls. Then those same poll numbers are used to keep them out of debates, which guarantees millions more voters never hear from them. And around and around we go. Then every four years everybody wonders why Pennsylvania keeps bouncing between the same two political machines. Maybe because those are the only two choices the public is constantly shown. This isn't new either. In 2018, Ken Krawchuk and Green Party candidate Paul Glover were both on the gubernatorial ballot, but neither was included in the major Wolf-Wagner debate. Now we're back in 2026 and doing basically the same thing again. So I'll ask the obvious question. What exactly are they afraid might happen if serious candidates outside the Republican and Democratic machines actually get heard? Maybe nothing. Maybe this is just a political and media system that has been doing the same thing for so long nobody bothers questioning it anymore. Or maybe an outsider gets on that stage and makes a better argument. Maybe we expose holes in both major-party platforms. Maybe voters hear ideas neither party has been willing to touch. Maybe somebody watching realizes that Pennsylvania actually has more choices than the two names television keeps putting in front of them. I'm not asking for special treatment. I'm asking for the same opportunity to answer the questions, defend my plans and let Pennsylvania voters judge me for themselves. If Shapiro and Garrity have the strongest ideas, let them prove it. If Krawchuk's ideas don't hold up, let him defend them. And if my plans don't hold up, put me on the stage and challenge me too. That's what a debate is supposed to be. Let us speak. Then let the voters decide. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #PAPolitics #Pennsylvania #WriteIn #IndependentCandidates

I’ve made a decision on my running mate. Corey Garsteck will be joining me as my candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. Corey isn’t a career politician. He doesn’t come from the political machine, and he doesn’t have decades of government experience. What he does have is something I value a hell of a lot more: my trust. He’s hardworking, dependable, willing to learn, and not afraid to tell me when he thinks I’m wrong. I’m not looking for somebody to stand behind me and nod for four years. I want somebody who will do the work, challenge me when necessary, and help question the way Harrisburg operates. Neither one of us is going to pretend we have all the answers. We’ll research the issues, listen to people who know more than we do, ask questions, and make decisions based on the information in front of us and what we believe is best for Pennsylvania. More information about Corey and the ticket will be coming soon. James Moore for Governor Corey Garsteck for Lieutenant Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #PAPolitics #Pennsylvania #WriteIn

I’m officially releasing my Pennsylvania Election Integrity, Ballot Access and Fairness Reform, a 14-part plan covering everything from voter registration and voter ID to paper ballots, audits, candidate access, campaign finance, election crimes, county accountability, and how future election changes would actually be implemented. The basic idea is simple: Pennsylvania should have clear statewide rules, secure elections, fair access to the ballot, and a system the public can actually verify. Under my plan, Pennsylvania would require photo ID for in-person voting while providing free ID and protections for eligible voters who need to cure an identification issue. Voter registration would be affirmative opt-in, including at PennDOT. Elections would use voter-verifiable paper ballots as the controlling record, with strict chain-of-custody, cybersecurity, equipment testing, and backup procedures. Election Day would become a state holiday. Polls would be open from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Absentee voting would remain available for legitimate needs, but the system would return to in-person voting as the normal method. Every county would conduct hand audits, close elections would trigger full hand recounts, and the public would get far more transparency into counting, canvassing, audits, recounts, certification, and outstanding ballots. The plan would also replace the current party-controlled path to the general-election ballot for covered offices with a Top 4 Open Primary. Every voter would receive the same candidate ballot, regardless of party registration, and the top four candidates would advance to November. Political parties could still endorse and organize, but they would no longer be guaranteed a November ballot position. Candidate access would also be simplified. For Governor and Lieutenant Governor, the proposal uses a 2,000-signature requirement with geographic distribution across at least 10 counties, and Pennsylvania would create a secure digital petition system while permanently keeping paper petitions available. Major statewide and federal offices covered by the plan would require a majority winner. If no candidate receives more than 50% in November, the top two would advance to a runoff where constitutionally and federally permitted. The reform also establishes campaign-finance limits and disclosure rules, stronger protections against hidden political money and straw donors, penalties for intentional election fraud and tampering, equal observer rights, standardized county training, county readiness audits, and accountability for both county and state election officials. Some parts could be enacted directly by statute. Others, such as certain runoff provisions, would require constitutional changes. My plan spells out that difference instead of pretending every reform can simply be signed into law overnight. This is not one bill built around one election. It is a complete election system designed from voter registration all the way through certification. Secure elections. Fair ballot access. Transparent counting. Equal rules statewide. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #Pennsylvania #PAPolitics #ElectionReform #ElectionIntegrity #BallotAccess #WriteIn

I’m officially releasing my **Pennsylvania Healthcare Affordability, Access & Medicaid Accountability Reform**. Healthcare in Pennsylvania has become too expensive, too complicated, and too focused on managing problems instead of actually fixing them. My reform is built around one simple principle: **Treat the problem, not merely manage it.** That means getting people diagnosed earlier, cutting unnecessary barriers between patients and their doctors, lowering prescription and hospital costs, protecting access to care, cracking down on Medicaid fraud and waste, rebuilding mental-health capacity, and holding insurers, healthcare systems, contractors, government agencies, and patients accountable for the responsibilities that are actually within their control. The plan takes on insurance and prior authorization so companies cannot use endless delays, unnecessary fail-first rules, or AI-only decisions to block medically necessary care. It reforms prescription drugs and PBMs, strengthens hospital and provider price transparency, protects independent providers, and puts real oversight on Medicaid contractors and managed-care companies. It also strengthens mental-health treatment, rural healthcare, EMS, long-term care, hospice, patient safety, and access to doctors, specialists, and diagnostic testing. It includes stronger protections against abusive medical debt collection, better rules for medical records and patient access, a five-year medical-record digitization requirement, tighter healthcare cybersecurity, and clear accountability for harmful or misleading use of artificial intelligence. It also puts firm limits on government public-health authority by requiring due process, legislative oversight, privacy protections, time limits, and stronger protections for parents and families. Prevention and chronic disease are a major part of this plan too. That means earlier screening, better follow-up after abnormal results, better diabetes and obesity care, more attention to nutrition and metabolic health, and a stronger focus on diagnosing the actual cause of ongoing problems instead of endlessly repeating treatments that are not working. Patients deserve access to proper care, but patients also have a responsibility to make a reasonable effort to participate in treatment when they are capable of doing so. And this reform does **not** start with another tax. Before government asks Pennsylvanians for more money, it should first eliminate duplication, consolidate or dissolve unnecessary departments and programs, cut administrative waste, reform bad contracts, recover fraud and improper payments, use existing healthcare dollars more effectively, and maximize appropriate federal funding. If a program works, prove it. If a contractor provides value, prove it. If an agency needs to exist, prove it. If a treatment is working, continue it. If it is not working, figure out why and change course. Healthcare should be about getting people better, protecting patients, supporting honest providers, and making sure taxpayers are not endlessly financing waste, fraud, bureaucracy, and systems that fail to deliver results. The full reform is now available at **mooreforpa.com**. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #Pennsylvania #PAPolitics #HealthcareReform #Healthcare #Medicaid #PatientRights

If I'm going to dig through Josh Shapiro's record and Stacy Garrity's proposals, then I'm not going to pretend my own campaign should somehow be exempt. Put mine under the same microscope. I'll start with what I believe I've done right. I've spent this campaign putting actual proposals on paper instead of building everything around slogans. Property taxes, education, transportation, utilities, healthcare, elections, public safety, government accountability and other major issues. I've put numbers, timelines and specific goals behind many of those proposals because I believe candidates should have to explain what they actually intend to do, how they plan to do it and what the tradeoffs are. I'm also not coming out of Harrisburg. I'm not a career politician. My experience comes from running businesses, leading organizations, coaching, working with youth programs, dealing with budgets and solving problems outside government. I consider that a strength. But I'm not going to pretend there aren't legitimate questions about it either. I've never held elected office or run a state agency. I have less government experience than candidates who have spent years working inside Pennsylvania government. Voters have every right to ask whether my experience outside Harrisburg translates into leading the Commonwealth. But let's keep that criticism in perspective too. Most candidates running for governor for the first time have never managed the entire Commonwealth. Unless you're the incumbent governor, you're almost always asking voters to trust you with responsibilities you haven't personally handled at that level before. So the real question isn't whether I've already been governor. It's whether I can lead people, understand the numbers, make difficult decisions, surround myself with qualified people, recognize when something isn't working and fix it. I believe I can. But I should have to earn people's confidence, not just tell them to trust me. Then there is the campaign itself. I'm running as a write-in candidate without anything close to the money, staff, advertising, party infrastructure or statewide organization Shapiro and Garrity have. Voters have to know who I am, remember my name and physically write it on the ballot. That's not a small disadvantage. It's a massive one. Some of my reforms are also ambitious. I'm not talking about changing a line or two in the state budget and calling it reform. I'm talking about major changes to property taxes, education, transportation, government structure and other systems Pennsylvania has operated under for decades. That creates a fair question: can I actually get those reforms through Harrisburg? But that question applies to every candidate. Any governor promising major changes to taxes, education, transportation, healthcare, energy or elections is going to need the General Assembly for much of it. Shapiro does. Garrity does. I do. Nobody gets elected governor and suddenly becomes king of Pennsylvania. Some may think they are. The question specific to me is that I don't have an established Harrisburg coalition waiting to push my agenda through. I would have to build one. I'd have to convince Republicans and Democrats to support reforms that may upset people in their own parties. I'd have to negotiate without watering everything down until the original reform barely exists. I'd have to build public support and make legislators explain why they're supporting or opposing the proposals. That's going to be difficult. And because my plans are ambitious, people should absolutely challenge my math. If I say school property taxes can be cut 50%, ask me exactly how the funding works. If I say county and municipal property taxes can be reduced, ask me where the savings and replacement revenue come from. If I say we can phase out the gas tax or eliminate passenger tolls, ask me how transportation gets funded afterward. If I say government restructuring will save money, ask what it costs to implement and when the savings actually appear. If I give a three-year or five-year timeline, ask what has to happen legislatively and administratively to meet it. Then ask every other candidate the exact same questions. That's the standard I want. I'm also going to get things wrong. I've already changed parts of proposals during this campaign because additional research showed there was a better way to do something, because somebody raised a legitimate problem I hadn't considered, or because the numbers needed adjusted. I'm not embarrassed by that. I'd be more concerned about a candidate who develops hundreds of pages of policy and somehow never discovers that one of their original assumptions was wrong. If somebody proves one of my numbers doesn't work, I'll fix the number. If Pennsylvania law creates a problem with something I've proposed, I'll deal with the law. If somebody comes up with a better way to accomplish the same goal, I'll look at it. Changing a proposal because the evidence says it should change isn't weakness. Knowing something is wrong and refusing to change it because you're afraid of being called a flip-flopper is weakness. So there are my negatives. I don't have elected-government experience. I don't have an established Harrisburg coalition. I'm running an extremely difficult write-in campaign with limited resources. I'm proposing major reforms that would require significant legislative cooperation. And there are parts of those reforms that will undoubtedly need to be adjusted as they're tested against legislation, budgets and real-world implementation. Those are legitimate concerns. The positives are that I've put detailed proposals out where people can actually examine them, I'm willing to explain the numbers behind them, I don't expect people to agree with me on everything, and I'm willing to admit when somebody proves me wrong. You shouldn't trust a candidate because they tell you they have no weaknesses. You should probably start worrying when they tell you that. So judge my campaign the same way I judge theirs. Read the proposals. Check the numbers. Question the assumptions. Point out the problems. If I'm going to demand answers from Josh Shapiro and Stacy Garrity, I damn well better be willing to answer for my own plans too. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #PAPolitics #Pennsylvania #Accountability #WriteIn

Stacy Garrity is running on the argument that Pennsylvania needs somebody different from Josh Shapiro. I agree Pennsylvania needs something different. But being the alternative doesn't mean you automatically get a free pass. Start with the 2020 election. Garrity said in January 2021 that the election was "tarnished forever." Then at a Trump rally in 2022 she went even further and said, referring to Trump, "we know that he won." Since then she's tried to soften those comments, saying there were irregularities and confusing election guidance and even saying she got "caught up" at a Trump rally. I'm sorry, but if you want to be Governor of Pennsylvania, "I got caught up" isn't much of an explanation. The governor appoints the Secretary of the Commonwealth and plays a major role in how Pennsylvania elections are administered. Voters are entitled to know exactly what you believe happened in 2020 and exactly what election laws you intend to change. Not slogans. Not rally lines. Put the plan on paper. Energy needs the same treatment. Garrity talks about lifting a drilling moratorium on day one. Her own campaign has clarified that she's talking about restrictions on new drilling sites in state parks and new leases in state forests, not some statewide shutdown of Pennsylvania natural-gas production. That's an important distinction considering Pennsylvania is already one of the biggest natural-gas-producing states in America. If your argument is that opening more public land to drilling is going to materially lower people's utility bills, show the numbers. How much new production? How long before it reaches market? What infrastructure is required? What does it do to actual household bills? Campaign phrases about "unleashing Pennsylvania energy" are easy. Utility bills require math. Then there are data centers. Garrity once complained that Pennsylvania was falling behind other states and needed more data-center development. Once opposition grew over electricity demand, land, water and infrastructure, her position shifted toward a pause and stronger restrictions. She now talks about brownfields, industrial locations and giving communities more control. Some of that makes sense. But where is the full plan? How long is the pause? What qualifies a project to move forward? Who pays for new generation, transmission, roads and water infrastructure? What protections keep residential customers from subsidizing enormous corporate power demand? What happens when a project conflicts with a municipality that doesn't want it? Those details matter a hell of a lot more than saying you'll "do it the right way." Her positions on other major issues have changed too. Garrity celebrated the overturning of Roe, previously sold "Defund Planned Parenthood" and "Born to be Pro-Life" campaign merchandise, and now says Pennsylvania is in a "decent place" and that she would respect current law. People can change their minds. That's allowed. But when somebody is asking to become governor, voters also get to ask what changed. The same applies across the rest of her platform. If you want major school-choice expansion, explain how you handle special education, transportation, district fixed costs and accountability. If you want dramatically more natural-gas development, explain the infrastructure and the effect on residential prices. If you're going to pause data centers, tell us exactly what ends the pause. Stacy Garrity has a record as Treasurer, and there are things in that record she deserves credit for. I'm not going to pretend otherwise just because we're running for the same office. But Treasurer and Governor are very different jobs. If you want control of an executive branch overseeing education, elections, healthcare, transportation, energy, environmental regulation and tens of billions of dollars in spending, "I'm not Josh Shapiro" isn't enough. Show Pennsylvania the details. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #PAPolitics #Pennsylvania #Accountability #WriteIn

Josh Shapiro loves telling Pennsylvanians that he gets stuff done. Fine. Then the entire record should be fair game, not just the pieces that make it into campaign commercials. Pennsylvania's Independent Fiscal Office says the underlying General Fund structural deficit was about $3.9 billion in 2025-26 and, without new revenues proposed by the administration, projects it reaching $6.7 billion this year and $8.4 billion by 2029-30. Shapiro didn't personally create every dollar of that problem, but after nearly four years as governor, he doesn't get to act like Pennsylvania's financial direction has nothing to do with his administration either. Then there are the budgets. Pennsylvania has now missed the June 30 budget deadline five years in a row. Again, Shapiro doesn't control the legislature and I'm not going to pretend he does. Republicans and Democrats in Harrisburg share responsibility. But the guy whose campaign slogan is basically "I get things done" is also the governor sitting at the negotiating table while Pennsylvania keeps missing the deadline. At some point the slogan has to meet the record. Transparency isn't much prettier. Shapiro's 2023 inauguration cost more than $4 million, but investigators were able to identify only a fraction of the donors who paid for it. High-dollar sponsorship packages included VIP access and opportunities to interact with the governor. Instead of simply releasing all the names and putting the issue to rest, much of that donor information remained undisclosed. Then there is Team PA, a nonprofit that doesn't publicly disclose all of its donors and has paid expenses connected to Shapiro's appearances. In 2023 alone, Shapiro reported more than $12,000 in transportation, lodging or hospitality paid by Team PA, including sporting events. Maybe every dollar was perfectly legitimate. Then disclose who funded it. Transparency shouldn't become complicated only when somebody asks where the money came from. His administration also paid $295,000 in taxpayer money to settle a sexual-harassment complaint involving senior aide Mike Vereb. The agreement included a confidentiality provision and was signed weeks before Vereb resigned. A settlement does not prove the allegations were true, but taxpayers paid the money. They are entitled to ask how the situation was handled and why one of the governor's closest aides remained in the administration as long as he did. Then came more than $1 million in security work at Shapiro's privately owned home. The security threat was real. Nobody should minimize an attack on the governor or his family. But Attorney General Dave Sunday's review concluded that established Commonwealth contracting procedures were not followed and that the original payment mechanism was not authorized under existing law. The state ultimately had to settle with contractors because the work had already been completed. Protect the governor, absolutely. Follow the law while doing it. There is also a pattern of announcing positions and then changing direction when the political pressure arrives. Shapiro supported a school-voucher proposal in 2023, then agreed to veto the funding when House Democrats wouldn't support it. Republicans said he broke a deal. Shapiro said there was never a final deal. Whatever version you believe, his signature education compromise collapsed almost immediately. Data centers are another example. His administration spent years aggressively courting major development and celebrated enormous investments. Once communities started raising serious concerns about electricity demand, water use, land, infrastructure and utility costs, Shapiro suddenly started rolling out tougher standards. Changing your position when new information comes in can be responsible governing. But voters are also allowed to ask why those protections weren't part of the deal before Pennsylvania started rolling out the red carpet. None of this means Josh Shapiro has accomplished nothing. He has. But "Get Stuff Done" isn't an exemption from scrutiny. If you want credit for everything that happens under your administration, you also have to answer for the deficits, late budgets, secret donors, taxpayer settlements, procurement failures and policy reversals. That's what accountability actually looks like. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #PAPolitics #Pennsylvania #Accountability #WriteIn

I am not against data centers. I am against Pennsylvania families subsidizing them. If a multibillion-dollar company needs new substations, transmission lines, water systems, roads, or other major infrastructure to make its project work, I do not want that bill quietly dumped onto the people already paying utility bills every month. My position is simple: large-load developments pay the infrastructure costs they directly create. Use brownfields and existing industrial sites first. Protect productive farmland. Make development fit Pennsylvania instead of forcing Pennsylvania to fit whatever a corporation wants. If a project produces good jobs and real economic value, build it. But if Big Tech needs the power, water, roads, and infrastructure, Big Tech pays for it. Pennsylvania should welcome development without handing corporations a blank check paid by everybody else. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #DataCenters #EnergyReform #Brownfields #Ratepayers #Pennsylvania

Josh Shapiro spent years aggressively courting data-center development in Pennsylvania. His administration celebrated Amazon's $20 billion investment and used faster permitting to help move major projects along. Then Pennsylvanians started raising hell about electricity demand, water, land use, local control and who was actually going to pay for all of this infrastructure. Now Shapiro has gone in the other direction and imposed much tougher requirements through executive action, including local approval and binding energy, environmental and transparency standards. Changing policy when you learn something isn't automatically wrong. Hell, I WANT politicians to change something when the facts show they were wrong. But then explain the change. And while we're having that conversation, explain why Pennsylvania is still maintaining a data-center sales-tax exemption projected to cost the Commonwealth more than $2 billion by mid-2031. If we're suddenly serious enough about these projects to put tougher rules on them, then we should be serious enough to look at the damn tax breaks too. Show Pennsylvania what we're giving up. Show what we're getting back. Then let people decide whether the deal actually makes sense. James Moore for Governor Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #JoshShapiro #DataCenters #EnergyPolicy #Pennsylvania

Getting cancer, having a heart attack, needing emergency surgery, or watching your kid end up in the hospital is bad enough. Nobody should survive the medical crisis only to find out the financial crisis is just getting started. My healthcare reform would strengthen protections against abusive medical-debt collection, require clearer billing, improve notice before accounts get shipped off to collections, and create realistic payment options for people dealing with legitimate financial hardship. That does not mean pretending healthcare is free. Hospitals and providers deserve to be paid for legitimate care. Patients also deserve to know what the hell they are being charged for, why they owe it, what assistance is available, and what options they have before paperwork, fees, collections, and legal threats start piling up. Healthcare is supposed to treat the problem. It should not create a second crisis after the first one. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #HealthcareReform #MedicalDebt #PennsylvaniaFamilies #PAPolitics

Pennsylvania's $50.8 billion budget was sold as fiscally responsible. Then you look under the hood. One of the biggest things used to make the numbers work was delaying two Medicaid managed-care payments worth about $1.3 billion EACH. That's roughly $2.6 billion that wasn't eliminated, wasn't saved and wasn't magically found somewhere. It was pushed into another accounting period. The budget also relied on transfers from special funds. And to be fair, this wasn't something Josh Shapiro dreamed up by himself. Senate Republicans pushed the payment delay and Shapiro and House Democrats ultimately agreed to it as part of the deal. That's exactly why I'm tired of the red-team, blue-team bullshit surrounding state budgets. Everybody gets to brag about being responsible while the bill gets moved around until the spreadsheet looks better. If I owe somebody $1,300 and move the payment from this month to next month, I didn't save $1,300. Pennsylvania government doesn't get its own version of arithmetic. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #PAGovernor #Pennsylvania #PABudget #Medicaid #FiscalResponsibility

Pennsylvania already gets its cut while people are alive. Income taxes. Sales taxes. Property taxes. Business taxes. Fees everywhere you turn. Then somebody dies and Harrisburg can come back for another bite through the inheritance tax. I want it gone. Pennsylvania currently taxes many transfers to direct descendants at 4.5%, siblings at 12%, and many other heirs at 15%. Spouses and certain other transfers are exempt. Families spend decades building a house, a farm, a business, savings, or whatever they are fortunate enough to leave behind. I do not believe the Commonwealth should treat the death of a family member like another damn revenue opportunity. And I am not going to play the politician game and pretend eliminating it has no budget impact. It does. We deal with that through spending reform, audits, consolidation, and making actual priorities instead of automatically reaching back into somebody else's pocket. Family wealth should stay with the family that built it. Grief is not revenue. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #InheritanceTax #TaxReform #PennsylvaniaFamilies #PAPolitics

Josh Shapiro built a lot of his brand around “getting stuff done.” Then Pennsylvania should be able to ask a pretty basic question about the state budget: Why can't Harrisburg get it done on time? The 2026-27 budget was signed almost two weeks after the June 30 deadline, and it was Pennsylvania's fifth straight late budget. The previous four were also late, including two that went more than 100 days past deadline. Divided government is real. Republicans control the Senate, Democrats control the House, and the Governor doesn't get to dictate the final deal. But negotiating with people who disagree with you isn't some bizarre surprise. That's governing. Pennsylvania has no problem giving taxpayers, businesses and local governments deadlines. Harrisburg should occasionally meet one of its own. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #PAGovernor #Pennsylvania #JoshShapiro #PABudget #GovernmentAccountability

Pennsylvania has increased public-school funding by more than $3 billion since Josh Shapiro took office, including another $678 million in the 2026–27 budget. The Shapiro administration says graduation rates have risen, attendance has improved, more teachers are being certified, career and technical education has expanded, and some districts have reported improved test results. Those results should be measured seriously. So should everything that remains broken. My education approach would pair funding with statewide academic standards, strong K–5 literacy, limits on social promotion and grade floors, meaningful graduation competency, financial literacy, civics, life skills, discipline, parental rights, and administrative accountability. Education funding matters. What students actually learn matters just as much. The question should never be simply how much Pennsylvania spends. The question should be what Pennsylvania students can actually do because of it. James Moore for Governor mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #EducationReform #PennsylvaniaSchools #ReadyForLife

Stacy Garrity says Pennsylvania should open more state land to natural-gas development and has specifically said she would move to lift restrictions on new drilling sites in state parks and new leases in state forests. Okay... Which land? That's where the slogan ends and governing starts. Which state parks? Which forests? Existing infrastructure or new surface disturbance? How much acreage? What royalty structure? What water protections? What reclamation requirements? And what happens when drilling revenue starts getting built into the state budget and Harrisburg suddenly becomes dependent on leasing more land to keep the numbers working? Pennsylvania can absolutely use its natural resources. But “drill more” is not a complete public-lands policy. Those lands belong to Pennsylvanians. Tell them exactly what you're willing to open, what you're not willing to touch, and what protections come with it. That's the damn plan that needs to be on the table. James Moore for Governor They Couted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. MooreForPA.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #StacyGarrity #PennsylvaniaEnergy #PublicLands #UnboughtUnafraid

After the arson attack at the Governor's Residence, increased security for Josh Shapiro and his family was obviously justified. That is not the issue. The issue is how Pennsylvania ended up with more than $1 million in security work at Shapiro's privately owned home when Treasury later concluded the state lacked legal authority to pay for that construction through the original process. The work included a new security system along with extensive grounds and landscaping work. After Treasury initially blocked payment, more than $1 million was ultimately approved through a settlement authorized by the Attorney General to resolve the unpaid vendor claims. That's exactly the kind of situation where government should have had clear rules BEFORE the work started. Protect the Governor. Protect his family. Spend what is legitimately necessary to respond to a credible threat. But when public money is improving privately owned property, somebody better be able to explain the legal authority, contracting process, ownership of the improvements, oversight, and exactly what taxpayers are paying for. Security does not eliminate accountability. If anything, spending more than a million dollars makes accountability even more important. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com

Jason Richey says we need to “unleash Pennsylvania energy.” Unleash it from what? Pennsylvania is already the second-largest natural gas producer in the United States. We produce roughly four times as much natural gas as we use. We are the second-largest net supplier of total energy to other states, behind only Texas, and Pennsylvania sends more electricity across state lines than any other state in the country. Pennsylvania isn't sitting on an untapped energy industry waiting for politicians to discover it. We are already an energy powerhouse. So when I hear another candidate say the answer is more drilling, more pipelines, more gas-fired plants and an LNG export terminal on the Delaware River, my first question is simple: What's actually new here? The Delaware River LNG idea has been floating around for years. Pennsylvania created an LNG Export Task Force in 2022. Chester was discussed as a possible location and residents pushed back hard. Now a potential multibillion-dollar LNG project has resurfaced around Eddystone, and residents and environmental organizations are already organizing against that proposal too. This isn't some fresh idea somebody just came up with on the campaign trail. Then Richey makes an even bigger promise. He says this will “significantly bring down your bills.” Show the math. How much additional gas production are you proposing? How many new power plants? How many megawatts? How many pipelines? When will they actually be operating? What will all of that infrastructure cost? Who pays for it? And most importantly, how much does the average Pennsylvania family's electric bill go down? Because simply producing more energy does not automatically mean Pennsylvanians get cheaper electricity. We're already producing enormous amounts of it. And if you're simultaneously talking about dramatically expanding LNG exports, then you're also talking about creating another major source of demand for Pennsylvania natural gas. That may make economic sense in some circumstances, but you don't get to simply declare that exporting more gas overseas will “significantly” lower household utility bills without showing how. There's another question I think Pennsylvanians deserve answered too. Who helped develop these plans? Richey has been endorsed by the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association PAC. Garrity's major financial supporters include a PAC funded by manufacturing and construction interests. That is not proof anybody was promised anything, and I'm not claiming that it is. But when a campaign backed by interests connected to manufacturing and construction starts promoting billions of dollars worth of power plants, pipelines and LNG infrastructure, asking who was involved in developing those proposals isn't conspiracy theory. It's basic transparency. Who have you met with? Which energy companies, developers, construction interests and industry organizations helped shape the proposal? Do any major campaign contributors stand to financially benefit from these projects? Put it all on the table. I'm not against Pennsylvania producing more energy. I'm not against natural gas. I'm not against building infrastructure when the numbers make sense. What I am against is pretending Pennsylvania hasn't already unleashed its energy industry and then promising families their bills are going to drop without showing them the math. Pennsylvania already produces more energy than it consumes. The real challenge is making sure Pennsylvanians benefit from that strength instead of being asked to subsidize massive new infrastructure while somebody else gets the contracts, the exports and the profits. That's the energy discussion Pennsylvania actually needs to have. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #PAPolitics #Pennsylvania #WriteIn

A little update on how I’m going to be doing videos going forward. I stopped doing the weekly live Q&A a couple weeks ago. Instead, I’m switching to shorter, more focused live videos about three times a week. Each live will be around 15 minutes and focus mainly on one subject. It could be one of my policy proposals, an opponent’s proposal, an issue affecting Pennsylvania, or a major news story that deserves a closer look. If people have questions while I’m live, I’ll take some of those too. I’ll also be releasing shorter prerecorded videos, usually around 2 to 5 minutes, when there’s something I want to explain, fact-check, respond to, or break down. I think this format will work better. One subject at a time, tighter discussions, and more opportunities to dig into the actual details instead of trying to cram everything into one weekly Q&A. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #JamesMooreForGovernor #PAPolitics #Pennsylvania #WriteIn

Pennsylvania’s 2026–27 General Fund budget is $50.85 billion. That budget passed with bipartisan support, and the Shapiro administration points to investments in education, workforce development, public safety, tax credits, and other programs as evidence of progress. My standard is straightforward: When government spends more, taxpayers should be able to see what they received for it. Show the performance measures. Show which programs worked. Show which programs failed. Show where duplication exists. Show what can be consolidated or eliminated. And before Harrisburg creates another program, audit what taxpayers are already funding. Spending is an input. Results are the point. My approach would pair budgeting with aggressive program audits, measurable performance standards, consolidation where possible, and structural reform instead of assuming that a larger appropriation automatically solves the underlying problem. James Moore for Governor mooreforpa.com #MooreForPA #PennsylvaniaBudget #GovernmentReform #Accountability

Josh Shapiro loves pointing to the Eli Lilly deal as proof that Pennsylvania is “competing and winning.” And landing a $3.5 billion manufacturing facility with at least 850 new jobs is absolutely significant. Now let's talk about the part politicians never seem quite as excited to put in the giant headline. Pennsylvania committed $100 MILLION in public support to help land the project through tax credits and state grants. The Commonwealth also committed up to another $5 million for workforce training. That doesn't automatically make it a bad deal. But when taxpayers are putting that kind of money on the table for one of the largest pharmaceutical companies on Earth, I want the entire agreement sitting under a damn microscope. How many of those jobs have to actually materialize? How long do they have to remain? What happens if the hiring numbers fall short? What gets clawed back if the company changes plans five years from now? What exactly is the taxpayer cost per permanent job after every incentive is counted? Economic development should not mean politicians announce the private investment number in giant letters and whisper the public subsidy in the fine print. If Pennsylvania puts taxpayer money into a corporate deal, Pennsylvania should be able to show exactly what taxpayers bought with it. Not a ribbon cutting. Results. James Moore for Governor They counted us out. Now write us in. Unbought. Unafraid. mooreforpa.com