Citizens Voice Letter to the Editor: “If McCormick Wants To Live In Connecticut … Don’t Come Back To Pennsylvania To Attempt To Buy A U.S. Senate Seat”
Citizens Voice Letter to the Editor: “David McCormick Appears Intent On Slashing Seniors’ Benefits”
PENNSYLVANIA — Pennsylvanians are calling out Connecticut hedge-fund CEO and mega-millionaire David McCormick for lying about living in Pennsylvania and supporting policies that would raise prices for seniors during Older Americans Month.
Here’s What Pennsylvanians Are Saying:
Citizens Voice: McCormick’s money can’t make him a Pennsylvanian
- On Sept. 21, carpetbagger Dave McCormick flew in from his $16 million mansion on the “Gold Coast” of Connecticut to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to announce that he was going to run for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, again.
- This will be McCormick’s second attempt to become a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. In 2022 McCormick tried to buy the Republican nomination for the Senate by spending $14 million of his own money.
- McCormick’s first order of business will be to try and convince Pennsylvanian’s that he is one of us. McCormick doesn’t live in Pennsylvania, he lives in Connecticut. He has been chartering private jets to fly him to campaign events in Pennsylvania and then flies back home to Connecticut.
- McCormick has a lot of his own money to spend and he made that money by outsourcing American jobs to China and India while he was CEO of Bridgewater Associates.
- What McCormick doesn’t understand is that Pennsylvanians keep electing Bob Casey because they know what a great public servant he has been.
- While Casey has spent his time in politics working for the citizens of Pennsylvania, McCormick has spent his time serving his own selfish interests as CEO of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund.
- If McCormick wants to live in Connecticut, that’s all well and good, but don’t come back to Pennsylvania to attempt to buy a U.S. Senate seat.
Centre Daily Times: Keep carpetbaggers out of PA
- What’s with the Pennsylvania Republican Party’s love for carpetbaggers?
- Now the PA GOP has done it again. This year we have “Connecticut Dave McCormick” hoping his millions will buy him a PA Senate seat.
- Yes, “Connecticut Dave” was born in Pennsylvania. But he never mentions that his real ties are to the Nutmeg State, where he lived during his Wall Street years and where he spends most of his time even now. And what does it say about a grown man who proudly touts his high school sports career as one of his Senate-worthy accomplishments?
- New Jersey and Connecticut elect their own Senators. Why haven’t Oz and McCormick used their millions to run for a Senate seat from where they actually live?
- Pennsylvania has more than three million registered Republicans. It’s sad that the PA Republican Party can’t find a real Pennsylvanian to run for U.S. Senate.
- Pennsylvania voters saw [through] “New Jersey Oz” in 2022 and will see through “Connecticut Dave” in 2024.
Citizens Voice: Casey has been a champion for PA seniors
- May is Older Americans Month, a time to both recognize the contributions of older Americans and reaffirm our country’s commitment to look after our seniors.
- … David McCormick appears intent on slashing seniors’ benefits, saying they “aren’t sustainable” and his children won’t “be able to live under the same entitlements that all of us here are.” That would significantly raise the cost of living for me and millions of Pennsylvania seniors.
- McCormick has criticized the Inflation Reduction Act, something Casey fought for, which allows Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, caps out-of-pocket medical expenses and caps insulin at $35 a month for seniors.
- But McCormick’s idea to make cuts to seniors’ benefits would bring us back to a bleak reality where too many seniors would be unable to heat their homes, pay for groceries or keep the lights on as they try to cover medical expenses.
- As we use this month to remind ourselves of the commitment our country has made to care for our seniors, let us not forget in November that McCormick is turning his back on Pennsylvania seniors.
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