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Harrisburg – The Republican Party of Pennsylvania is today calling on Attorney General Josh Shapiro to take responsibility for his office’s failure to ensure Secretary Boockvar advertised a constitutional amendment that would have created a path to justice for thousands of childhood sexual abuse survivors. Boockvar has rightly resigned after forgetting to advertise the amendment […]

The PAGOP issues the following statement following Governor Wolf’s Budget Address: “The 2020 Elections sent a Republican majority to Harrisburg with a clear mandate: keep Governor Wolf under control.  New taxes and job-killing policies are not what voters had in mind. The Governor’s budget, which proposes an income tax increase, a minimum wage increase, and […]

The following statement regarding the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is issued on behalf of PAGOP Chairman Lawrence Tabas: “We are deeply grateful to President Donald J. Trump for all he has done to make America great again, and we trust he will continue to be a champion for the people and values we hold […]

“The members of the Republican National Committee strongly condemn the violence in and around the United States Capitol Building today in Washington, DC. These violent scenes we have witnessed do not represent acts of patriotism, but an attack on our country and its founding principles. Our Founding Fathers established a nation of laws, not a […]

Harrisburg, PA – At the request of the Trump campaign, the Republican presidential electors met today in Harrisburg to cast a conditional vote for Donald Trump and Mike Pence for President and Vice President respectively. “We took this procedural vote to preserve any legal claims that may be presented going forward” said Bernie Comfort, Pennsylvania […]

PAGOP COMMITTEE MEMBER TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 The Pennsylvania Republican Party has learned that an individual who attended our Fall meeting this past weekend tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday. This individual did not attend the Middletown Trump rally, and is largely asymptomatic, but out of abundance of caution, the PAGOP has personally called and […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Harrisburg – “I would like to thank my friend Speaker Turzai for his many years of dutiful service to the 28th House District and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” said Lawrence Tabas, Chairman of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania.  “His five plus years as Speaker have been some of the most productive the […]

PAGOP Chairman Lawrence Tabas issued the following statement following Governor Wolf’s unconstitutional change to the Election Tomorrow.  “The health and safety of all Pennsylvanians is our paramount priority, but Governor Wolf does not have the authority to unilaterally alter the terms of an election. The U.S. and Pennsylvania Constitutions clearly give the Legislature the sole authority […]

PAGOP Executive Director Vonne Andring issued the following statement on Governor Wolf taking time away from the COVID-19 State of Emergency and State Budget negotiations to campaign for Joe Biden: “The PAGOP hopes that Governor Wolf will confess to VP Joe Biden that nearly 80% of COVID-related deaths occurred in senior care facilities, but that […]

“It is unthinkable that PA Secretary of Health, Dr. Rachel Levine, would move her mother out of a personal care home, and into a hotel, while ordering nursing and personal care homes to accept COVID patients,” said PAGOP Chairman Lawrence Tabas.  “It is no coincidence that nearly 70% of COVID-related deaths in Pennsylvania occurred in […]