Franklin County Democrats 🫏

Official twitter account of the Franklin County Democratic Committee 💙 fighting the good fight in a 🔴 county.

[PA Democratic Party @PADemParty]

Congratulations to Chair @DePasqualePA on his reelection and to our NEW Vice Chair @JamilaHWinder on her election! Their leadership, alongside Democrats across the Commonwealth, will help us build on our momentum and deliver victories up and down the ballot in November.

The Pennsylvania Democratic Party is ready for the fight ahead!

[Eugene DePasquale @DePasqualePA]

Next Sat I’ll ask @PADemParty to re-elect me Chair. Also asking they elect @JamilaHWinder as Vice Chair. She helps lead PA’s 3rd largest county & will be a great partner to make sure we deliver big wins to keep @JoshShapiroPA getting stuff done & get our country back on track.

[Cameron Schroy @CameronSchroy]

Taking money out of your left pocket just to put it in your right pocket with a few dollars missing 🙃

[Cameron Schroy @CameronSchroy]

In Franklin County we ran 9pts ahead of registration.

Tied the Chambersburg borough council 5-5.

Picked up 2 council seats in Greencastle.

Picked up 2 council seats in Mercersburg.

Elected Dems to mayor in Shippensburg & Mercersburg.

When we work — we win

[Association of State Democratic Committees @DemStateParties]

Congrats to @DePasqualePA, and thank you to @SenSharifStreet for your service to the @PADems

Excited to see a Democratic Pennsylvania in the 2025 State Supreme Court Race, the 2026 midterms, and beyond!

[Ken Martin @kenmartin73]

In recent weeks, there's been renewed conversation about my longstanding support for a neutrality pledge within the Democratic National Committee.

Here’s a 🧵on why the Democratic Party must stay neutral in primaries.

[Franklin County Democrats 🫏 @DemsPafc]

@micahmj11 Thank you for keeping us up to date.

[Franklin County Democrats 🫏 @DemsPafc]

@Punished_Jess He was a very conservative Dem. LBJ fan. Liked Carter. Very pro-Vietnam War.

[Franklin County Democrats 🫏 @DemsPafc]

@ZeiglerForPA We’d clear out a lot of our problems if every politically engaged Dem were on their precinct committee.

[Franklin County Democrats 🫏 @DemsPafc]

@bluhue123 💙

[Cameron Schroy @CameronSchroy]

When I got to meet Sen. @Bob_Casey for the first time, I asked for a picture. He said “Sure, but it might ruin your career.”

For 18 yrs, he fought for a better PA in the Senate. His leadership, dignity, wit and responsiveness will be missed.

Thanks for the picture Senator.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Donald Trump lied and said he has “no idea who is behind” Project 2025.

Now, he’s tapping one of its chief architects, Russ Vought, as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget—a job Vought held during Trump’s first term.

[NEENERS777, ABORTION BANS KILL MOMS. @marygribbin809]

THIS WILL ALWAYS BE HIS LEGACY.

[Sarah McBride @SarahEMcBride]

Every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully, I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness.

[Franklin County Democrats 🫏 @DemsPafc]

@NancyMace So since McBride looks and presents as a woman, why do you want her using the men’s restroom? Isn’t that the opposite of what you want?

[Franklin County Democrats 🫏 @DemsPafc]

Weren’t right-wingers mad about 15 minute cities a few months ago?

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Excited to see Burgum land a cabinet role in the new administration.

He's a YIMBY abundance guy:

"We invented zoning. And zoning came during the Industrial Revolution when there was a lot of air pollution. People said, "Hey, we're going to have the factories here and the people here, and we got to keep them separate." And then we went even further and said, "Well, here's the kind of homes that can be and retails there."

It was a one dimensional map, and you draw it out and say, everyone, all these four things have got to be separate. And yes, that was great for people that built roads, and was great for the car companies. And then we built cities all over America that are designed for automobiles and not designed for people.

And then if you take a look at your cost, it's a linear feed of sewer and water and sidewalk and roads. And then when you get more of that, you need to have more fire stations. Low income. If you get if you have a neighborhood that's all houses, if you want to have a coffee shop that looks like a house, you should be all of a coffee shop.

Because then people say, "When I leave my starter home, I want to move to a new home. It's got to have three cars, three car garage wise, have three car garage," because the mom, the dad and the kids all got a car to be able to drive to school, drive to church, drive to a restaurant, drive to a grocery store. Of course, you know that because you can't walk to anything.

And then people will go on a vacation, and they'll say, "Wow, that was the most amazing vacation I ever had." Why? Well, because they went to some place where they could walk, and everything was right there. Well, you can actually have that in our own states.

You just have to design and you haven't sent you know, there's places in Northern Europe that have snow where people bike all winter long. You can't hardly you can find a place like that in the US, because we don't put the investment into building the infrastructure for multimodal transportation.

So I think one of the things that that we have to look at as country, our housing costs are high in part because of the way that we've designed our cities. Check out form-based code. There's some really interesting things that are there.

And you guys talked about beginning the granny flats and other stuff, but part of is we've got to get the coffee shop, the barber shop and law firms back into residential neighborhoods in ways that can help lower the cost and create services where you don't need a car for everything."

[Franklin County Democrats 🫏 @DemsPafc]

We also didn’t have Social Security, Medicare, or most modern features of society either

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

For most of our country’s history

the federal government was funded by tariffs, there was no income tax, the budget was (mostly) balanced, and federal spending was less than 10% of GDP.

[abc27 News @abc27News]

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) is being floated as a future standard-bearer for Democrats following the party’s stunning nationwide defeat on Election Day.
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