Vouchers are a bad policy idea for several reasons, but chief among them is that they're a black hole for state budgets. Propublica has documented the negative impact of Arizona's school voucher law, which was later used as a model for similar laws in a dozen other states. Shapiro advocating for this in PA not only goes against the position of most Democrats, it's also fiscally irresponsible (if you care about that sort of thing).
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.
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I don't believe this. It sounds like he came off as overly ambitious and "showboating" in his interview and Harris had a better connection with Walz. So then Shapiro called after their meeting and took himself out of the running. Which is an attempt to save face when you know you're not getting the gig.
John Fetterman made his reservations about Shapiro known to the Harris team, and once again it was primarily his obsessive focus on his own personal ambitions. Though of course Fetterman has an axe to grind when it comes to Shapiro.
They were going to call any pick she made too far left, who cares. At least they're going have to try harder to dig up dirt on Walz. Shapiro had a bunch of obvious scandals to harp on, including the potential cover-up of a woman's murder when he was the Pennsylvania Attorney General, to his botched handling of a sexual harassment complaint against one of his closest advisors in the governor's office.
Some of the same people saying forcing Biden out was a bad idea are also saying Walz is a bad pick. That should suggest something...
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