I was disgusted when I read Rep. Nick Pisciottano’s letter praising Sen. Bob Casey for securing $520,000 for Allegheny County to make county streets safer for pedestrians (“Casey helping to keep pedestrians safe,” Jan. 12, TribLive). He says he is “thankful we have an effective leader like Casey.” This $520,000 was a minuscule 0.000043% of the $1,200,000,000,000 spending included in the Infrastructure Act.
Meanwhile, the “effective” Senator Casey blindly supported President Biden when he essentially opened America’s southern border to millions of illegal immigrants and now provides many of them with free cellphones, $5,000 charge cards, bus and plane transportation, hotel and other housing and schooling for kids who don’t speak English.
After sacrificing thousands of brave American soldiers in Middle East wars to keep our country safe, our southern border is now largely open to terrorists, drug dealers, criminals and, sadly, trafficked children.
Casey recently co-sponsored election-year showpiece legislation that would spend billions to detect fentanyl at border checkpoints but would not stop “got aways” or reduce illegal immigration. He has served three undistinguished terms with no major accomplishments and no major committee roles, and his opinions are rarely sought, even by the liberal news media.
Casey, once a moderate like his father, has become a reliable liberal vote and has definitively proved not to be a problem solver.
Meanwhile, his competitor, Dave McCormick, has an impressive record of accomplishments at West Point, in Afghanistan, in business and in government service. He’s the proven problem solver we desperately need in Washington.
Larry Schultz
Murrysville