Letter to the editor: McCormick not fit to be our senator

Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate David McCormick is failing spectacularly at trying to connect with Pennsylvanians, and now he’s taken a step too far by pretending he grew up on a family farm.

Not only does he live in a rented home in Connecticut, but now it has come out that he has embellished his upbringing as a farmer despite the fact he was the CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund.

I’m a sixth-generation farmer. There is a big difference between people like myself who are carrying on a legacy and just trying to make our way providing for our families and growing food for our country and those like McCormick, whose family raised Arabian horses as a hobby on the farm he claims to have grown up on. No Pennsylvania farmer I know would call that “farming.”

It’s wrong for McCormick to try and label himself a farmer when he clearly hasn’t earned it. It’s wrong that he thought he could trick Pennsylvanians into believing what I consider a lie, just like he has done by saying he lives in Pennsylvania or stands up to China.

We need honest leadership from our senators. We need people who can genuinely connect with Pennsylvanians without having to be dishonest about their background.

McCormick is out of touch with Pennsylvanians. He lives in a Connecticut mansion and made his millions shipping American jobs overseas. That is the truth. He is unfit to be our next Pennsylvania senator.

Drew Ross Manko

Eighty Four The writer is farms and production manager for Ross Farms Inc.