Letter to the editor: We can't trust McCormick

David McCormick is pitching himself as a Pennsylvania “job creator” who we can trust to lead us. But I believe we can’t trust him because he is lying.

A steady stream of reports have uncovered the truth: McCormick has a long record of killing American jobs.

Now, we’ve learned McCormick eliminated hundreds of jobs in Pittsburgh as the CEO of FreeMarkets to protect his own bottom line.

In the years he took over as CEO, he cut hundreds of American jobs and shipped them overseas to India and China — a move that netted him millions and left Pennsylvania workers in the lurch.

It’s a pattern that has followed McCormick at every point of his business career. He laid off and outsourced more than 400 jobs as CEO of Bridgewater using taxpayer-funded subsidies; he invested $92 million in companies that outsourced American jobs — over 2,600 of which were in Pennsylvania; and he shorted the stocks of American steel manufacturers and invested in their foreign competitors.

Each time, it was the same: McCormick got rich while hardworking Pennsylvanians lost their jobs.

We can’t trust McCormick. Pennsylvanians deserve better. We deserve Sen. Bob Casey, who will work for all Pennsylvanians.

Diana Graham

Bridgeville