Beaver County Radio News Staff. Published February 19, 2024 1:33 P.M.

(Beaver County, Pa) Governor Josh Shapiro was a guest on Beaver County Radio last week, when he made a comment suggesting he did not know who State Representative Josh Kail is. Shapiro was asked about Kail’s comments towards him, which included calling him a “California Democrat”. Kail responded Monday to the remarks made by the Governor.

“Look about a year ago, the governor and I worked together on the East Palestine train derailment situation. My office is right above his office in the capital, but what’s more concerning to me isn’t that he doesn’t remember who I am, what’s more concerning to me is that he doesn’t remember his own campaign promises, his campaign promise to cut taxes and his budget this year is adding new taxes.

He had a campaign promise to advocate for school choice, in his budget this year, he is actually cutting school choice measures across the commonwealth. In his campaign, he said now is not the time to enter into the regional greenhouse gas initiative. When in fact, his administration is appealing the decision to ensure that we stay in this initiative, which is essentially a carbon tax, an energy tax on all consumers in Pennsylvania. It’s concerning to me that the governor’s memory has lapsed to the point where he’s not going to be remembering his campaign promises.

But over the course of the next few months, we will make sure that he does remember them and hopefully we can get some of these initiatives done.”