Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania Used Public Funds For Election Training Camp For Liberal Activist ‘Influencers’

The Democrats are the dirtiest politicians in the United States. They try to rig the elections in their favor. Josh Shapiro went as far as using taxpayer money to train far-left influencers to use them as tools for the party that wants to do away with the Constitution. This November, make sure you vote straight Republican ballot and do your part to save the Constitution and the United States.

Shapiro directed the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to pay thousands of dollars to train these influencers to get their audience to vote in the 2024 election. The DCNF obtained a list of 43 influencers the governor’s office invited to attend the publicly funded training and, upon review, none of the influencers favored Republicans and roughly 70% had an explicitly liberal social media presence. The other influencers, while being apolitical, represented areas where the voters consist of demographics that favor Democrats, such as college students and African Americans.

Shapiro told the mostly liberal crowd:

“We all need to get off the sidelines, get in the game, and fight for what we believe in. Stand up strong and proud for the values we hold dear.”

Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt instructed the attendees on voting laws. The governor’s director of digital partnerships, Gavin Lichtenstein, told the influencers that their followers would need information from them, including the location of drop boxes and voting deadlines.

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“Having the governor’s office use taxpayer funds to only have Democrat social media influencers … is very, very sketchy and was a waste of taxpayer dollars,” Pennsylvania State Rep. Seth Grove told the DCNF. “That was a cost to the taxpayers to do campaign work. I don’t believe for a second they had any interest in inviting Republicans … it was lopsided and targeted to Democratic influencers.”

One of the influencers selected to attend the event, Maggie McGregor, is the daughter of Democratic National Committee treasurer Virginia McGregor, records show.

“The election in the United States of America is about eight weeks from today and I am not sitting on the sidelines,” Maggie McGregor told her followers on Sept. 24, mirroring Shapiro’s language. “As you can see, I am endorsing Kamala Harris.”

McGregor then encouraged her audience to make a “voting plan” and try to change people’s minds about who they will support in the election.

McGregor did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

Also among attendees of the event were several liberal influencers with massive followings. Philadelphia-based comedian Alex Pearlman, for instance, has roughly 3 million followers across Instagram and TikTok and consistently posts videos attacking Republicans.

Many of Pearlman’s posts are critiques of conservatives. In a Wednesday post, he repeated the falsehood that former President Donald Trump plans to use the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 as a policy platform, claiming that Republicans would get rid of Medicaid and Social Security.

Pearlman has also encouraged his followers to ensure their voter registrations are up to date. 

Aaron Parnas, a pro-Ukraine influencer the Pennsylvania governor’s office invited, has over 800,000 followers on X and TikTok and works for the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party.