Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro allegedly used taxpayer money to conduct a training event for Democrat-friendly social media influencers. The ‘Democracy Summer Camp’ held on July 25 was designed to educate participants on encouraging their likely liberal audiences to vote and recognizing so-called misinformation online.
The State of Pennsylvania reportedly funded this day-long event, inviting 43 influencers. None of those invited appear to have had Republican sympathies, with approximately 70 percent having openly liberal social media profiles.
The remainder of the influencers came from demographics historically supportive of the Democratic Party, such as college students and African Americans.
Critics, including Pennsylvania State Representative Seth Grove, expressed concern over the event’s partisan nature: “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,” he argued.
“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.”
Governor Shapiro, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) veteran once considered a front-runner for Kamala Harris’s vice presidential pick, seems to be copying a tactic used by the Biden-Harris regime in recent years by using social media influencers to disseminate Democratic messaging.
This has backfired on the Biden-Harris regime several times, however, including when a transgender influencer named Rose Montoya exposed his faux “breasts” at the White House during a Pride party last year.
The Democrats and allied super PACs have paid over a million dollars to social media influencers to support Democrat campaigns, including President Joe Biden’s, before he dropped out of the presidential race.
