(Jewish Group) PA governor race: Mastriano attacks Shapiro for going to Jewish day school [View all]
State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, attacked the state’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro, his Democratic rival, on Wednesday for going to Jewish day schools and sending his kids to one.
In a campaign speech streamed live on his Facebook page, Mastriano, a self-declared Christian nationalist, suggested that Shapiro cannot relate to ordinary voters because he grew up “in a privileged neighborhood” and went to “one of the most privileged schools in the nation as a young man.” He noted that Shapiro’s four children attend the same “privileged, exclusive, elite school,” said Shapiro therefore has “disdain for people like us.”
In separate remarks earlier in the day, Mastriano said that Shapiro grew up “in a wealthy, protected neighborhood.”
Shapiro grew up in Dresher, a community of about 5,000 people in Montgomery County, north of Philadelphia. He went to the Forman Hebrew Day School and Akiba Hebrew Academy, now known as Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy.
On Twitter, former Obama administration official Eric Columbus reacted to video of the remarks by saying: “This is an antisemitic dog whistle from Mastriano.”
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