State Representative Jim Prokopiak: “I Believe Everyone Is Entitled To […] Make Their Own Decisions About Their Body. We Know That’s Not The Case With Dave McCormick”

Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie: “The Fact That Dave McCormick Made Money Off Of That Investment While Thousands Died Truly Shows Where His Allegiance Lies”

PENNSYLVANIA — Yesterday in Bucks County, elected leaders and Pennsylvania voters called out David McCormick’s dangerous record of investing millions in the biggest fentanyl producer in China and celebrating the overturning of Roe v. Wade by calling it a “huge victory.”

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• The ‘Don’t Trust Dave Tour’ made a stop in Langhorne to remind voters that the Republican Senate candidate’s record is “out-of-touch” and bad for Pennsylvania families.

• Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick can’t be trusted, and his record is proof positive. That’s the case Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie and State Representative Jim Prokopiak made at a gathering of local Democrats outside the Langhorne Sheraton Tuesday where Dave McCormick was set to speak on a panel. 

• Prokopiak and Harvie condemned McCormick’s anti-choice rhetoric and attacked his involvement in funding fentanyl producers in China. Prokopiak spoke first about McCormick’s celebration of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision which took away the constitutional right to abortion. 

• “As someone who works every day to protect the rights that Pennsylvanians have, it pains me to see someone who’s asking to represent this commonwealth celebrate as access to abortion is being wrestled away,” Prokopiak said. 

• “I believe that everyone is entitled to chart their own path and to live their own life, and make their own decisions about their body,” Prokopiak said. “We know that’s not the case with Dave McCormick.” 

• […] Harvie challenged this with claims that McCormick was CEO of Bridgewater Associates when it held almost $2 million in stock in Humanwell Healthcare, China’s largest producer of fentanyl. 

• “We know in the very year that Mr. McCormick made those investments over 4,000 Pennsylvanians died of fentanyl overdoses,” Harvie said. “And seizures of fentanyl in Pennsylvania increased by over 346 percent.” 

• “There are hundreds of families across Bucks County, thousands across Pennsylvania, who are suffering every day from the impact of fentanyl, and the fact that Dave McCormick made money off of that investment while thousands died truly shows where his allegiance lies,” Harvie said.