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York, Pa. — Halfway through our interview, accompaniment agent Scott Wagner leaves the room. He is off to grab article from his appointment actuality at the address of Penn Waste, Inc., the aggregation he founded 17 years ago and continues to administer over as president. “He’s actual enthusiastic,” Wagner’s attack administrator explains. One minute later, he is back, accretion a manila folder, a five-inch-thick binder, and a motivational assurance that reads “Align Your Expectations With Reality.”
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“This is one of my slogans,” Wagner says. “Align your expectations with reality. If you go from this authoritative environment,” he says, gesturing to the manila folder, which contains accompaniment regulations on waste-management companies about 1985, “to that” — he now gestures to the binder, which contains the present day waste-management regulations — “businesses are activity to move. What did we expect?”
To apprehend Wagner acquaint it, that’s because he’s not like added Pennsylvania politicians. Specifically, he’ll accept you apperceive he’s not like bounden governor Tom Wolf, whom he’s active to bound in 2018.
When Wagner says that Wolf, a Democrat, “grew up on the added ancillary of the railroad tracks,” he isn’t aloof speaking in clichés. Both Wolf and Wagner barrage from York County, in the south-central allotment of the state. York is the county’s ballast city, a banal apple whose above attack to allurement visitors is branch tours of potato-chip plants. During Apple War II, the York Plan showed factories how to about-face from peacetime to wartime production. It’s an automated city, amidst by farms like the one Wagner was aloft on. Wolf, meanwhile, hails from adjacent Mount Wolf, called afterwards his flush family, which acclimatized in the breadth in the 19th century.
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Class differences do not an acclamation make, and Wolf’s persona is added calm and quiet than to-the-manor-born. He was adopted in 2014, active a abiding attack adjoin Republican Tom Corbett, who fell casualty to his own arguable affairs for reforming the accompaniment lottery, liquor-sales system, and bread-and-butter process, and to a alternation of gaffes. Wolf kept his air-conditioned and sailed to a adequate win.
Wagner and Wolf accept sparred over added than aloof pedigrees. In 2015, Wagner led the allegation adjoin a $29 billion account that his political-action board said would “be afraid it to disturbing taxpayers.” A agent for Wolf attempt aback that, “Until [Wagner] has austere solutions . . . everything he says is aloof hyperbole.” Two years later, the accompaniment account ballooned to $32 billion. Wagner was one of few accompaniment legislators to vote adjoin it aback in June, while Wolf accustomed it admitting defective a plan to pay for it.
Fights amid Republicans and Democrats over budgets are annihilation new, but the stakes for this one go above brainy posturing. Two weeks ago, Standard and Poor’s downgraded Pennsylvania’s acclaim appraisement to A , fourth-worst in the country. That makes it added cher for the accompaniment to borrow, which, with a arrears in balance of $2 billion, bureau costs the accompaniment account by arising added debt aloof became a below adorable option. Last Thursday, as the account agitation raged, Wolf appear that he was “taking activity to administer our state’s finances.”
Wagner sees a abridgement of accountability everywhere.
“Three years into the job! I mean, appear on. Cut me a break,” Wagner says. “The accompaniment doesn’t allegation addition governor who walks about with his covering buttoned. We allegation somebody who understands what it’s like to assignment in the trenches.” His signature action as governor on this advanced would be to convention zero-based budgeting, in which anniversary bureau starts from blemish and justifies all of its costs. Accompaniment Democrats, meanwhile, accept pursued their own solution: a tax on shale drillers. That could aching advance in the state, which is home to the Marcellus Shale. “We’re bankrupt, and bodies aren’t accommodating to attending in the mirror,” Wagner says. It’s not absolutely accurate that the accompaniment is broke — it can still pay its bills, for now — but the adverse amid Wagner’s access and Wolf’s tax-and-spend impulses is bright enough.
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Wagner sees a abridgement of accountability everywhere. Politicians in Harrisburg can’t anticipate acid spending, he complains. The managers of the state’s Accessible Academy Employees’ Retirement Arrangement (PSERS) — the alimony armamentarium for agents and administrators — accept an anniversary allotment ambition of 7.5 percent, but couldn’t able 2 percent in 2016. PSERS is grossly underfunded, Wagner credibility out, and the band-aid he proposes is simple: “The bodies managing the money should be fired.” Yet breeding aerial allotment while blockage aural the constraints of a alimony armamentarium is hard, and low allotment are not a botheration different to PSERS: Hedge armamentarium Bridgewater Associates said in 2014 that added than 80 percent of accessible alimony funds could abort over the abutting three decades. In a accompaniment whose demographics trend gray, those are alarming words. Hiring new money managers won’t break the botheration on its own. Still, Wagner is appropriate to point out the looming crisis, and he offers a added aboveboard band-aid — putting new entrants in a defined-contribution plan — on his attack website.
Wagner understands that Pennsylvania faces added problems than a political bog in Harrisburg or a access of boundless regulation. “I accept a account addiction: I apprehend Forbes, Fortune, Businessweek, Barron’s,” he says. “We accept to brainwash bodies that we’re in a alteration world.” His alacrity to do aloof that in his home accompaniment is palpable. He says that “the acceptance advancing out of schools are misaligned with the needs of industry today,” and floats allotment schools and added vocational-technology programs as solutions. His is a acceptable access for Pennsylvania, area the collapse of the atramentous and animate industries has led politicians to affiance a acknowledgment to ancient canicule that is never coming.
His senses are analogously agog aback it comes to the opioid crisis, which has hit Pennsylvania hard. Wagner knew article was amiss afore the affliction was civic news, and started the York County Heroin Task Force in July 2014. Since then, it’s captivated over 100 town-hall meetings, and Wagner has formed with the commune attorney’s appointment and chided academy admiral who were lax on the issue. He’s apparent addiction and afterlife blast families acquisitive to be allotment of the state’s renewal. “We allegation bigger biologic education,” he says. “We allegation to be cogent our kids from kindergarten to twelfth grade, Drugs are bad, all-overs are bad, biologic dealers are bad.”
This is still a polarized state. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh attending askance at Admiral Trump, while affluence of red hats are still proudly beat in the all-inclusive amplitude amid those cities. Wagner has befuddled his lot in with the closing group, cogent an affection for the admiral and his behavior which isn’t artifice Wolf’s attention. Afterwards Trump’s ambiguity on the white-supremacist annihilation in Charlottesville, Wolf adumbrated that Wagner’s apathetic acknowledgment meant article dark, sinister. Wagner hit aback with a ablaze op-ed in Pennlive, autograph that “Neo-Nazis and white supremacists accept no abode in our society, and their account and behavior are so below the address of this country that the added they allocution the below anyone should pay absorption to them.” A anniversary ago, though, he flew to an accident in St. Louis with Steve Bannon, cogent reporters that the even ride fabricated him “500 percent added emboldened.”
It’s a catchy tightrope to airing — demography pains not to alienate Trump’s supporters while break himself from the bigotry abounding accessory with the admiral — but his almanac should help. His Pennlive article cites several initiatives he’s undertaken in Philadelphia’s atramentous community. Admitting Republicans never win the Burghal of Brotherly Adulation — Wagner, of course, assures me he will be the barring — he’s adherent an abnormal bulk of time to acquirements about the problems that affliction it, developing a accord with Tracey Fisher, an ex-convict and the architect of Gateway to Re-entry, a non-profit alignment which aims to anticipate incarceration and advice contempo inmates alteration aback into society. “My ambition is to argue the bodies in Philadelphia active in abjection to booty a adventitious on me,” Wagner says.
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His affair for allowance inmates reenter association is no bald talking point. On the action front, he has been a best of criminal-justice reform. Along with a Democratic aide from Philadelphia, Wagner co-sponsored a “clean slate” bill that would allowance the bent annal of non-violent abyss who advance a apple-pie almanac for ten years. “There are a lot of bodies out there who would adulation to move up the career ladder,” Wagner explains. “But there are a lot of companies that disqualify you aback you analysis the box.” That’s not his action at Penn Waste, area applicants with a bent almanac accept the adventitious to altercate it in their interviews. Wagner wants to accord adapted abyss a adventitious to get jobs elsewhere, too.
Late in our interview, Wagner gets a bit off track. “What if,” he muses, “we went one footfall deeper? What if we helped bodies on abundance get abilities training?” It’s a acute proposal, but it’s additionally adorning in what it says about his priorities. “There’s an befalling for a domino aftereffect here, to advice bodies bigger their lives,” he says. “That’s what I’ll be about aback I become governor.” With able polling numbers in the Republican primary — Wagner is outpacing his abutting adversary at a blow of 45–16 percent — and solid fundamentals adjoin the incumbent, it seems Wagner has accumbent his own expectations to reality.
Pennsylvania’s abutting gubernatorial chase ability abruptness a few people.
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— Theodore Kupfer is a Civic Review Convention William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism.
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