But lawmakers did not end up touching skill games at all in this budget.

Correct.

That was despite that ruling coming down in, you know, it was kind of, somewhat of a surprise to me.

But yeah, this is a case that's been working its way up for a bit.

And it kind of serves as like the deus ex machina to the long skill game struggle that has befuddled legislators, mostly because the skill games and the folks who make them, the folks who operate them, have poured millions of dollars in the state politics.

They've hired dozens of lobbyists.

They put big checks in the campaign accounts.

But there is still like no long term solution for transit funding in the state.

It's developing so quickly, and just as soon as maybe lawmakers can get a handle on a few aspects of maybe how this industry, you know, impacts constituents, technology can change, and new ideas and concerns will come about because government seems slow, and like you're saying, can't seem to come to a consensus on how to approach this huge issue right now in our communities.

Part of it with data centers, too, is as both chambers passed this bill to get rid of that tax exemption, uh, there was a lobbying campaign by folks to block it.

Uh, for instance, multiple letters went out from, uh, an alliance of labor and business interests in Pittsburgh asking lawmakers there to avoid, uh, getting rid of the tax exemption or really passing any data center bills.

The, the wording they used was, "We're calling for a moratorium on data center legislation" [laughs] You know? Uh, and, and I think that that's the other thing is that as much as there is grassroots pressure on lawmakers to do something on data centers due to their concerns, which, you know, vetting that is a separate topic, there's also the counterbalance of businesses, like, you know, like building them.

Uh, developers like building them.

Labor unions, their workers get a lot of money for doing these projects.

There's a lot of, you know, interest in the, the speculation that data centers could lead to, you know, feeding AI, lead to a big blossoming of economic activity.

Mm-hmm.

People had to borrow money just to like make it through.

Yeah.

And look, voters go to the polls in November to decide the fate of about, you know, 80 percent of the lawmakers in the building, the entire statehouse, half the state Senate.

Nobody wants the albatross around their neck of an unfinished state budget and their local school district cursing out Harrisburg, their local nonprofit saying, the reason that we closed doors to women who've been abused is because we don't have state money.

With that said, though, the point I raised about balancing the budget or making it so the revenue covers expenses, let alone how to use that money, That's a conversation that's beguiled Harrisburg for a decade, if not longer, because it's hard.

It requires hard votes.

There's three things you can do effectively.

What's the latest on this particular bill and how does it factor into the budget?

What is Stacey Garrity saying she would do as governor? What are some of her top issues and her highlight reel? Like she's been state treasurer now for a few years.

Yeah.

So Stacey Garrity is a businesswoman from northeastern Pennsylvania, Bradford County, Susquehanna County.

Sorry, there is a Bradford PA, which is not in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

Yeah, that's that's us.

But yeah, she is from northeastern Pennsylvania.

Businesswoman works at a...

Where's it coming from? What's the vibe headed into both the primary and November?