Oct 3, 2026 · 28 min · 14 segments
Kailee Buller ## Program transcript: **Grant Reeher:** Welcome to the Campbell Conversations, I'm Grant Reeher. The program you're about to hear was intended to be a debate between two candidates…
Kailee BullerGuestGrant ReeherHostSo I want to pick up on that affordability theme that you just brought up because that has been, at least as far as I can tell, one of the main themes of your messaging more generally, that Mannion has made this affordability problem worse and not better.
What would you be advocating in that regard that would actually help? I'm gathering from what you just said that some tax relief would be part of that, expanded energy development, as you say, on all fronts.
But tell us a little bit more about how you would attack the affordability problem.
I laid all that out in April very transparently on my website, and now we're on the trail talking about it.
But number one, as the highest tax state in the nation, I'll never support a tax increase, period, full stop.
Number two, on the energy side of the House, I support fast-tracking state, local, and federal nuclear.
I support building the Constitution Pipeline, which Kathy Hochul and John Mannion have refused to do.
We could open up a lot of union jobs, and we could actually be drilling our own energy here.
and they have wind, they have solar, they have nuclear, they have hydro, and they are fracking and they are drilling, and we are buying 86% of our natural gas from Pennsylvania.
They're serving some larger political pet project, and we need to take a step back and look at other states, red or blue, who are doing this better than us.
Pennsylvania is one of the biggest states that we are losing migration to, not outward migration, Pennsylvania and Florida are two of the highest ones.
Democrat state, we have the wrong Democrats in who aren't thinking about all of us.
So I want to pick up on that affordability theme that you just brought up because that has been, at least as far as I can tell, one of the main themes of your messaging more generally, that Mannion has made this affordability problem worse and not better.
What would you be advocating in that regard that would actually help? I'm gathering from what you just said that some tax relief would be part of that, expanded energy development, as you say, on all fronts.
But tell us a little bit more about how you would attack the affordability problem.
I laid all that out in April very transparently on my website, and now we're on the trail talking about it.
But number one, as the highest tax state in the nation, I'll never support a tax increase, period, full stop.
Number two, on the energy side of the House, I support fast-tracking state, local, and federal nuclear.
I support building the Constitution Pipeline, which Kathy Hochul and John Mannion have refused to do.
We could open up a lot of union jobs, and we could actually be drilling our own energy here.
and they have wind, they have solar, they have nuclear, they have hydro, and they are fracking and they are drilling, and we are buying 86% of our natural gas from Pennsylvania.
They're serving some larger political pet project, and we need to take a step back and look at other states, red or blue, who are doing this better than us.
Pennsylvania is one of the biggest states that we are losing migration to, not outward migration, Pennsylvania and Florida are two of the highest ones.
Democrat state, we have the wrong Democrats in who aren't thinking about all of us.
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