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we are also focused on Main
Street, and I look forward to
continuing that good work.”
The work he references is
the Pennsylvania 30 Day Fund,
a nonprofit he started in the
early days of the pandemic.

Since then, the effort has given
hundreds of loans to small
businesses. The combination of a
self-starting work ethic, state-
wide thinking and assistance
for small businesses represents
Bartos’ pitch to voters. He
believes that government
power has shifted too many
advantages to the largest
companies at the expense of
small business owners. In this
work with the 30 Day Fund,
Bartos heard tale after tale of
the “crushing burden that’s
been put on the smallest of
our employers living out their
hopes and dreams.”
“And I thought, as I had
more and more of these
conversations, ‘This is a fight
that can’t stop with the end of
the pandemic,’” Bartos said.

His primary goals as a
senator, he said, would be to
fight for his oft-invoked Main
continuing the Trump admin-
istration’s policies regarding
Israel and the Middle
East, citing the decisions to
withdraw from the Iran deal,
to recognize Israeli sovereignty
over the Golan Heights and
to move the U.S. Embassy to
Jerusalem. experience with electoral
politics. In 2018, he emerged from
a crowded primary as the
GOP candidate for lieutenant
governor. Bartos and his
gubernatorial running mate,
Scott Wagner, were defeated
by Gov. Tom Wolf and Lt.

And I thought, as I had more and more of these conversations,
‘This is a fight that can’t stop with the end of the pandemic.’”
JEFF BARTOS
Street, whether by “beating
China” or “restoring the
American dream.” Prior to
the pandemic, the American
economy was the best it’s
been in our lifetime, he said,
and he’d like to continue the
policies that led to that success.

Bartos is also interested in
“Those policies all benefited
not only the United States,
but many, many of our allies
around the world, and I’ll be
making the case that those
policies had us on the right
track prior to the pandemic,”
Bartos said.

This isn’t Bartos’ first
Vaccinated make 2020 almost
pleasurable. Happy
New Year to them
and to all my
friends.” Gov. John Fetterman in the
general election, but the
experience taught him about
appealing to voters across the
state. It also helped him find a
friend in Fetterman. a poten-
tial opponent in the general
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Bartos about the Tree of Life
of shooting before it had been
made public. Today, the two
remain close.

Bartos, a Lower Merion
resident and father of two
college-age daughters, is from
Reading. His wife, Sheryl, is
from Allentown.

Bartos is a graduate of Emory
University and the University
of Virginia Law School, and
worked at
Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads
LLP for several years after
graduation. In 2001, he moved to Toll
Brothers, where he’d remain
until 2010, rising to division
president. From 2010-2014, he
was the CEO of Mark Group,
an energy efficiency business.

He is president of ESB
Holdings, a real estate develop-
ment company. l
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