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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Tony Dastra is the Green Party Candidate for Pennsylvania Governor

 


If you're a PA voter and have been thinking you'd have no better option in the governor's race than Josh Shapiro, take heart. There's now a Green Party nominee. And if you were thinking you have to vote Democratic to keep someone even worse from getting in, Break the Duopoly's website is now up and running, making it easy to get matched with a right-leaning PA voter to withdraw your votes from both capitalist parties at the same time, leaving the margin unaltered. Here's the announcement of Tony Dastra's candidacy: 


Tony Dastra of Lancaster is the Green Party Candidate for Pennsylvania Governor of Pennsylvania. On March 8, the 35 elected delegates to the GPPA State Committee endorsed Dastra’s campaign.
 
In requesting the endorsement, Tony Dastra told the delegates from 12 counties, “Today, with your support, I am planting myself. I am committing to be on this ride, to help get the blood flowing and to grow unorganized areas of our Commonwealth into organized ones. I will seed new Green Party organized counties by recruiting more delegates to fill our rolls.”
 
Dastra now says, “I am committed to growing my local Green Party of Lancaster County. I am committing to the Green Party’s Four Pillars and Ten Key Values. In fact, as it relates to our values, I am particularly upset recently because Scouting America is flat out REMOVING their Citizenship in Society Merit Badge. The more I think about my upbringing being an Eagle Scout, I had a lot of American history poured into me. The Green Party often reminds me of the newly formed Republican Party of 1858. Back then, abolitionists, like U.S. Representative Thaddeus Stevens (Republican of Lancaster County) who drafted the 14th Amendment, were called radical. I have hope in the Green Party in this moment of history for that reason. Though I do not have a crystal ball, I am putting all my chips on Green.”
 
Tony Dastra was the Green Party candidate for Mayor of Lancaster City in 2025. He is a vigorous campaigner and plans to visit the 10 largest cities in PA and a rural community in all 11 PennDOT Districts. Dastra says that his campaign will not accept donations from corporations or corporate PACs. Interested individuals should get involved with the Green Party of Pennsylvania and follow listed social media for campaign updates.
 
For more information, please contact:
Email,  dastraforpa@gmail.com
 
 
To register at Break the duopoly go to https://www.breaktheduopoly.com/. To learn more about the Vote Pact concept go to https://votepact.org/.

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