By Free Republic | Created at 2025-02-01 17:52:33 | Updated at 2025-02-01 20:45:16
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Pennsylvania gov rebuffs PETA's demands on Punxsutawney Phil: 'Come and take it'
Fox News ^ | 2/1/25 | Charles Creitz
Posted on 02/01/2025 9:51:01 AM PST by DallasBiff
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro hit back at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on Friday, after the activist group sent a letter to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club promising to send them a vegan "weather reveal cake" if they agreed to stop pulling Punxsutawney Phil out of his burrow for his Feb. 2 prognostication.
"Come and take it," Shapiro tweeted in response to a New York Post story on PETA's demand.
Manuel Bonder, a spokesman for Shapiro, told Fox News Digital the governor stands by his comments and said he will again make the trip to Gobbler's Knob in Jefferson County on Sunday to witness Phil's 138th meteorological prediction.
Shapiro has been on-hand for every Groundhog Day ceremony in Punxsutawney since taking office in 2023.
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Shapiro rebuffing part of the democrat radical base. Hate to say it but he is smart. Kamala rejected him because he's Jewish, and if he was picked that would have po'ed her pro-palestinian terrorist base.
Someone who will be a contender in the dems presidential race in 28.
Discuss it's saturday.
1 posted on 02/01/2025 9:51:01 AM PST by DallasBiff
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