Rebecca MacTaggart
Community engagement specialist, Community Living and Support Services (CLASS) · South Strabane Township
The gist
- Supports HB 2728, which would bar corporations from election spending, and wants it to cover out-of-state firms.
- Supports raising the $7.25 minimum wage along with state reimbursement rates for home care agencies.
- Calls for recruiting renewable, battery and geothermal industries to build alongside existing energy employers.
- Calls for faster progress on adequacy-based state school funding, saying small and rural districts are still waiting.
- Opposes cuts to Head Start and early childhood education programs.
- Warns that federal Medicaid cuts will affect over 300,000 Pennsylvanians and strain hospitals and providers.
- Supports letting communities reject or delay developments such as data centers over health or well-being concerns.
- Calls for raising the $500-a-day cap on zoning-violation fines under the Municipalities Planning Code.
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Supports HB 2728, which would bar corporations from election spending, and wants it to cover out-of-state firms.
Issues — Rebecca MacTaggart for PACampaign website · Rebecca MacTaggart for PA · Campaign Finance · rebeccamactaggart.com
“Rebecca supports HB 2728, and wants it expanded to reach corporations chartered in other states too.”
People First. Money Out — Rebecca MacTaggart for PACampaign website · Rebecca MacTaggart for PA · rebeccamactaggart.com
“I want to be sure our bill applies to corporations chartered in other states”
Supports raising the $7.25 minimum wage along with state reimbursement rates for home care agencies.
Issues — Rebecca MacTaggart for PACampaign website · Rebecca MacTaggart for PA · Raising the Minimum Wage … Raising the Minimum Wage · rebeccamactaggart.com
“Ours has been stuck at $7.25 for nearly 2 decades. A raise is overdue. … Fix wages but not reimbursement rates, and families still lose.”
Calls for recruiting renewable, battery and geothermal industries to build alongside existing energy employers.
Issues — Rebecca MacTaggart for PACampaign website · Rebecca MacTaggart for PA · Economy, Jobs and Wages … Economy, Jobs and Wages · rebeccamactaggart.com
“We must instead entice these industries and opportunities to come here and build in harmony with our existing employers. … Geothermal uses many of the same skills our energy crews already have.”
Calls for faster progress on adequacy-based state school funding, saying small and rural districts are still waiting.
Issues — Rebecca MacTaggart for PACampaign website · Rebecca MacTaggart for PA · Giving Our Best to Every Student · rebeccamactaggart.com
“But progress has been slow, and small and rural communities are still waiting.”
MacTaggart Announces Bid In 48th Legislative DistrictNews coverage · WJPA 95.3 FM/1450 AM · Feb 17, 2026 · wjpa.com
“a real and lasting plan for school funding”
Opposes cuts to Head Start and early childhood education programs.
Issues — Rebecca MacTaggart for PACampaign website · Rebecca MacTaggart for PA · Defending Blueprints & Head Start · rebeccamactaggart.com
“Count on Rebecca MacTaggart to keep defending Head Start every time anyone tries to cut it.”
Warns that federal Medicaid cuts will affect over 300,000 Pennsylvanians and strain hospitals and providers.
Issues — Rebecca MacTaggart for PACampaign website · Rebecca MacTaggart for PA · A Healthcare System that Works · rebeccamactaggart.com
“cuts to Medicaid are estimated to affect more than 300,000 Pennsylvanians and their providers”
Supports letting communities reject or delay developments such as data centers over health or well-being concerns.
Issues — Rebecca MacTaggart for PACampaign website · Rebecca MacTaggart for PA · Communities in Control · rebeccamactaggart.com
“the community deserves to reject or delay that development until the community is satisfied.”
Calls for raising the $500-a-day cap on zoning-violation fines under the Municipalities Planning Code.
Issues — Rebecca MacTaggart for PACampaign website · Rebecca MacTaggart for PA · Communities in Control · rebeccamactaggart.com
“Under the Municipalities Planning Code, the maximum fine for a zoning violation is $500 a day. … That has to change.”