PA-GOV: Treasurer Garrity (R) bought Israel Bonds. Candidate Garrity then campaigned at the firm's gala.
HARRISBURG — Ethics experts are raising concerns after state Treasurer Stacy Garrity campaigned at a gala hosted by a firm from which she purchased millions in bonds in her official state role.
Garrity has invested $45 million in taxpayer money into Israel Bonds since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, a move that overrode earlier concerns within the Treasury that the bonds could be a risky investment. In gratitude, the firm behind the bonds invited her, in her capacity as state treasurer alongside an unknown number of other Pennsylvania investors, to a thank-you event.
Garrity attended — but she paid for her ticket, costing $450, out of her campaign funds.
“Treasurer Garrity believed that the Israel Bonds event crossed the line beyond her official capacity as Treasurer and into the political, so she decided to pay for her ticket from her campaign funds because she did not believe taxpayer dollars should be used for those purposes,” campaign spokesperson Matt Beynon told Access Harrisburg.
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/03/stacy-garrity-treasurer-governor-election-israel-bonds-ethics-elections/