Thread by @RepTarik

I don’t often talk about my faith, but in the wake of the despicable attempt on Governor Shapiro’s family over Passover, I wanted to share a personal story about @GovernorShapiro

Governor Shapiro graciously hosts an annual Iftar dinner at his residence. This year, after breaking bread, he shared that he carries a sense of awe because the room we pray in each year at his residence is the same room that his son had his bar-mitzvah.

That celebration of our various faiths, he said, was exactly what William Penn had in mind when he envisioned the commonwealth.

Governor Shapiro has been there for the Muslim community when we’ve reached out to him, whether it was signing my bill to increase security grants for nonprofits at risk for crimes like mosques, or awarding the largest grant to a Muslim community center for $5 million.

So it’s even more painful to hear that this friend who was openly celebrating his faith at a Passover Seder dinner was the target of a man who wanted to viciously attack our Governor with a hammer and burn down his home while he and his family slept just hours later.

And that room where we observed our religious events was one of the rooms where the attacker threw a Molotov cocktail and nearly burned it to the ground.

Praying for the governor and his family in the wake of this egregious attack, and inspired by the Governor’s resolve to double his efforts to make a better and more just society here in the Commonwealth. Just what William Penn had in mind.