Data center disgust played big role in state Senate flip
One day after voters unleashed a ballot-box thunderstorm that washed away four incumbent Republican senators, Brian Wrightson made it clear that data center disgust helped shape his victory over one of them. “I believe that data centers played as the biggest issue in northeastern Pennsylvania,” said Wrightson, a Democrat and IT worker for 40 years who defeated longtime Republican lawmaker Sen. Rosemary Brown of Monroe County. Wrightson didn’t pull punches when asked his position. “My preference would be that I never saw a data center in Pennsylvania,” Wrightson said in an ...
