articleThe Brief Stacy Garrity, Pennsylvania's state treasurer, announced Monday that she would seek the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Stacy Garrity, Pennsylvania’s two-term elected state treasurer, said Monday that she will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Since her 2020 upset victory of the incumbent Democratic treasurer, Garrity has been an avid campaigner, speaking at numerous Trump rallies. By all accounts, Shapiro and Garrity have had a professional working relationship and avoided partisan squabbling over official matters. During her time as treasurer, Pennsylvania has run up big surpluses, buoyed by federal COVID-19 aid and inflation-juiced tax collections.