| Rob Bresnahan lied to Northeastern Pennsylvanians when he promised he would lower their costs. Now, local seniors are calling him out.
That includes his former teacher, who tells the Citizen’s Voice that “little Bobby Bresnahan… you know, he’s a millionaire. He doesn’t have to screw the common folk out of a decent life.”
Another local senior who spoke to the Citizen’s Voice “intends to vote a straight Democratic ticket in November” because of the cost-spiking policies backed by Bresnahan, including reckless tariffs and a needless war in Iran that has sent gas and diesel prices skyrocketing.
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Citizen’s Voice: Local senior citizens say affordability, cost of living is hurting them
By Stephen Mocarsky | October 2, 2026
- Every spending decision Sandy and Peter Ouellette make these days weighs on their minds, even making the 20-mile drive from their Pittston home to visit Sandy’s daughter.
- […] I was going to go last Friday, but I wasn’t really feeling it, and my husband said, ‘You know, if you drive to Harveys Lake and back, that’s probably $10 worth of gas,’” Sandy recalled.
- “How sad is that? I can’t even go and visit my daughter. Dollar signs, dollar signs, dollar signs everywhere,” she said.
- This past summer when temperatures climbed into the 90s, Sandy said, she was hesitant to run their two small air conditioners.
- “I taught little Bobby Bresnahan when he was in middle school. And you know, he’s a millionaire. He doesn’t have to screw the common folk out of a decent life,” Sandy said, referring to Bresnahan’s voting record.
- “You do have to vote because that’s basically the only thing we have left,” Peter said. “We are people who have spoken to our legislators on the local level through the federal level, and you feel like anything you say just falls on deaf ears.”
- James Bosha, like the Ouellettes, also is retired and points to political decisions he believes are making it hard for him to afford the basic necessities.
- “The tariff wars have to stop. That is the most antiquated solution to a trade deficit. I mean, that was debunked in the 1800s as a solution, and that drives the cost of everything up,” Bosha, 68, of Scranton, said.
- “Yesterday, I made my weekly run to the grocery store — $168 and change netted me about three bags of food, and those bag didn’t even qualify as heavy. And that’s just me. Having been a young parent of three at one time myself, my heart aches to imagine the strain of trying to feed even a middle-class family right now,” Bosha said.
- He intends to vote a straight Democratic ticket in November because the current administration’s policies are making his life harder, and a Republican majority Congress is supporting those policies.
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