Letter to the editor: Zama for governor

Dr. Nche Zama is the epitome of the American dream. As a young teenager, he legally migrated to America to attend college with $20 in his pocket. Through hard work, perseverance and the help of many guardian angels, Zama became a recognized heart and lung surgeon.

Now retired, Zama is running for governor of Pennsylvania. He wants to share the American dream with as many Pennsylvanians as he can. He’s upset to learn the extent of ZIP code disease in Pennsylvania K-12 education. He’s upset to learn Pennsylvania’s support of higher education is ranked 50th, the worst in America, by US News & World Report. He can’t believe rural Pennsylvania still doesn’t have decent broadband or cell service, if any. He’s outraged that the DEP’s Integrated Water Quality Report added 2,398 more stream miles to the state’s impaired list, suggesting that a third of all the state’s waterways are now considered polluted enough to harm wildlife, recreation or drinking water.

Like he did for heart surgery, Zama wants to build high-performance teams to restore excellence in Pennsylvania, in education, health care and government. I hope you will join me when I vote for Dr. Nche Zama on Election Day, May 17.

Connor Joyce

Elizabethtown