Greg Rothman

Greg Rothman (born December 10, 1966) is an American politician. A Republican, he has been a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 2015, elected from the 87th district, which covers parts of Cumberland County.

Greg Rothman
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
from the 87th district
Assumed office
August 25, 2015[1]
Preceded byGlen Grell
Personal details
BornDecember 10, 1966 (age 55)
Political partyRepublican
Residence(s)Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst

Early life, education, and real estate career

Rothman was born December 10, 1968, in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.[2] He graduated from Cumberland Valley High School in 1985 and received a B.S. in political science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1989.[2]

Rothman spent several decades in the real estate business.[3] He was a real estate agent and then CEO of RSR Realtors, a real estate company based in Lemoyne.[4] Rothman was also part owner of the Harrisburg Senators minor league baseball team.[5] He received an M.S. in real estate from Johns Hopkins University in 2005.[2] He was also in the Marine Corps Reserves.[4]

Political career

Rothman was chair of the Bush-Cheney 2004 re-election campaign in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.[4] He was a volunteer aide on the Rick Santorum's 2012 presidential campaign, often appearing in Santorum's entourage.[4][5][6]

In August 2015, Rothman was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a special election to fill a vacancy in the 87th House district.[3] The vacancy arose from the resignation of Glen Grell, who stepped down to become executive director of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System.[4] The district includes Camp Hill, East Pennsboro Township, and Hampden Township, as well as a part of Silver Spring Township.[3] Rothman lives in Silver Spring Township.[3] He was reelected in 2016,[3] 2018,[3] and 2020.[7]

In 2016, Rothman was the chair of the Cumberland County Republican Party.[8] He supported Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign,[9] and was on Trump's team at the 2016 Republican National Convention arranging convention operations.[10] He defended Republican Senator Pat Toomey from intra-party critics who asserted that Toomey was insufficiently pro-Trump.[8]

In 2020, Rothman was chair of the House Republican Campaign Committee, leading the campaign efforts for the Pennsylvania House Republicans.[11][12][13]

In 2019, Rothman sponsored legislation to shorten the time period for evictions in Pennsylvania. The bill was supported by landlords' organizations and opposed by tenant and low-income housing advocacy organizations.[14] He supports a reduction in Pennsylvania's corporate net income tax and abolition of the state's inheritance tax.[3] Rothman was the leading supporter of legislation, signed into law in 2019, that established 21 as the minimum age to purchase tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, except for active-duty military personnel and honorably discharged veterans, for which the minimum age remained 18.[3] The exemption was criticized by tobacco control groups and defended by Rothman.[15]

Rothman currently sits on the Appropriations, Insurance, Liquor Control, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Aviation committees.[16]

References
  1. "SESSION OF 2015 - 199TH OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - No. 61" (PDF). Legislative Journal. Pennsylvania House of Representatives. 2015-08-25.
  2. Historical Biographies: Greg Rothman, Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
  3. Jan Murphy, Rep. Greg Rothman to seek re-election to the state House of Representatives, PennLive (November 29, 2019).
  4. Steve Marroni, 'I did something stupid': GOP candidate in Pa. House race on decades-old charge, PennLive (July 8, 2015).
  5. Robert J. Vickers, Election 2012: Sticking close to Rick Santorum is Senators co-owner and Harrisburg-area Realtor Greg Rothman, PennLive (April 8, 2012).
  6. Samuel P. Jacobs, Now a front-runner, Santorum is still winging it, Reuters (February 23, 2012).
  7. Jana Benscoter, Rep. Greg Rothman earns third term in Pa.’s 87th House District, PennLive (November 5, 2020).
  8. Marc Levy, Toomey tries to use disagreements with Trump to advantage, Associated Press (September 26, 2016).
  9. Eric Veronikis, Trump supporters celebrate: 'I hope he really does stick to building the wall', PennLive (November 9, 2016).
  10. Jonathan Tamari, Meet Pa.'s David Urban, Trump tactician and 'traffic controller' at RNC, Philadelphia Inqirer (July 19, 2016).
  11. Mark Scolforo, Mail voting, new machines feature in Pennsylvania primary, Associated Press (May 18, 2020).
  12. Mark Scolforo, Lawmakers take record before voters under new election rules, Associated Press (September 12, 2020).
  13. Stephen Caruso, GOP targets House Democrats in Trump districts using viral video of Philly lawmaker harassing anti-abortion protesters, Pennsylvania Capital-Star (May 29, 2020).
  14. Kate Giammarise, Bill would shorten eviction process in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (May 14, 2019).
  15. Katie Meyer, Pennsylvania restricted tobacco sales. Some tobacco control groups are still uneasy., WHYY (December 3, 2019).
  16. "Representative Greg Rothman". The official website for the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
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