NFIB official fights for small business
Kevin Shivers visits area to update Southern Chester County Chamber of Commerce members on efforts
KENNETT » Kevin Shivers remembers the exact time he realized Donald Trump could win the Presidential election.
He walked into a business in Tredyffrin and the owner showed him a bill increasing her health care premium.
“This means $21,000 to me,” the woman said holding up the invoice, adding in a whisper, “I’m voting for Trump.”
Such are the war stories of Shivers, Pennsylvania’s executive state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, or NFIB, an organization that lobbies government on behalf of business.
Shivers shared the organization’s views of the business climate with about 150 members of the Southern Chester County Chamber of Commerce on Thursday at the Mendenhall Inn.
Shivers said Chester County is a strong area for NFIB membership, and he credited the late chairman and co-founder of The Tri-M Group LLC, W. Thomas Musser — “Tom Musser is probably responsible for two-thirds of them” — he told the group of southern Chester County business people at the group’s annual fall luncheon.
Shivers said he has always been interested in politics and “NFIB gave me an opportunity” to lobby for business interests. Before joining the group, Shivers was deputy press secretary for Pennsylvania governors Tom Ridge and Mark Schweiker. He previously served as press secretary in the Pennsylvania Department of State and worked in the Penn-
“We’re very pleased with the rolling back the regulation wave in Washington.”
– Kevin Shivers, executive state director of the National Federation of Independent Business in Pennsylvania