2022 PA Senate race: on Government Reform
Carla Sands:
Signed Term Limits on Congress Pledge
Sands signed the U.S. Term Limits pledge on Congress--ensuring this seat in the United States Senate belongs to the people of Pennsylvania, not to Washington, D.C. insiders or special interest groups. Sands issued the following statement upon signing
the Pledge: "Self-serving career politicians are what's wrong with Washington today. I'm running to go to Washington, do a good job, and leave having done the best possible work for Pennsylvanians."
Source: US Term Limits endorsement on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Sep 14, 2021
David McCormick:
Supports Voter ID & absentee ballot signature verification
As a combat veteran, Dave fought for every American's sacred right to vote. He will continue fighting for the integrity of every election to ensure that no Pennsylvanian will ever have to doubt our election system, or that their vote counted.
As a Senator, Dave will work to ensure Pennsylvania has Voter ID requirements, absentee ballot signature verification, and that election observers have the right to meaningfully observe elections to ensure they are free and fair.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign web DaveMcCormickPA.com
May 22, 2022
David McCormick:
Fully supports term limits; pledges no more than two terms
Special interests and career politicians are what's wrong with Washington. Dave is a political outsider who doesn't owe anyone other than the voters of Pennsylvania anything.
Dave fully supports term limits and has pledged to serve no more than two terms as a U.S. Senator and has signed the U.S. Term Limits Pledge.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign web DaveMcCormickPA.com
May 22, 2022
Everett Stern:
After whistleblower at HBSC, unable to find another job
In 2010-2011, in his work for HSBC bank, Stern] immediately found a series of deeply concerning transactions [concerning funding terrorist groups]. Every time Stern brought one of these discoveries to his bosses, they rolled their eyes at him, if not
worse. The U.S. Senate decided to target the company for a yearlong investigation into global money-laundering. The bank itself, in response to the Senate investigation, acknowledged that it had "sometimes failed to meet the standards that regulators
and customers expect." In 2012, Stern heard that the Justice Department was about to announce a settlement. Since he'd left HSBC the year before, he'd had a rough time. Going public with his allegations had left him emotionally and financially
devastated. He'd been unable to find a job, and at one point even applied for welfare. But now that the feds were finally about to drop the hammer on HSBC, he figured he'd have the satisfaction of knowing that his sacrifice had been worthwhile.
Source: Rolling Stone magazine on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Feb 14, 2013
Jeff Bartos:
Election not stolen; Trump not to blame for insurrection
Bartos does not suggest that the election was stolen from Trump--Trump maintains baselessly that it was--and has said he believes Trump should have ended his efforts to overturn the outcome several weeks after the election when federal courts were
rejecting his legal challenges.But Bartos does not assign blame to Trump for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, unlike Toomey, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of suburban Philadelphia and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
Source: Associated Press on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Mar 8, 2021
Jeff Bartos:
For voter ID, end "no excuse" absentee ballots
Bartos is also joining a Republican movement to tighten voting laws in the wake of Trump's loss to Biden. Bartos said that he supports voter ID laws and ending "no excuse" absentee ballots, a law that
Pennsylvania passed in 2019 with near-universal support from Republican lawmakers before Trump began attacking mail-in voting, baselessly, as being rife with fraud.
Source: Associated Press on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Mar 8, 2021
Jeff Bartos:
Signed U.S. Term Limits pledge
U.S. Term Limits praises Jeff Bartos, for signing the pledge for an amendment to term limit Congress. It reads, "I pledge that as a member of Congress, I will cosponsor and vote for the U.S. Term Limits amendment of three (3) House terms and two (2)
Senate terms and no longer limit." The U.S. Term Limits constitutional amendment has been introduced in both the U.S. Senate by Senator Ted Cruz and his colleagues (SJR3) and the U.S. House by Representative Ralph Norman (HJR12).
Source: TermLimits.com blog on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Mar 7, 2021
Jeff Bartos:
Voting rights bill attempt by radical left to seize power
[On election reform]: "S.1 was a laughable attempt by beltway liberals to put Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and AOC in charge of Pennsylvania's elections," said
Republican Jeff Bartos. "S.1 was just the latest attempt by the radical left to seize more power. I'm glad it died a very public death in the Senate--our nation is better for it."
Source: Delaware Valley Journal on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Jun 30, 2021
Jeff Bartos:
Investigate 2020 election, particularly mail-in ballots
Some of Bartos' primary opponents are vocal election deniers. Bartos acknowledged that Joe Biden won Pennsylvania and the presidency and said he, his wife, and two daughters voted by mail, but Bartos also favors an investigation of the
2020 election, especially how mail ballots were used. Such calls have increasingly become a litmus test in GOP primaries in Pennsylvania and elsewhere as Trump has continued his lies of a stolen election.
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Aug 4, 2021
Jeff Bartos:
Senseless regulations drive businesses to other countries
- Cutting burdensome regulations will cut costs
- The fewer senseless regulations we have, the fewer bureaucrats we will need to administer them.
- Create an environment where businesses choose to do business in
Pennsylvania and America.
- Instead of creating an environment for American businesses to thrive, national Democrats seem hell-bent on driving businesses to other countries.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website JeffBartos.com
Jul 19, 2021
John Fetterman:
Mocked Texas AG on voter fraud accusations
He repeatedly mocked on Twitter and on television a promise Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, made two days after the November election to pay up to $1 million for evidence of voter fraud.
Fetterman offered up three Trump supporters from Pennsylvania accused of attempting to vote for dead relatives and demanded that Patrick, whom he kept calling "my dude," pay the state $3 million.
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Jan 8, 2021
Kathy Barnette:
2020: Something horribly wrong took place in this election
Barnette echoes and has sometimes supported Trump's election fiction. She brought supporters with her to Washington for the Jan. 6 Trump rally that turned into a bloody attack on the Capitol. "Something horribly wrong took
place in this election," she told a conservative podcaster days before the Capitol riot. "You might as well not run for dogcatcher in my county."
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Jul 26, 2021
Malcolm Kenyatta:
Opposed law making voting process less accessible
Kenyatta has shamed Republican lawmakers for backing legislation that he says will "intimate" people from exercising their right to vote. "This actually should not be a contentious issue," Kenyatta said. "It should be a bipartisan issue to allow every
Pennsylvanian to have access to their fundamental right to vote. But what this amendment does is make the process inaccessible for Pennsylvanians. And unfortunately, it has been driven by national politics."
Source: Pink News (LGBT UK) on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Sep 7, 2020
Mehmet Oz:
Government that can give you everything can take it all away
I'll tell you one thing for sure, any government that's large enough to give you everything is powerful enough to take it all away. So I don't want that. I want liberty and freedom and that to me means limited government.
We can do it better than folks very far away from us who don't know our local problems. The more we can be local, the more we can trust the people in our communities, the better off we are.
Source: FOX News Hannity on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Nov 30, 2021
Pat Toomey:
I think Trump committed impeachable offenses
TOOMEY: So, I think the president did commit impeachable offenses. There's little doubt in my mind about that. We're literally less than one week to go at that point. I'm also not at all clear
that it's constitutionally permissible to impeach someone after they have left office. So, there may not be a viable impeachment route at this point.
Source: CNN State of the Union on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Jan 10, 2021
Pat Toomey:
Not clear if impeachment is valid after leaving office
[On Trump's second impeachment]: One, it's not clear the Constitution permits impeachment. conviction and prohibition against ever serving again, which is a separate vote, that that's permitted after a person has left office. Number two, I would
certainly hope, and I actually do believe, that the president has disqualified himself. I don't think he's a viable candidate for office ever again because of the outrageous behavior in the post-election period.
Source: Meet the Press interview on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Jan 10, 2021
Sean Parnell:
Filed lawsuit against no-excuse mail-in ballot system
Another issue likely in this campaign--Parnell's lawsuit claiming the state's no-excuse mail-in ballot system, used by over 2 million Pennsylvanians, is unconstitutional.Q: Do you think the election in Pennsylvania in 2020 was fair and an accurate
result with respect to all the races on the ballot?
Parnell: Well, I'll tell you. I don't. I'm not going to relitigate 2020. Like I told you before, I'm focused on 2022. But I will say regarding the lawsuit I filed on Act 77, I stand by it.
Source: KDKA Pittsburgh CBS on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
May 11, 2021
Sharif Street:
For same-day voter registration, early voting, vote by mail
Voting is a fundamental right and we should be making it easier for people to do, not harder. Sharif supports same-day voter registration, early voting, and vote by mail. He will fight against any scheme to
disenfranchise people of color, young people, seniors, first time voters, or anyone else who wants to participate in our Democracy.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website StreetForPA.com
Jun 27, 2022
Val Arkoosh:
Overturn Citizens United, won't take corporate PAC money
From gerrymandering to suppressive voting laws, politicians in Pennsylvania, states around the country and in Washington have been working to undermine confidence in U.S. elections and make it harder to vote, putting one of the most essential
American rights at risk. We must act to stop it. That's why Val supports federal legislation to protect the right to vote and make it easy for every Pennsylvanian to cast a ballot.
We must also rein in corporations' role in our elections, which for far too long has diminished the voice of real people in our politics. Val supports overturning
Citizens United, which has allowed for the unlimited flow of dark money into our political system. Val is also refusing to take money from corporate PACs in her campaign.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website ValArkoosh.com
Dec 19, 2021
Pat Toomey:
Bipartisan independent commission to investigate Jan. 6th
Sen. Toomey (R) did not vote on H.R. 3233, which would have created a bipartisan independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot and general security issues related to the incident.Upon request by Snopes/OnTheIssues, Sen. Toomey's staff
indicated that his vote would have been a "Yes." Contemporaneous statement provided to Snopes by spokesperson: "Senator Toomey has a family commitment he has to attend to today. Had he been in Washington, Senator Toomey would have voted in favor of the
motion to proceed to the January 6th commission legislation with the expectation that the Senate would consider, and Senator Toomey would have supported, an amendment that addresses Republican concerns about partisan staffing and the duration
of the commission."
If this vote had been registered, Toomey would have been the sixth GOP senator with a "perfect" score of +6 on the January 6th Scorecard.
Source: OnTheIssues.org interview on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
Jan 6, 2022
David McCormick:
January 6 was a dark chapter in American history
McCormick expressed regret over the 2021 attack at the U. S. Capitol. He said the attack marks "a dark chapter in American history" and "puts a highlight on the responsibility of leaders to be able to create a dialogue where people are understood."
He also said "I think [Trump] has some responsibility, a lot of responsibility for [the attack], and I think that this last dark chapter at the Capitol...history will look very unfavorably on that and all the people that were involved in that.
Source: Wikipedia on 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race
May 22, 2022
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