Big turnout tonight! Five house candidates for PA-10 (including Great Slate member @SCJ4PA ) will be debatingpic.twitter.com/p9ZTYFxoyO
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Next up is Alan Howe, who forgoes introducing himself to just tear into incumbent Scott Perry, then Trumppic.twitter.com/dCkj6FhGho
Our hero @SCJ4PA introduces herself, spent her childhood shuttling between four homes each month (foster parents, grandparents, father, mom)pic.twitter.com/adyED0V4yc
“Imagine growing up at or below the poverty line, and then being the right hand man to the person controlling a multi-trillion dollar budget [at the OMB]”
Last up is George Scott, Army veteran and pastor. Citing Conor Lamb victory as a template for victorypic.twitter.com/zBjaGf4QHo
First question is on gun violence. Scott calls it a public safety issue; calls fo repeal of Dickey amendment (yes!), background checks, ban bump stocks and high capacity magazines, increase age limit, increase security at schools
Corbin-Johnson: time for a serious conversation about gun reform. Four points to propose: enforce state gun laws, mandate safety and storage training, strengthen background checks, close gun show loophole and (harder) universal background checks
Howe calls out NRA and fellow gun owners, also wants four measures: ban bump stocks, repeal Dickey, universal background checks, ban new sales of high capacity weapons
Hartman starts with “thoughts and prayers”. Really. Comes from family of gun owners, worked in Afghanistan where she packed heat. Demands universal background checks, unshackling CDC, raise age to 21, excited that corporate America is leading
Ding lost friends in high school to guns. Guns do not belong in schools. I’m an epidemiologist; tracking down this epidemic requires data we’ve been banned from collecting. Brings up, curiously, mental health
Howe (coming across as Ron Swanson’s angry younger brother) asked about social security. Talking about tiny effective payroll tax for the rich and congress people. Mark Wahlberg paid 8k last year in payroll tax
SJC - don’t believe in calling it an entitlement. People paid for it. SSoc enabled her grandma to raise her. Perry is trying to privatize it. Eliminate cap, small tax on capital gains
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