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Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano said during a radio interview in March that he’d cut spending by nearly half if elected. The Pennsylvania State Education Association calls this an attack on public education and has held a series of events this week to highlight the issue.
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Educators fear a Florida-like proposed ban on elementary school instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation will teach children that being part of the LGBTQ community is wrong.
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A Canadian university is making public Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano's 2013 doctoral thesis about American World War I hero Sgt. Alvin York. The online posting includes six pages of corrections Mastriano added a year ago that in some cases don't appear to correct anything. Rival researchers have long criticized Mastriano's investigation into York as plagued by factual errors, amateurish archaeology and sloppy writing.
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In a nearly two-hour address at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre Township, the former president sprinkled in endorsements for Republican candidates, including Doug Mastriano and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidates for Pennsylvania governor and U.S. Senate.
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A major candidate’s campaign finance report often serves as a window into the advisors they trust, and the people and organizations they’re leaning on to make their bid successful. Doug Mastriano’s is no different — though it has little in common with most statewide campaigns in Pennsylvania.
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With midterms approaching and the commonwealth’s open U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races remaining highly competitive, national Republicans and Democrats view Pennsylvania as one of the country’s most important battlegrounds.
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Many suburban Republicans say they are having a hard time bringing themselves to vote for their party’s nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano. Several voters and political operatives doing on-the-ground outreach say his stance on abortion is a big reason why.
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As attorney general, Josh Shapiro went to court repeatedly to defend Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration against legal challenges to his pandemic-era mandates and shutdowns. Now, as he’s running to succeed Wolf as governor, Shapiro says he is against some of the same COVID-19 containment measures that his fellow Democrat used to help manage the nation’s worst pandemic in over a century.
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Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano posed in a Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College, three years before he retired from the U.S. Army.
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro wants to continue to increase public education funding in Pennsylvania, while his opponent, Republican Doug Mastriano, wants to dramatically cut it.