Day 3: Our Endorsed Candidates
As we wrote in our previous e-bulletins, you can get involved in the upcoming elections by helping to register others to vote (and to make sure you’re registered) . You can donate to our Committee on Political Education (COPE) fund to fund endorsements ;the COPE Fund is kept separate from dues.
Today, we would like you to consider working directly on behalf of candidates who have shown that they support strong public institutions, education (including higher education), labor unions and workers. Here are the four candidates TAUP’s COPE has endorsed after extensive interviews, all of them candidates for Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives. Clicking on their names will take you to opportunities to assist their campaigns:
Andrew Dixon PA-29 (Warminster)
Joe Hohenstein PA-177 (Northeast Philadelphia)
Malcolm Kenyatta PA-181 (North-central Philadelphia; Temple’s district)
Chris Rabb PA-200 (Northwest Philadelphia)
Joe Hohenstein, an immigration lawyer who taught part-time for Temple’s Beasley School of Law, is in a tight race. His full-throated defense of labor rights can be seen in this recently published op-ed. We want to bring to your attention an upcoming event where you can write postcards on his behalf in Center City, October 3, 4:30-6:30. RSVP for address: protectelectphilly@gmail.com.
We also want to let you know about endorsements in important state-wide and Philadelphia-area contests made by AFT-Pennsylvania, our state affiliate:
Bob Casey, U. S. Senate
Tom Wolf, Governor
Scott Wallace, US House District 1 (Bucks)
Note: AFT-sponsored Meet and Greet, 10/7 6:30 p.m. 147 Woodbourne Road Langhorne, PA; RSVP: gen@scottwallacepa.com
Madeleine Dean, US House District 4 (Montgomery and Berks)
Mary Gay Scanlon, US House District 5 (Delaware and Philadelphia)
Tina Davis, PA Senate 6 (Bucks)
Steve Santarsiero, PA Senate 10 (Bucks)
Maria Collett, PA Senate 12 (Montgomery and Bucks)
Helen Tai ,PA House 178 (Bucks)
We hope that you will choose to help at least one of these TAUP-endorsed and AFTPA-endorsed candidates! We will also be opening a link on our website where we will list ways for you to get involved.
There are only 46 days left till November 6th. Register. . . Donate . . . Volunteer! Our collective futures depend upon it!