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Fall 2024 election information guide – The Tartan

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Members of the Carnegie Mellon community can find their polling place by checking their voter registration at pavoterservices.pa.gov. Arden Ryan/ News Editor

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5. Voters who live in the same district as Carnegie Mellon have the opportunity to vote for seven state and local positions. Here are the candidates on the ballot at the state and local levels.

Voters can find out which polling place they should vote at by checking their registration at pavoterservices.pa.gov.

U.S. Senate, Pa.

Senator Robert Casey (D) is running for re-election. His main challenger is Republican David McCormick.

Casey has been a senator since 2007. He recently sponsored legislation to seal the criminal records of people convicted of federal non-violent marijuana crimes and to expand eligibility for free school lunches. He sponsored a bill altering flood insurance policy, a bill funding community colleges to make it easier to receive an associate degree.

Casey also backed a bill establishing a tax credit for “Qualified Community College Bonds,” legislation that would favor community colleges within large cities and community college which primarily serves African Americans or Native Americans in various specific ways.

Casey is running on a range of issues including environmental conservation, increasing the corporate tax rate, bolstering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and trade protectionism. Casey has advocated financially punishing colleges which are determined to be “hostile environment[s]” and criticized Betsy DeVos’s contributions to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a campus-focused free speech advocacy organization.

McCormick was a hedge fund CEO and served as undersecretary in the Department of Commerce. He says that his main issue is lowering inflation. He says that abortion policy should be decided by the individual states (the status quo since the end of Roe v. Wade). He supports military funding for Ukraine but wants other NATO countries to contribute more of their budgets.

U.S. House of Representatives, District 12, Pa.

Representative Summer Lee (D–Pa.) is running for re-election. Her challenger is James Hayes (R).

Lee has been a representative since 2019. Lately, she’s sponsored a bill to require more railroad safety inspections, a housing regulation and price control bill, and a bill that would dramatically raise the minimum wage and raise taxes on high-income people. She’s also sponsored a bill that would make it illegal for states to do anything that makes voting more difficult and a bill removing the special family-owned business benefit from the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.

Hayes has worked in the business and finance industry, including for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. His issues include deregulating industry in Pennsylvania, supporting law enforcement, and aiding American allies abroad.

Pennsylvania Attorney General

The state attorney general is Pennsylvania’s head law enforcement officer — they are in charge of prosecution for the state. The term of Pennsylvania attorney general Michelle Henry expires this year.

Former Pa. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale and York County District Attorney Dave Sunday are running for this position. (Henry was appointed by former Attorney General Josh Shapiro when he was elected governor.)

According to Sunday’s website, his work as York County district attorney “resulted in a 30 percent decrease in crime during his first term; reductions in the prison population by almost 40 percent since its peak,” and lower recidivism rates. He also co-founded the York County Opioid Collaborative and worked on scam and elder abuse prevention.

DePasquale was formerly a state legislator and an auditor general. Brittany Crampsie, who is a media representative for the DePasquale campaign, told The Tartan that “Whether it’s a student loan company preying on students, insurance companies making health care unaffordable, or ghost gun dealers making cities more dangerous — Eugene is going to fight to give young people a fair, safe shot at making a great life in Pennsylvania.” She also said that DePasquale is still in student loan debt and knows about “student loan compan[ies] preying on students.”

Pennsylvania Auditor General

Auditor General Tim DeFoor  (R) is running for re-election. His main challenger is Pa. House Representative Malcolm Kenyatta (D–Pa.-181). According to DeFoor’s campaign manager, Alex Simmons, the auditor general “is the chief fiscal watchdog of Pennsylvania. His or her job is to ensure that your tax dollars are spent legally, effectively, and efficiently.”

Simmons said that one reason the auditor general is important to college students is that “student aid programs and housing programs are audited by the auditor general, and without strong oversight, we wouldn’t know how these programs are performing for you,” citing an audit of the Pennsylvania Housing and Finance Agency undertaken by DeFoor.

Simmons said that DeFoor is “the only person in this race who is actually an auditor” and that DeFoor “did not swear an oath to the Republican Party during his inauguration, he swore an oath to the Pennsylvania and U.S. Constitution.” He intends to be “an independent fiscal watchdog who ensures that the programs enacted by the General Assembly and Governor work properly” who will not “use the job as a stepping stone for higher office.”

His opponent, Kenyatta, is running because he wants “the underdog to become the watchdog for Pennsylvania’s working families,” according to his website. He plans on bringing the Bureau of School Audits back into the purview of the auditor general, a bureau that DeFoor moved to the Pennsylvania Department of Education. He also plans on starting a “Bureau of Labor and Worker Protections.”

Pennsylvania Treasurer

Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity (R) is running for re-election. Her main challenger is Erin McClelland (D). The treasurer manages and invests state savings, deals with abandoned property, and administers several savings programs and other programs.

Garrity’s website says she “is focused on transparency, cutting waste and fees, returning more than $4.5 billion in unclaimed property to its rightful owners, and making education affordable for Pennsylvanians” by expanding PA 529, a college and career savings program, decreasing the minimum deposit and contributions. She also expanded another savings program, PA ABLE, reducing fees. 

McClelland is a longtime substance abuse and mental health counselor. She says that she “will employ the contract oversight authority that the position has to exercise meticulous scrutiny and ensure compliance with all current trade regulations and laws and work diligently to keep the legislature informed of these standards so that nothing is missed” in order to restrict American imports from China. She also supports ending pension privatization.

Pa. State Senate District 43 and Pa. House of Representatives District 23

Senator Jay Costa (D) and Representative Dan Frankel (D), respectively, are running for these offices unopposed.

Costa has been the state senator for Pennsylvania’s 43rd district, containing Carnegie Mellon, since 1996. He has been Democratic floor leader (currently minority leader) since 2010.

Recently, Costa has sponsored a bill to restrict businesses and private clubs in selling or allowing tobacco products and a bill decreasing the amount of tax credit the state can give out to encourage mixed-use development.

He has also sponsored a bill to establish a unit and database to spy on people suspected of being in “hate groups,” and a bill giving the attorney general power to prosecute cases involving “ethnic intimidation” in any county criminal court, and a bill creating the category of “ethnic intimidation.”

Frankel has been our state representative since 1999. Some of the recent bills he has been primary sponsor of have been: a bill proposing further regulations of health insurers, a bill establishing a medical marijuana program, a bill amending smoking regulations, a bill protecting physicians in their contracts with their employers, and a bill establishing the category of “teledentistry.”

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O ex -presidente da Costa Rica, Arias, diz que os EUA revogaram o Visa – DW – 04/04/2025

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O ex -presidente da Costa Rica, Arias, diz que os EUA revogaram o Visa - DW - 04/04/2025

Antigo Costa Rica O presidente e o vencedor do Prêmio Nobel, Oscar Arias, disse na terça -feira que os Estados Unidos haviam revogado seu visto para entrar no país, apenas algumas semanas depois de criticar Presidente Donald Trump nas mídias sociais.

“Recebi um e -mail do governo dos EUA informando que eles suspenderam o visto que tenho no meu passaporte. A comunicação era muito concisa, ela não dá motivos. Alguém poderia ter conjecturas”, disse Arias a repórteres.

Chamando Trump de ‘Imperador Romano’

Em um post de mídia social no Facebook em fevereiro, o vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Paz de 1987 disse que Trump estava se comportando como “um imperador romano”.

“Nunca foi fácil para um país pequeno discordar do governo dos EUA, muito menos, quando seu presidente se comporta como um imperador romano, dizendo ao resto do mundo o que fazer”, escreveu ele.

“Nos meus governos, a Costa Rica nunca recebeu ordens de Washington, como se fôssemos uma ‘República da Banana’.”

Post de Arias, logo à frente de Visita do Secretário de Estado dos EUA Marco Rubio Para a Costa Rica em fevereiro, também rotulou os EUA de “uma nação em busca de um inimigo”.

Ex-presidente diz Costa Rica, cedendo para a pressão dos EUA

Arias levou para a mídia social que criticava o rendimento da administração do presidente Rodrigo Chaves à pressão dos EUA, como Washington procurou combater a influência da China na região, enquanto também aceitava deportados migrantes de países terceiros.

Outros legisladores da Costa Rica tiveram seus vistos nos EUA revogados que não se alinharam com o objetivo do presidente Chaves de reduzir a influência da China na região.

Agora com 84 anos, Arias foi o presidente da Costa Rica entre 1986 e 1990 e novamente entre 2006 e 2010.

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China perfura em Taiwan Estreito Risco para a Segurança da Região: EUA

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China perfura em Taiwan Estreito Risco para a Segurança da Região: EUA

Os Estados Unidos disseram que as atividades militares da China em torno de Taiwan só servem para "Exacerbate tensões" e "Coloque a segurança da região em risco."



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Os EUA buscam pena de morte para o CEO da UnitedHealthcare Killer – DW – 04/04/2025

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Os EUA buscam pena de morte para o CEO da UnitedHealthcare Killer - DW - 04/04/2025

A procuradora -geral dos EUA Pam Bondi disse que instruiu os promotores a procurar o pena de morte Para Luigi M., que é acusado de matar um CEO da American Health Care.

Ele enfrenta acusações separadas de assassinato federal e estadual depois As autoridades dizem que atirou e matou o CEO da UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson Fora de um hotel de Nova York em dezembro de 2024.

O “assassinato de Brian Thompson de Luigi M.-um homem inocente e pai de dois filhos pequenos-era um assassinato premeditado e de sangue frio que chocou a América”, disse Bondi em comunicado divulgado na terça-feira.

“Após uma consideração cuidadosa, instruí os promotores federais a buscar a pena de morte neste caso”.

Bondi chamou o assassinato de “um ato de violência política” que “pode ​​ter representado grave risco de morte para pessoas adicionais”.

Alguns críticos de seguros de saúde se uniram a Mangione como um símbolo de frustrações sobre os custos íngremes de saúde dos EUA e o poder das seguradoras de saúde para recusar pagamentos para alguns tratamentos.

Assassinato do CEO da saúde dos EUA expõe profunda frustração

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A defesa diz que é uma pena de pena de morte ‘bárbaro’

O advogado de M. Karen Friedman Agnifilo chamou a decisão de buscar a pena de morte “bárbaro”.

“Embora alegasse proteger contra o assassinato, o governo federal se move para cometer o assassinato pré-meditado e patrocinado pelo Estado de Luigi”, disse Friedman Agnifilo em comunicado.

M. se declarou inocente das acusações de assassinato no estado de Nova York como um ato de terrorismo e ofensas de armas.

Nova York não tem pena de morte por acusações estaduais e M. pode enfrentar a vida na prisão sem liberdade condicional se condenado nesse caso.

Ele ainda não foi obrigado a participar de um apelo às acusações federais.

US Revives Dealt Penalty em nível federal

Se M. for condenado no caso federal, o júri determinaria em uma fase separada do julgamento se recomenda a pena de morte.

Qualquer recomendação desse tipo deve ser unânime, e o juiz seria obrigado a impor.

O presidente dos EUA, Donald Trump, sentado em uma mesa na Casa Branca em frente a uma bandeira americana, fala a jornalistas enquanto assina uma ordem executiva em 20 de janeiro de 2025.
O presidente dos EUA, Donald Trump, assinou dezenas de ordens executivas, incluindo uma chamada para restaurar a pena de morte federalImagem: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

É a primeira vez que o Departamento de Justiça procurou trazer a pena de morte desde Presidente Donald Trump voltou ao cargo em janeiro.

Trump assinou uma ordem executiva em seu primeiro dia de volta ao cargo em janeiro que obriga o departamento a buscar a pena de morte em casos federais, quando aplicável.

Estes foram parado sob o governo Biden.

Trump supervisionou uma série sem precedentes de 13 execuções no final de seu primeiro mandato e tem sido um defensor franco da expansão da pena de morte.

*Nota do editor: DW adere ao código da imprensa alemão, que enfatiza a importância de proteger a privacidade de suspeitos de criminosos ou vítimas e nos obriga a abster -se de revelar nomes completos nesses casos.

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