Exclusive With Josh Shapiro: 'Our Fundamental Freedoms Are On The Ballot' - The Sunday Show - MSNBC

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Pennsylvania Attorney General and Democratic candidate for governor Josh Shapiro joined Jonathan Capehart for an exclusive interview where Shapiro addressed abortion, crime and the dangerous rhetoric of the GOP. - Aired on 10/30/2022.

[Lovie777]

1. I also think Fetterman will win.......

Haven't heard to much about the high % of young voters in WI and else where.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I also believe that Fetterman will win, voters know and like him, he's already done a good job for PA

Dr. Oz only did a good job for whatever his advertisers were selling...

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Josh Shapiro is a fascinating guy

as he has been able to garner quite a bit of "crossover" votes - both from Republicans and indies when he has run for state-wide office. In fact, when he ran for his current AG position both in 2016 and in 2020, he actually garnered MORE total votes than either Presidential candidate ((D) or (R)) in both 2016 and 2020.

One of my sisters lives in the county just outside of Philly where his election to the County Commissioners helped to break the historic GOP stranglehold for control of that county (this was also the same government entity where Tweety's brother Jim Matthews was a GOP Commissioner at one time).

Shapiro's father is a pediatrician and child advocate.

Here's a good article on Shapiro and his history - https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/09/long-before-run-for-pa-governor-josh-shapiro-seized-political-opportunities.html

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4. Another thing that people don't realize is that if Shapiro loses

... he's out of Pennsylvania government. He's no longer the Attorney General who saved our butts from the Repukes time and time again. I find that terrifying... even more so than it means Mastriano would be the new governor.


On the other hand, if Mastriano loses this, he goes right on being the biggest Repuke a-hole in the PA Senate until his term runs out.

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5. Nope. Just looked it up

And although it seems some sectors in the PA political media have pushed for something akin to having that happen - i.e., a "resign to run" provision for PA, there are only 5 states that actually have that and PA is NOT one of them for state-wide offices.

In fact, the City of Philadelphia DOES have such a rule and the past couple months, we have had 4 City Council members and our City Controller resign their seats to run for next year's mayor's race.

But see this article from back in 2010 -

Reform advocates call for resign-to-run law

Updated: May. 17, 2010, 4:31 a.m.|Published: May. 17, 2010, 3:31 a.m.

By Jan Murphy | [e-mail]



No matter what happens in Tuesday’s primary none of the losing gubernatorial candidates will be without a job on Wednesday. All of them, including the two winning candidates, still can count on their public-funded paychecks that they collect from the elected offices they currently hold.

Republican Tom Corbett has his attorney general’s job and his GOP primary challenger, Sam Rohrer, has his state House seat. On the Democratic ballot, Dan Onorato has his Allegheny County's executive post; Tony Williams, his state Senate seat; Jack Wagner, his auditor general's job; and Joe Hoeffel, his Montgomery County commissioner seat.

But some government reform advocates don't think that is fair to taxpayers. "You can't claim you're working a full-time job on behalf of the people while simultaneously running a full-time campaign on behalf of yourself," said Eric Epstein of RockTheCapital.org.

Tim Potts of Democracy Rising PA said he views getting elected to an office as a contract with the voters. "They gave you a vote in exchange for you to serve [the full term of office]," Potts said. "If you do not serve [the full term], you owe them a better explanation than, 'I just want to take another step to the next rung on the political ladder.' "

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https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2010/05/reform_advocates_call_for_resi.html

So in the (very) unlikely circumstance that Shapiro doesn't win, he'll still be AG for another 2 years. What will need to happen though, is that assuming he wins, there will have to be some kind of appointee to fill the term out until a special election is called and that would be up to the governor regarding when (after some set minimum days after the vacancy).