This is the fourth installment in our series highlighting the key congressional primary elections in the Commonwealth.
The 10th Congressional District contest on the Democratic side doesn’t have the same numbers as PA-03 or PA-07, but it does have some drama as two candidates compete for the opportunity to challenge the Republican incumbent Rep. Scott Perry autumn.
The Pennsylvania primary election will be held on Tuesday, May 19.
Janelle Stelson
- Experience: Television journalist.
- Priorities
- Fight for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
- Make sure the protections guaranteed by Roe become the law of the land again
- Invest in compact businesses and family farms
- Provide us with access to affordable housing and child care
- Support term limits
- Prohibit members of Congress from using confidential stock trading information
- Prohibit members of Congress from becoming lobbyists after they retire
- Fight for a fresh 5-year agricultural law
- Fundraising: : $321,629 from April 1 to April 29. Cash on hand: $3,349,267.
- Education: B.A., University of Puget Sound, 1982
- Quotable: “Arguing is ridiculous. People want something to be done. When things cost too much, let’s get to work. Let’s reach across the aisle, act like Americans, and let’s deal with our problems.”
- Cufflinks: : Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Blue
Justin Douglas
- Experience: Dauphin County Commissioner. Pastor
- Priorities
- Let’s roll back legislation like the Raise the Wage Act to gradually escalate the federal minimum wage
- Guaranteed paid family leave, including maternity and paternity leave
- Repeal Taft Hartley’s harmful regulations that weaken workers’ ability to organize
- roll back legislation like the Oligarch Act and the Equal Tax Act to ensure that the ultra-rich contribute their fair share
- Imposing a significant global minimum tax on corporate profits
- Supports the creation of a universal health care system such as Medicare for All or a comparable model
- A complete ban on internal stock trading for all elected and appointed officials and their immediate family members in all branches of government
- Mandatory blind trusts for the President, Vice President and all executive branch officials, with strict third party enforcement
- Requiring full financial disclosure and transparency of tax returns from presidential and vice presidential candidates and every year while in office
- Make Election Day a federal holiday so that working Americans are not penalized for participating in democracy
- Requiring independent redistricting commissions in all 50 states to end partisan gerrymandering
- Legislatively repealing Citizens United and addressing related decisions such as Buckley v. Valeo that equate money with speech
- Protecting Dreamers by passing the DREAM Act
- Universal background checks on all firearm purchases
- supports restoring and protecting reproductive rights across the country, including access to contraception and in vitro fertilization
- Fundraising: : $16,392 from April 1 to April 29. Cash on hand: $10,594.
- Education: BS, Liberty University, 2006. MA, Liberty University, 2011.
- Quotable: “Government should serve the people, not powerful corporations or special interests. We put people before profit, fighting for accountability, transparency and public policies that put the common good first.”
- Cufflinks: : Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Blue | TikTok
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