Valerie Arkoosh, Montgomery County commissioner, physician, jumps into Pennsylvania’s 2022 Senate race
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Montgomery County Commissioner Val Arkoosh announces she s running for U.S. Senate. (File photo by Dan Gleiter | PennLive)
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Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, a career physician and medical school professor who jumped into politics during President Barack Obama’s push for health care reforms, has become the latest entrant in the growing field to replace U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey for a term starting in January 2023.
Toomey has said he won’t seek a third term next year. The race to succeed him is seen as one of a handful that is going to determine majority control of the Senate - now at 50-50 with Vice President Kamala Harris giving the Democrats the working majority - for the second half of President Joe Biden’s term.
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Or better yet, let’s call it what it is: Utterly undemocratic.
County Election Board members Joyce Dombroski-Gebhardt and Keith Gould - both Republicans - made a mockery of their solemn duties and turned Luzerne County election governance into an autocratic, lawless troika of self-serving GOP wingnuts when they ignored advice of an attorney paid to guide them and appointed County Councilman Stephen J. Urban as new board chairman.
To be perfectly clear, this has absolutely nothing to do with which party these three scofflaws belong to. Their action, and their mealy-mouthed, hubris-filled justification for the unjustifiable, would be reprehensible regardless of political affiliation.