21 Facts About Cris Dush

Cris E Dush was born on March 1961 and is an American politician.

From 2014 to 2020, Dush was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, elected from the 66th District, which then encompassed Jefferson County and Indiana County.

Cris Dush was born in March of 1961 in DuBois, Pennsylvania.

Cris Dush graduated from Brookville Area High School in 1979.

Cris Dush was a member of the US Air Force from 1982 to 1990 and a member of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard from 2000 to 2016.

From 1995 until his retirement in January 2012, Cris Dush was employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections as a prison corrections officer.

Cris Dush was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2014, representing the 66th district.

In March 2018, Dush introduced resolutions, co-sponsored by 12 other Republicans state legislators, to impeach four Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices in response to the court's decision in League of Women Voters v Commonwealth that struck down a Republican-drawn Pennsylvania congressional district map as a partisan gerrymander that violated the state constitution's requirement of "free and equal" elections.

Cris Dush made this proposal after the US Supreme Court rejected a request from Republican legislative leaders in Pennsylvania to block the redrawn congressional map.

Cris Dush asserted that the justices' decision constituted "misbehavior in office" and was a judicial infringement on legislative power.

In November 2019, Cris Dush announced he would not seek a fourth term in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, noting a promise he made to only serve three terms when he was first elected in 2014.

In January 2020, Cris Dush said he would seek the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania Auditor General, joining a race against two other Republicans seeking the nomination.

The next month Cris Dush left that race and announced that he would run for the state Senate instead, for the 25th district seat left open by the retirement of Joe Scarnati.

Cris Dush won the race for the seat against Democrat Margie Brown.

In September 2021, Cris Dush chaired a Republican-led committee that approved subpoenas for a wide range of data and personal information on voters.

Cris Dush was appointed to chair of the Senate State Government Committee in 2023 by President pro tempore Kim Ward.

In that role Cris Dush approved of measures to require voter ID, allow for post-election audits, and require more security for ballot drop boxes.

Cris Dush has supported stripping mentally incompetent individuals of their right to vote.

Cris Dush opposed proposals by Democratic Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman to legalize the adult use of marijuana in Pennsylvania.

In 2020, Cris Dush compared Governor Tom Wolf's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania to Nazi Germany.

Cris Dush supported the gubernatorial candidacy of Mastriano in 2022, when he claimed an undefined "they" would steal that election again.